Over the past thirteen weeks, Binaisha and I have worked towards a media art project that explores the concept of ‘Futures’ through language. Focusing on the emergence of emoji as a digital language and how that has affected the way we communicate today. Our project started as a recreation of Nastya Ptichek‘s work, who created…
Throughout this semester I have been following Tom McGill’s exploration of the use of emoji in modern conversation through his short film, ‘The Text’. ‘The Text’ is a film that follows the ensued awkwardness as a university student accidentally sends a kiss emoji to a female member of his group. In the initial pitch, Tom…
Last week we discovered that the corridor effect was too confusing and the audience only focused on one side. So, we tested a single split screen to show both faces at once in one projection. This worked well and enabled the audience to see both sides of the conversation as well as the reactions to…
This week we played with the spatial aspects of our work, experimenting with the display of the content. We set up two projectors onto two screens on opposite ends of the black box, playing opposite sides of the conversation. We discovered that it took up a lot of space and viewers would look predominately at…
In this week’s workshop, we recorded the script we developed last week and edited the video to include subtitles and projected it up onto the screen. We were happy with the content only needing minor adjustments in quality of the lighting and sound. However, we weren’t sure where else to go from here and move…
From last week’s discussion, we decided to move back to a more conversational approach. However, we struggled to write our own interesting conversations without being cliche or too specific, so we decided to continue with dialogue from tv shows and movies. We looked at Friends, Seinfeld and The Office but ultimately decided on The Office…
This week Binaisha and I decided to try some of the different experimentations developed from last week’s discussion, in order to see what did and didn’t work. We looked at different short stories and speeches to create more of a narrative. First, we used ‘The Cat in the Hat’, we took four pages from the…
During this weeks, workshop Binaisha and I set up the video we had recorded during the postgrad week as our first iteration of the project pitch. When creating the video, we had decided to play around with the idea of creating dialogue through emoji’s using our own conversations but discovered that it lacked the flow…
For this project i will be working in collaboration with Binaisha Haria. Initial concept An exploration of how communication has changed through the development of new technology. Specifically, how has emoji changed the way people interact and communicate with each other. This relates heavily to our practice of emerging technologies exploring how emoji are being…
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Throughout this project, our goal was to design the content management plan for the Facebook page of MSU student exchange program with IESEG School of Management in Paris, France. For this, four competitors were analysed; Washington Business Week (WBW), ESSEC Luxury Brand Management (ESSEC), IES Abroad Paris BIA (IES) and ISA Study Abroad-Lille…
This week we spent some time doing material research. We were asked to look for an artist or maker whose work usefully explores an aspect of the theme ‘futures’ and whose practice informs or resonates with our own. Binaisha and I share the same practice and wanted to go in a similar direction to explore…
In week 4, we visited two exhibitions in Sydney: MCA COLLECTION: TODAY TOMORROW YESTERDAY at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Sounding the Future at the University of Technology Sydney Gallery. The idea for this excursion was to look at how the works in the exhibitions were presented, executed and created. We looked specifically at…
This week we thought about the concepts of theory and practice and identifying the links they have with each other. As a class, we established that the concept of theory is a set of discourse aligned to the interaction of the practice. We discussed how theory is a systematic way of thinking and can be…
This week we looked at the relationships between art, craft and research, paying particular attention to the difference between art and craft. “Art is an expression of imagination, feelings and ideas in a visual form, with aesthetic and emotional value. It is an open-ended, unstructured form of work that cannot be reproduced. Craft is an…
Our last two experimentations were quite successful. We fine-tuned the video and audio, creating an original poem to match our work. When playing with the placement of the projections we stumbled across an interesting accidental aspect of ghosting through the sheet. We also decided to move away from our created soundboards as they didn’t add…
Through My Eyes! 