aging algorithms antiracism black box capitalism class-struggle collaborative tools computing cybertext decolonisation deep fake design politics dreams ecology education electronic literature ethics feminism identity inequality institutional critique machine learning marxism mechanical turk media theory microaggressions narrative neurodiversity pedagogy physical presence pop-culture post-digital power presence propaganda psychotherapy sound speculative thinking storytelling time transmedia validation voice wikis writing
- Deep Fake Aging Effects
A behind-the-scenes look into our latest commercial and a tutorial on how to do the aging effect using Faceapp, Ebsynth,… Continue reading Deep Fake Aging Effects - Microaggression Theory: Influence and Implications
Gina C. Torino (Editor), David P. Rivera (Editor), Christina M. Capodilupo (Editor), Kevin L. Nadal (Editor), Derald Wing Sue (Editor) https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/Microaggression+Theory%3A+Influence+and+Implications-p-9781119466642 p.13 What can… Continue reading Microaggression Theory: Influence and Implications - Matters of Care : Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds
To care can feel good, or it can feel bad. It can do good, it can oppress. But what is… Continue reading Matters of Care : Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds - A (very good) Brief History of Computer Games Graphics
From naïve origins to the rise of cinematic realism: an account of graphical milestones in video games. - Pluriverse
Pluriverse A Post-Development Dictionary Edited by Ashish Kothari, Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Federico Demaria, and Alberto Acosta Tulika Books Pluriverse:… Continue reading Pluriverse - Bell Hooks – Engaged Pedagogy
Bell Hooks is known for her feminist thought and interesting work on pedagogy as an art. Here is a passage… Continue reading Bell Hooks – Engaged Pedagogy - Theatre of the Oppressed
“The purpose of Theatre of the Oppressed is to rehumanize humanity.” — Augusto Boal Theatre of the Oppressed What is… Continue reading Theatre of the Oppressed - Verbatim Theatre
Theatre that incorporates the words of real people Verbatim theatre, as Will Hammond and Dan Steward point out in their… Continue reading Verbatim Theatre - Carey Young – institutional critique – performance artist
http://www.careyyoung.com/ Carey Young (born 1970, lives and works in London) has developed her artistic practice from a cross-fertilization of disciplines… Continue reading Carey Young – institutional critique – performance artist - Speacedeck – browser based collaborative ideation tool
https://spacedeck.com/ https://github.com/spacedeck This is the free and open-source version of Spacedeck, a web-based, real-time, collaborative whiteboard application with rich… Continue reading Speacedeck – browser based collaborative ideation tool - THE XANADU® PARALLEL UNIVERSE — Visibly Connected Pages and Documents for a New Kind of Writing
https://www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu/ IT WAS THE most radical computer dream of the hacker era. Ted Nelson’s Xanadu project was supposed to be the… Continue reading THE XANADU® PARALLEL UNIVERSE — Visibly Connected Pages and Documents for a New Kind of Writing - Electronic Literature Collection
Electronic Literature Collection A Publication of the Electronic Literature Organization http://collection.eliterature.org/ - Audre Lorde
1934–1992 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/audre-lorde A self-described “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,” Audre Lorde dedicated both her life and her creative talent to… Continue reading Audre Lorde - SonicActs: AI as an Act of Thought — Dr. Ramon Amaro
An increasingly large proportion of human reality is now lived through algorithms. While our relationship with AI is undoubtedly important… Continue reading SonicActs: AI as an Act of Thought — Dr. Ramon Amaro - Pedagogy of the Oppressed — Paulo Freire
Pedagogy of the Oppressed First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English… Continue reading Pedagogy of the Oppressed — Paulo Freire - Design Justice | Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need — Sasha Costanza-Chock
Design Justice Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need By Sasha Costanza-Chock – https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/design-justice An exploration of how design might… Continue reading Design Justice | Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need — Sasha Costanza-Chock - Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code — Ruha Benjamin
https://www.ruhabenjamin.com/race-after-technology From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce… Continue reading Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code — Ruha Benjamin - Fictive Universities
The University of Bantshire Throbbing with knowledge since ’69 For literally months, @BantshireUni has been synonymous with balls-ups and faux pas in… Continue reading Fictive Universities - Accesible Wikis
Free We Built a Collaborative Documentation Site. Deploy Your Own With the Push of a Button. Library is searchable and… Continue reading Accesible Wikis - About the project
Marginalised Voices: Neurodiversity and Inclusivity in the Design Process — A Speculative Design Exploration For this project, our group’s aim… Continue reading About the project - China’s ‘mermaid descendants’ weave final garments from skin of fish
China’s ‘mermaid descendants’ weave final garments from skin of fish TONGJIANG, China (Reuters) – You Wenfeng, who belongs to China’s… Continue reading China’s ‘mermaid descendants’ weave final garments from skin of fish - Public space interventionCreate an intervention in public space which changes perception, use or behaviour in this space.
