http://www.turbulence.org/
First artwork I looked at:
"The Essential Guide to PerformingMichael Mandiberg by Michael Mandibergwith funds from the Jerome Foundation andthe National Endowment for the ArtsPart user's manual, part experimental self-portrait, The Guide is an on-line tutorial that teaches the user the details of performing Michael Mandiberg's persona. It is part of The Exchange Program, a series of exchanges in which Michael and nine others switch lives with one another for ten days. The guide-as-user-manual turns personality into procedures, situations, and props. "
This project was interesting, to be honest I’m not sure it really happened, that these people changed their lives with another person. The site had collected diary’s and photo’s and questionarres from the people who experienced the ‘swap’. I liked the site, the pieces of the event that had already happened. I got the feel that I was interacting with the complex narrative that was taking place by searching through the evidence of the event. The mysterious nature of the person who took over the others life, both I and the friends and family will never know who they really are. One of the elements I most enjoyed was the response from friends and family involved, some got into it, others seemed quite disturbed. Amazing the amount of individualism can come across in a simple questionnaire. Overall it was an interesting interactive art piece slash social experiment, challenging the familiar and exploring the boundaries of identity.
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Whoops
I nearly forgot about my little blogger. I shall post some more!
Okay, The first project.
Things that didn't work so well;
A lot of people became frustrated, particularly on the third or fourth page where there was little direction, you had to click around to find a way out of there. Most people gave up.
I was aiming to keep this problem to a minimum by having both a visual and a textual type narrative. The images from clicking around were meant to be aesthetically pleasing, so the viewer felt rewarded rather than hard done by. You could also read the different texts throughout the project and appreciate the visual nature of the concepts created in the text. If you were super smart you could connect how the images manipulate the content of the text, and as you go 'deeper' into the narrative, the text takes on image like qualities. I felt that the project did challenge these boundaries, both with creative writing in a slipstream sense and the relationship between the text and image. I also aimed to challenge the interactivity of the user, the writing style incorporated addressing the reader directly to hopefully force them to reflect on their role as a reader.
Perhaps this was a little to confronting and therefore why people gave up.
Okay, The first project.
Things that didn't work so well;
A lot of people became frustrated, particularly on the third or fourth page where there was little direction, you had to click around to find a way out of there. Most people gave up.
I was aiming to keep this problem to a minimum by having both a visual and a textual type narrative. The images from clicking around were meant to be aesthetically pleasing, so the viewer felt rewarded rather than hard done by. You could also read the different texts throughout the project and appreciate the visual nature of the concepts created in the text. If you were super smart you could connect how the images manipulate the content of the text, and as you go 'deeper' into the narrative, the text takes on image like qualities. I felt that the project did challenge these boundaries, both with creative writing in a slipstream sense and the relationship between the text and image. I also aimed to challenge the interactivity of the user, the writing style incorporated addressing the reader directly to hopefully force them to reflect on their role as a reader.
Perhaps this was a little to confronting and therefore why people gave up.
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