DATAMINING THE SELF

To study the way is to study the self 

to study the self is to forget the self

and to forget the self is to awaken to the ten thousand things.

 - Dogen Zenji

DUE Oct. 22nd (10points)

Your assignment for this weekend is to collect data about your self, a journal of sorts. You can choose what types of data you collect. It could be you record everything you eat in the next 5 days, or you record activities you do every hour, or maybe you go through your home and record all that you own, or count the steps it takes to get from place to place, or maybe it is all about geographical locations you travel to from day to day, or numbers you interact with. I then want these posted to the blog in plan text for discussion Oct. 22nd. As a heads up you will be turning this data into your 3rd assignment.

DATA VISUALIZATION

EXPLORING NEW POTENTIALS OF SOFTWARE

ANIMATED GIFFS & PROCESSING:

http://francoisegamma.computersclub.org/

Gif psychedelia & Gif extremity

http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2010/05/07/dvdp-3/

http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2010/01/03/dvdp/

http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2009/12/07/david-ope/
SUBVERSION
ASCII ART and other examples in class.

DUPLICATION | EXPLORATION

SIGNAL PROCESSING:

VideoGrams by Gary Hill

FAIL GRACEFULLY (Serious Play)

READ THIS ARTICLE (<<Click Here)-\/\/\/-
Discuss on Wed.

"Software interfaces define the boundaries of our work, but only exploration into the margins of these tools, beyond the intended use pattern can really expose these boundaries. In that sense in order for us to brake out of the design paradigm embedded in software we must use it "the wrong way" By all means, designers should be hackers, do what we're not supposed to, make your software fail, crash, burn... find the exploits of our tools, it's the only healthy and true relationship we can have with them. When we reach the boundaries and have learned enough, we can go and make our own tools, explore their failures, and excel within them. Like Offf's poster-child, Joshua Davis, who has built his custom made design tools and has developed his entire aesthetic style around these generative 'managed failures'." -Excerpt from Article