- NO BRIEF
fun experiment using ambiguous religious, technological and pop culture references - COBrief CO -connect -contrast -compare
- From order to chaos – individual practice evaluation
Brief Think about your practice and use the winter holiday to position yourself in the creative world. Consider how would… Continue reading From order to chaos – individual practice evaluation - Negentropy
Premisses From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Not to be confused with Entropy and life § Negative entropy. “Syntropy” redirects here. For… Continue reading Negentropy - Power of Presence / Presence of Power
Brief the assignment was to think about ‘Power of Presence / Presence of Power’ Outcome I asked a colleague to… Continue reading Power of Presence / Presence of Power - Dialectic of Pop
In the first major philosophical treatise on the subject, Agnès Gayraud explores all the paradoxes of pop—its inauthentic authenticity, its… Continue reading Dialectic of Pop - Freud’s Method for Interpreting Dreams
extract from: https://www.freud.org.uk/learn/discover-psychoanalysis/the-interpretation-of-dreams/freuds-method-for-interpreting-dreams/ Freud was careful to distance his method of dream interpretation from popular methods. Dreams do have meanings The… Continue reading Freud’s Method for Interpreting Dreams - CHS Dissertation Ideas
Themes My dissertation could be at the intersection of some or all of the topics below: Physics The Law of… Continue reading CHS Dissertation Ideas - Laruelle: Against the Digital – Alexander R. Galloway
Laruelle: Against the Digital Alexander R. Galloway Series: Posthumanities Copyright Date: 2014 Published by: University of Minnesota Press Pages: 304 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctt1287nfc … Continue reading Laruelle: Against the Digital – Alexander R. Galloway - Storytelling and Storyboarding
Outcome We experimented with the idea of reversing a video and changing the meaning of the same shot just by… Continue reading Storytelling and Storyboarding - Moral Panic
A moral panic is a feeling of fear spread among many people that some evil threatens the well-being of society.[1][2] It is “the process of arousing social… Continue reading Moral Panic - Position and Voice
Activity ONE What is the author’s topic? & 2. What is the author’s opinion on this topic?… Continue reading Position and Voice - The Computational Propaganda Research Project
The Computational Propaganda Research Project (COMPROP) investigates the interaction of algorithms, automation and politics. This work includes analysis of how… Continue reading The Computational Propaganda Research Project - Design Without – create/design/a new default/standard
Outcome Group activity — I asked everyone in the classroom to say what should the current year be, based on… Continue reading Design Without – create/design/a new default/standard - AI as a Black Box
Extract from: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604087/the-dark-secret-at-the-heart-of-ai/ The workings of any machine-learning technology are inherently more opaque, even to computer scientists, than a hand-coded… Continue reading AI as a Black Box - Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Technology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of… Continue reading Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other - Sleep Is Literally a Deep Clean for Your Brain
https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/new-study-sleep-is-literally-a-deep-clean-for-your-brain.html “What she discovered was that during non-REM sleep, large, slow waves of cerebrospinal fluid were washing over the brain.… Continue reading Sleep Is Literally a Deep Clean for Your Brain - Sound Workshop
Outcome We created a storyline based on an imaginary journey from heaven to hell using natural sounds, music and AI-generated… Continue reading Sound Workshop - Noam Chomsky on Jordan Peterson, Post-Modernism, Foucault and Ali G
- Gestalt therapy
