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Final Project Proposal [Makoto • Bao • Zifeng • Su Hwee]

Su Hwee Lim

Thursday, Oct 12, 2017 - 02:40:31 pm

@ Hwee's

Final Project Proposal Google Docs

Categories: Final Project
Tags: Internet Art & Culture
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OBS Technical Test (didn't get posted oops)

Val Lay

Thursday, Oct 12, 2017 - 12:05:13 pm

@ ◢ ◤

Hola.

The technical test ran more smoothly than expected apart from minor connection hiccups and audio levels.

Location – Siewhua and I found a spot in the Thursday classroom for our desktop terminal as we knew everyone else left the class for other locations – leaving more bandwidth for us 🙂

Audio levels – Staying put was good as the connection went smoothly. Read more →

Categories: Process
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Randall Packer
Excellent... thanks!
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Semester Project Proposal with Cher See, Joan & Xin Feng

Hannah

Tuesday, Oct 10, 2017 - 06:10:36 pm

@ Hannah Kwah

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-ms5P_3iKrDdlnDSnVZaAEnSima4mJiuhyt5Ag6zLYs/edit?usp=sharing

Group members: Cher See, Hannah, Joan & Xin Feng

Categories: Final Project
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Hyperessay #1

ʍıu zɐʍ

Thursday, Sep 28, 2017 - 05:56:52 pm

@ CHEESE

In the past few posts, I’ve gone at great lengths to discuss about the technicalities of open broadcasting. This time, however, I shall instead talk about the psychological components of open broadcasting and interactions.

When live streaming on Facebook for the first time, I was initially hesitant to even start as I’m the kind of person that does not enjoy putting Read more →

Categories: Hyperessay
Tags: hole in space | hyperessay | videofreex
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Randall Packer
Winzaw, I really enjoy your very honest and sincere way of speaking your mind. It is a great virtue!! And I was very impressed with the way you described your process in such detail, fascinating in fact as you lead us through the complexities of making sense of the technology in an effort to negotiate a coherent work with your partner. That's really what I like to see, that students are making an effort to push the boundaries, even when the odds are difficult. And you had a true epiphany at the end, with the audio feedback loop, and the realization that creating generative art might just very well be your thing. Brilliant!! There are a few things missing from your essay I wanted to bring to your attention. You did make reference to two of the works, which I thought you did in a very interesting and personal way, but I would have liked to see you dig a little deeper into the many artists, artworks, concepts and ideas we have plowed through this semester. Just as you picked up on Jon Cates' generative work, as well as the social interaction of Hole in Space, were there any other works that caught your attention, such as the World's Longest Collaborative Sentence or the Videofreex or our Adobe Connect session, the many micro-projects, etc., that might have expanded your thinking? That said, I am extremely impressed with your attention to process and I think that will serve you will in your work.
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Hyperessay #1: Concepts in Social Broadcasting

Tiffany Anne

Thursday, Sep 28, 2017 - 05:24:09 pm

@ Tiffany Rosete

Social Broadcasting = Social Media + Broadcasting

‘In the moment’ Realness

Television Programmes like ‘Live’ news and sports events that are broadcasted ‘Live’ on television, evoke a certain excitement and amusement in people. Proof of this lies in the collection of  hilarious memes and compilations of news anchor fails, immortalised in the Internet.

‘LIVE’ videos hold a certain authenticity due to it being Read more →

Categories: Hyperessay
Tags: Alter-egos | collective narrative | cross-streaming | facebook live | many to many | performance art | social broadcasting | third space
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Randall Packer
Tiffany, you captured so many interesting ideas in your Hyperessay. I very much like your style of online writing, a kind of stream-of-consciousness journey through concepts, quotes, artworks and observations. Your writing is very compelling and you captured many aspects of social broadcasting that were crucial to our understanding, including the live nature of broadcasting, the many-to-many quality of the social, and how these two ideas meld together into what we refer to as social broadcasting. I felt this was all leading very well to your reference to the cross-stream project, but I would have liked to have seen more of your thoughts on the nature of this project, as it was informed by the ideas you expressed leading up to it. Aside from latencies and the complexities of streaming, do you feel you were able to make possible the social aspect of broadcasting? In terms of the potential of what is yet to be explored, what might this be? Do you have any specific thoughts as to where an expanded use of Facebook Live might lead? I think had you expanded on this you would have had the perfect conclusion to an essay that had many of the key building blocks to describing and assessing our work so far in the area of social broadcasting.
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[H Y PE RR E S S AYY] - Colourful Digits

Isaac Chu

Thursday, Sep 28, 2017 - 04:54:16 pm

@ Chuwypotter

Colourful Digits 

Internet Art. Freedom. Expressionism. Equality. Devilish. – These are topics that I could come up with when I think “Internet Art“. What. is. Internet Art?

