9.18.2013 Class Notes

Homework for next week:
-read articles
-read over a list on the posted website, and find and post the most interesting one among the listed etiquettes ("To Do's" and "NOT To Do's")

-"netiqutte" has been always a part of our life
-is it negotiable or not? 

-how do we use technology in our daily life?

Visual Representations:

-people get impatient because people now grow with technology which is supposed to work instantly. Waiting a technology to load/buffer/get results from online search=not allowing you to go outside or look at a whole image clearly on screen/blocking yourself from the outer world

-a phone in/out of a box with glitters on with word "connect" on the top: pictures of her, her friends and family. If a phone is out of a box, you can call or text them. If a phone is in a box, you cannot connect to them by texts, calls, etc. Yet, you get to spend more time with people one on one. It reminded me of my own box in which I collect letters I have received. It almost made a phone as a keepsake which captures moments and collects memories.  

-a phone in a jail with flowers outside: the message is "you don't notice beautiful things that are around you if you are on the phone." 

-she often uses the internet for inspiration when making art. So, she went to the Met instead, and made a drawing inspired by a sculpture piece at the museum. And, she made another drawing of the same sculpture without changing any pose, but she added a phone as if he was on the phone. It reminded me of people on the phone while walking on the streets who might not recognize that others might see or listen to them. 

-make a keyboard without regular letters, but with words with things that you can ONLY do without technology (ex. hiking, playing, etc)?!

-she made a juxtaposed maps of Manhattan and Africa with technologies she has used in the region next to the map.

-she made a drawing of different illustrations which show her feelings when she was doing the on/off experiment (unorganized->uncomfortable->willing to escape->sick->depressed). She draw them with markers, and then she scanned them. 

-she took a nap most of the time for the on/off experiment. she uses her phone for alarm, and she had the best sleep when she had this experiment because the alarm never went off. she made a reference to traffic lights to how much a phone is charged up. she made a parallel how we need to be recharged as much as a phone does. 

-she turned off her TV. And, she taught her husband how to make a painting on a easel with acrylic paints. He made a painting of a beetle. While her husband painted, she made calligraphy and practiced her Chinese skills. She loves technology, art, language, etc and she wanted to combine anything she liked. "Instead of being a consumer, I was a creator."

-he made a piece inspired by a question "what if everything disappears?" light and fire are the most important things. he decided to find trash and build a fire because he did not know how things work (e.g. how TV works, how to make fire, etc).