extracted from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt_therapy Gestalt therapy is an existential/experiential form of psychotherapy which emphasizes personal responsibility, and focuses upon the individual’s experience in the present moment,… Continue reading Gestalt therapy - Sleep Monitoring Software
SEV – Open source software for sleep analysis https://web.stanford.edu/~hyatt4/software/sev The SEV is a MATLAB toolbox built for viewing biological data… Continue reading Sleep Monitoring Software - Martian Wrinkle Cream Ad
Outcome Research I decided to explore the cliches used to market cosmetic industry products regarding the effects of gravity on… Continue reading Martian Wrinkle Cream Ad - Digital Narrative Lecture
- Digital White
Digital White is many important things that are part of my everyday life as a ‘creative’ professional and student. It… Continue reading Digital White - Anarchy in the classroom
Outcome I hid a Bluetooth speaker in the classroom’s ceiling and played a 30-minute audio file intended to disturb the… Continue reading Anarchy in the classroom - Manifesto of the Communist Party by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels February 1848
Manifesto of the Communist Party by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels.pdf - The Culture of the Copy — Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimiles
How is it that the ethical dilemmas at the heart of so many fields of endeavor have become inseparable from… Continue reading The Culture of the Copy — Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimiles - Kurt Vonnegut, Shape of Stories, plus other storyline classifications
Kurt Vonnegut, Shape of Stories Vladimir Propp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Propp Vladimir Propp was born on 29 April 1895 in Saint Petersburg to an… Continue reading Kurt Vonnegut, Shape of Stories, plus other storyline classifications - Mind the Gap Workshop
- Web VR Workshop
https://glitch.com/~start-aframe – starting example https://glitch.com/edit/#!/comfortable-pruner?path=index.html:35:48 Framework used: https://aframe.io/ REFERENCES ASSETS –>https://aframe.io/docs/0.9.0/core/asset-management-system.html MATERIALS –>https://aframe.io/docs/0.9.0/components/material.html 3D MODELS –>https://aframe.io/docs/0.9.0/components/gltf-model.htmlhttps://aframe.io/docs/0.9.0/components/obj-model.html SOUND –>https://aframe.io/docs/0.9.0/components/sound.html#sidebar - Alien Language
Outcome I presented to the class a local grocery shopping bag containing three food jars with my own urine, faeces… Continue reading Alien Language - Marshall McLuhan: The Medium is the Message
“The medium is the message” is a phrase coined by Marshall McLuhan introduced in McLuhan’s book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man,… Continue reading Marshall McLuhan: The Medium is the Message - what-is-post-digital
About APRJA Workshops & Newspapers Search for: a peer-reviewed journal about_ What is ‘Post-digital’? Posted on 2014/01/23 by Geoff Cox Download article… Continue reading what-is-post-digital - Photogrammetry Workshop
[advanced_iframe src=”//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photogrammetry” width=”100%” height=”600″] - Arduino Workshop
View this post on Instagram Today I made a button turn an LED on… as well as off… Continue reading Arduino Workshop - Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days (or 1 hour)
An integral part of our Unit 1 collaborative work has resulted from a group work method suggested by our tutor… Continue reading Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days (or 1 hour) - Zhuangzi on reality, dreams and mediation
Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi comments on the relativist aspects of reality mediation using dreams analogies (Extracted from https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zhuangzi/) When we have… Continue reading Zhuangzi on reality, dreams and mediation - Sheperds Bush Green Area Workshop
- A museum experience for all – Workshop
The brief was to visit the Design Museum’s Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition and further explore museum and exhibition augmentation through… Continue reading A museum experience for all – Workshop