Allow me to share what I initially thought of Internet Art. I thought that there wasn’t any meaning to it and found that it was for the most part “artistic” or “cool-in-a-different-way-kinda”. Internet Art, did Read more →

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Hyperessay #1: Concepts in Social Broadcasting

Anam Musta'ein

Thursday, Sep 28, 2017 - 04:16:30 pm

@ Amazing Anam

It is amazing how fast our world is evolving every single day with the emergence of new technology and innovations in telecommunication. Physical and social activities that we once thought could only be carried out in the real world are slowly shifting into the virtual, and perhaps, transcending its possibilities. Internet Art & Culture has brought me to new levels Read more →

Categories: Hyperessay
Tags: Broadcasting | Hyperessay | Social
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Randall Packer
Excellent Anam! I was very pleased to see how you embraced the idea of collective narrative, and it was clear from your references to Hole in Space and the Collective Body project that you fully connected the idea to the artworks we studied. Yes, collective narrative is very much a part of the culture we live in today, and of course, the abundance of social media interactions we engage in. Your analysis makes me wonder how you might look at social media, would you consider it an ongoing narrative in the way other projects we looked at were new forms of narrative, such as the World's Longest Collaborative Sentence. You might want to consider this work, a very early form of social media, as an example of Collective Narrative. And I thought your thoughts on the streaming project were well supported by your discussion of collective narrative. My only comment is that it might have strengthened the ending if you could have defined social broadcasting more throughly in the context of collective narrative. You had already done the background work, it was just a matter of stating very clearly of what "social broadcast really is...", the many-to-many interactions of broadcast participants constructing narrative in dialogue with one another, or something like that. Very good essay, well written, and extremely thoughtful.
Randall Packer

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HyperEssay #1

Nicholas Makoto

Thursday, Sep 28, 2017 - 09:44:36 am

@ Grandma Joe

Technology, probably since it’s inception has been blasted by people of every generation. Kids aren’t going out as much anymore, people can’t go a couple of minutes without having to fiddle with their phones, scroll another page, watch another video. These are all things we’ve heard one way or another, but I believe that it’s never such a black-and-white issue. Read more →

Categories: Hyperessay
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Randall Packer
So many interesting and thoughtful ideas in your Hyperessay! First I must point out this excellent statement you made:
The interaction between the ‘us’ the streamer and audience is where the real adventure is at.
I believe you perfectly captured the essence of social broadcasting here. Broadcasting is a one-way monologue, as you pointed out in the Jon Cates piece, but social broadcasting is a dialogue, such as you referenced in Hole in Space. And yes, this is indeed where the adventure begins. I would have used the term engagement, but now I think adventure might be a better word! One thing you said about Hole in Space that I find very compelling, is that it was more of an interaction between individuals than between groups. I think I understand why you said that, and I think it's because most of the interaction was between one individual on side, and another individual on the other side, rather than between the people on one particular side. Although there were group games being played, such as charades, I think you are right that it was primarily a one-to-one interaction and people were not necessarily engaging in a many-to-many fashion with each other on either side. I also found very interesting your reference to Twitch as a way of understanding the interaction in your Cross Stream project. It was primarily a one-way interaction of reaction, rather than a two-way interaction between the viewer and the broadcaster. I would be interested in dissecting this further, not that your analysis was incomplete, but because it is such an important aspect of the constraints of social broadcasting. This is an excellent essay and you showed highly original thought and research. I was also quite impressed with your conclusion: despite all the various modes of communications we have at our disposal, will we end up alone in the end?
Randall Packer
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[Internet Art & Culture] Hyperessay - Concepts in Social Broadcasting

Dina

Thursday, Sep 28, 2017 - 09:43:15 am

@ Putri Dina

First Impression This idea of live streaming for introverts like myself can be very intimidating. You are presenting yourself out into the world of Internet without knowing who are looking at you behind their screens and what are their intentions for staying to watch you make a fool out of yourself. However, why has live streaming becoming a popular option for Read more →

Categories: Hyperessay
Tags: Hyperessay
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Randall Packer
Your Hyperessay is amazing! I am so glad to discover this article you have referenced, regarding the transition from the Information Age to the Experience Age. I think I have always been in the Experience Age! I can see more clearly now that our study of social broadcasting, in terms of its live nature, is to focus on the immediacy of the experience, as opposed to the accumulation of information that is discussed in the article. And you are right, the immediacy of the live broadcast can be disconcerting, awkward, and difficult to comprehend who is on the other side, but in fact, it is in the excitement of the here and now that we have the experience. And yes, even Jon Cates is engaged in an experiential approach to his performance as he multi-tasks and describe his process as it unfolds. I think that is the very definition of experience, because he is not so concerned with gathering as he is with expressing, and bring the viewer directly into the moment of this expression. And I fully appreciate how you applied this thinking to your piece with Tiffany, commenting on the way in which her image cross-streamed across the two videos, creating yet another experiential moment that is directly tied to the live. Congratulations on a highly original Hyperessay! Excellent work.
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Cross Stream Broadcast - Actual

Su Hwee Lim

Thursday, Sep 28, 2017 - 12:40:25 am

@ Hwee's

When I was the mobile streamer

https://www.facebook.com/nicholas.makoto/videos/10155805688852698/

https://www.facebook.com/suhwee/videos/10155088242323403/

Cross stream broadcast was a collaboration with my classmate Makoto. We wanted to explore the possibility of Facebook Live using filters that can help to enhance our ADM safari’s idea. While combining with OBS, such as overlaying the animal gif and small photos to further emphasis on the theme.

We also designed the interface in Read more →

Categories: Micro-Project
Tags: Desktop streaming | Internet Art & Culture | Mobile streaming
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