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Einstein’s Dreams
I never understood spacetime or the theory of relativity, and I still don’t, but “Einstein’s Dreams” provides entertaining hypotheticals for time that question our experience of reality. Continue reading “Einstein’s Dreams”
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Using Virtual Reality to Talk to the Elephant
In order to speak to my subconscious, I looked to virtual reality. I thought that looking at the real world through a headset, while messing with the image in between, could provide an experience that began to separate the head from the body.
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Midterm Progress
This week, we started test three concepts. Continue reading “Midterm Progress”
Seeing / Listening to Metadata
It’s strange how statistics can represent something like a relationship. I analyzed text messages with my girlfriend and saw stories in the data.
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Nothing – Midterm Concepts
Collecting My Digital Footprint
I began the week by collecting a bunch of different data sets about myself: my Apple Health data, my Google Export, and my iMessage history.
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Listening – Week 2
I resumed work recording my stomach by trying to create a better connector for my microphone to my stethoscope. I bought some kind of brass pipe coupler and taped it to the mic. On the other end, I retrofitted my old connector to fit into the brass pipe, allowing the stethoscope tube to be threaded through while blocking out some of the outside noise. This seemed a little better but not good enough.
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Seeing is Forgetting The Name of The Thing One Sees
Robert Irwin is a master in illusion. For him, “aesthetic perception itself [is] the pure subject of art. Art exist[s] not in objects but in a way of seeing.” It requires an active viewer to take it in and, hopefully, become altered, even if only for a second. Irwin induces a change in perception through his work, making the viewer reexamine their environment – which includes themselves. He believes the role of artists is to prod the relationship between the mind and the body, as two parts that are “equally dependent and mutually exclusive”[source]. This to me is the real magic of art; it can force an awakening of the mind and the body as separate things. When you become aware of the whole of you, in the environment, it produces a jolt of exaltation. It’s the most spiritual act I’ve experienced.
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