China’s ‘mermaid descendants’ weave final garments from skin of fish TONGJIANG, China (Reuters) – You Wenfeng, who belongs to China’s tiny Hezhen ethnic group, is one of the few people in her community who can still make clothing from the skin of fish. She was not yet born when her kinsmen were thrown into labor… Continue reading China’s ‘mermaid descendants’ weave final garments from skin of fish
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Public space intervention
Create 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
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Brief 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 you bring order from chaos. Response I was inspired by Lauren Lee McCarthy’s – Social Turkers project where she employed Amazon Mechanical Turk workers to direct her actions in real-time, during dates. After analysing various… 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 other uses, see Syntropy (software). In information theory and statistics, negentropy is used as a measure of distance to normality. The concept and phrase “negative entropy” was introduced by Erwin Schrödinger in his 1944 popular-science book What is Life?[1] Later, Léon Brillouin shortened the phrase to negentropy.[2][3] In 1974, Albert… 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 connect me to the class through Skype and to put their laptop on a chair as if I were a participant. The colleague also carried the laptop around to allow me to experience all of… 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 mass production of emotion and personal resonance, its repetitive novelty, its precision engineering of seduction—and calls for pop (in its broadest sense, encompassing all genres of popular recorded music) to be recognised as a modern… 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 science of Freud’s time regarded dreams as meaningless. The theory that dreams are just random by-products of the brain’s functioning during REM sleep is still maintained by some scientists today. It is also the theory… 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 the Lever and the importance of the fulcrum’s position in relation to the ‘geometrical’ centre of an ideological/argument axis Argument constructed based on this article: https://www.math.nyu.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/Lever/LeverLaw.html “Why is it that small forces can move great… Continue reading CHS Dissertation Ideas