Premise After reading Krzysztof Wodiczko’s Critical Vehicles, I was really moved by how he uses monuments to speak for the unseens and the forgotten. For my project I would like to use instead spaces of interstice, corners and nooks hidden in plain sight. I imagine them as silent watchers, like guardians, catching stray thoughts and remembering what has been cast… Read more →
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Why we need to analyse games In this book How Games Moves Us: Emotion By Design, Katherine Isbister places importance on how we as a community should raise our literacy in game appreciation because games are so popular . And I agree that this is important to us as game designers because, if our audience is smarter than this opens… Read more →
It is fascinating to see how a book in a context of revolutionary anti-establishment Paris from 50 years ago seem so applicable in our modern day setting. You begin to wonder what literature being produced now that is being brushed off is doing the same for the times ahead of us. In essence The Society of the spectacle is a… Read more →
l’art pour l’art. Beauty has always been traditionally associated with the arts and although I do enjoy aesthetic art, I have always found it a waste when art doesn’t do more. Last semester, when tasked to create, this was my response. Let it Ignite passion’s light. Let your art fill the soul. Let it fight the good fight. Remember the… Read more →
As this is a very very long reading that is also super complicated I shall try to pick out points within each section of the reading that has piqued my interest and how it relates to me personally. Performing Public Space (Robert Venturi 1966) “I think we are still stuck with this idea of the street and the plaza as… Read more →
Reading Huhtamo’s article on the Archaeology of the Screen, you start to realise just how much we overlook in media art practice. As Erkki Huhtamo states in the opening paragraph of his other earlier article “Screen Test: Why do we need an Archaeology of the Screen”, starring at screens have become part of everyday life. And as screens transitioned into… Read more →
Minimalism without a doubt is an art movement’s whose effects has permeated into the times we live in today. It can be clearly seen in everyday product design and the way we design visual communication and of course its still present within the art. The idea of “less is more is definitely” a lesson worth learning as to be able… Read more →
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