11/29/2017 0 Comments Inter-Relationships ProjectionProcedureA group of 10 to 15 participants submit responses to a questionnaire which are then projected onto a living space. Before entering the room, participants were asked to fill out a web-based form asking questions about the space that they live in. These answers were then compiled on a server into a list, which was projected onto the walls of the space in Futura Bold Oblique. The participants were brought into this space immediately after completing the online questionnaire and experienced their responses projected and scrolling up the walls. Duration of about 15 minutes. This project is designed as a web application that allows for the collection of responses, compilation of those responses into a queue, and then a separate web client that displays the responses. The process is a combination of Javascript/jQuery client-side visuals and server side php scripts. Submitting a response delivers the string to a general server-side queue with a POST method. When displaying the words, a sequence of ajax GET requests are made, reading from the queue and delivering the strings to the client, which are then processed as a DOM objects and animated and displayed. The process is in real-time, and allows for more new responses to show up as words are being displayed. The participate section starts here: christianbroms.com/projection/participate-start.html and the word display is a separate page available here: christianbroms.com/projection/words-display.html (takes 60 sec to start)
The code for this project is open source and available here: github.com/CBR0MS/Word-Projection
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11/29/2017 0 Comments Non-Human CONSCIOUSNESSDescriptionThis project is a way of observing and responding to a form of non-human consciousnesses. For five days in a row, I returned to the same tree in Shenley Park and took photographs of it. The tree is shaped in every way by humans; its trunk is carved with a patchwork of slashes and gouges, it grows in the shadow of a bridge, telephone lines run through its branches, and plastic litter covers the ground around. I shot a total of four rolls of film over the duration of my observation, deciding on a total of ten images. Each is printed on 8"x10" photo paper, some developed with distortions and manipulations.
9/11/2017 0 Comments what do i think?The question “As you begin this new part of your life, what are you leaving behind?” struck me as particularly interesting. The “new part of your life” suggested college, but college is more of a continuation of prior academics. It could also mean living on your own, or leaving your hometown. However, I took it to mean something bigger than all of these- the unknown. All the way through high school, and even before, there was a clear goal: college. I always knew that this was the next step. However, now there is no next step, at least not yet. What is being left behind is the knowledge of the future. There is something more personal being left behind as well. That is my own views and beliefs, which are constantly changing. I fully expect to leave college with a different philosophy, and I wanted to capture this. When brainstorming for this project I became stuck on the idea of an object. What object could I possibly make that would encompass all of the changing views and unknown future that I have? I arrived at an idea. I began by creating a text file on my computer. Over the course of three days, I developed a large collection of my current set of beliefs, motivations, observations, and personal philosophy. I then began removing extra sentences and words to try and reveal the core ideas that I was trying to convey. In the end, I reduced a few thousand words into a few hundred. The text file contained a representation of who I am now and how I think. Finally, at 12:00 AM on Sept. 11, I performed a seven pass erase; essentially burying the digital data under seven layers of random ones and zeros. The data is never really gone, only buried and impossible to recover. The file effectively no longer exists, save for the documentation of the process. For a brief few days, there existed one place, outside of myself that contained a reflection of my views. That place is now gone. In a few weeks, months, or years, my views will have changed, and it is likely I will not remember how I used to think. Buried under seven layers of random data, this text file will still exist, completely inaccessible. |
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