Thinking about presenting the things that inspired the project and presenting these to be a part of a publication that documents the process of the project, linking back to the discussion Peg and I had yesterday: 'Enables physical book to become an embodiment of the topic'.
Taking the transcript of Mark Farid's Ted Talk and generating it into imagery that can be incorporated:
Thinking about the digital aspect and communicating the idea of a 'published web', using digital coding typeface for the text could be a way to nod to the digital aspects.
- Inspired by HTML setting on blogger:
Highlighting the most influences sections of the text:
Directs the audience's attention to bits that are key.
Could do this in a way that's more interesting? Think about the donald trump tweets writing up 1984, could make a narrative within the text by highlighting, could be a commentary from our behalf, or could be from questionnaire results?
- What would this achieve? Would we want it to be something that encourages people to look further into the content? Read the fine print? Suggest an idea of secrecy?
1984 BY @REALDONALDTRUMP:
Creating sentences from questionnaire:
This was really difficult as the transcript was missing a lot of words that were given in the answers.
- Could do with more text over a range of topics to make more vocabulary available.
- Could this be something that runs through the whole publication? If you found all the words it would make sentences?
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RESEARCH
LIBRARY OF THE PRINTED WEB:
I collect artists’ books, zines and other work around a simple curatorial idea: web culture articulated as printed artifact.
All of the artists—more than 30 so far, and growing—work with data found on the web, but the end result is the tactile, analog experience of printed matter.
Looking through the works, you see artists sifting through enormous accumulations of images and texts. They do it in various ways—hunting, grabbing, compiling, publishing. They enact a kind of performance with the data, between the web and the printed page, negotiating vast piles of existing material. Almost all of the artists here use the search engine, in one form or another, for navigation and discovery.
- Amazing resource full of publications and texts that discuss themes around the internet using printed matter. Shows different ways of interpreting data, content, imagery and text, also shows how to collect the content.
JOHN RAFMAN - 16 GOOGLE STREET VIEWS:
The images in this book, captured by the roving Google vehicle, depict solitary individuals in a variety
of contemporary landscapes.
- Sparked the idea of using google street view as the imagery within the project, connects to the idea of geotagging and being able to trace the locations.
- I think the imagery also represents the idea of a digital landscape in a more literal sense that can add to the project. It's a viewpoint someone could go and see but it's been taken by a camera to be seen online, not in person.
- What is a contemporary landscape today? What is a digital landscape?
RE-EDITIONED TEXTS: HEARTS OF DARKNESS:
http://p-dpa.net/work/re-editioned-texts/
https://ia800508.us.archive.org/27/items/heart_of_darkness__project_gutenberg/heart_of_darkness__project_gutenberg.pdf
Twelve different paperback copies of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, reprinted using text files downloaded from different online sources. As unique copies, the interior text is modified by the digitization of the novel – some include Google ads, mistakes, and mistranslations of the original.
Conrad's 1899 novel was a layered narrative exploration of colonialism, a search for a shadowy figure in a "Heart of Darkness." By creating physical books from digital files, the text further becomes modified, adding a layer of distance, mistranslation, but perhaps also functions as an inadvertent rewriting.
- The publishing of the book with all mistakes and google ads left in really demonstrates the digital within the physical, also links to the idea of the user being the product.
- The literal demonstration of web to print here is pretty obvious, but it highlights something about the different experiences we have of the same content when consumed online or physically in print. By producing the book the differences are more clearly noticeable among the audience.
- The design is minimal and doesn't add much to the text. The titles on the cover being the URLs help the audience understand the differences between the texts and some of the content.
https://ia800508.us.archive.org/27/items/heart_of_darkness__project_gutenberg/heart_of_darkness__project_gutenberg.pdf
Twelve different paperback copies of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, reprinted using text files downloaded from different online sources. As unique copies, the interior text is modified by the digitization of the novel – some include Google ads, mistakes, and mistranslations of the original.
- The literal demonstration of web to print here is pretty obvious, but it highlights something about the different experiences we have of the same content when consumed online or physically in print. By producing the book the differences are more clearly noticeable among the audience.
ALBERTINE MEUNIER - MY GOOGLE SEARCH HISTORY: THE BOOK:
Our digital lives are leaving more and more traces of our activity. Each moment spent online is guided not only by information on websites but also by search engines, and each search leaves a small invisible trace on the Internet, like a useless gesture.
Day after day, we repeat this practice: the same gestures, the same reflexes, the same habits. These repetitions create the invisible tracks of each individual’s online itinerary. So we ask ourselves: Since the beginning of the Internet, how much time have we spent in front of the glowing screen? How many times have we loaded Google’s homepage? And on this page, left virtually unchanged for years, how many searches have we done? All those swallowed bytes are difficult to qualify on a human scale. Yet some online players, such as Google, very quickly understood the value of each one’s personal itinerary. And that the sum total of searches using their engine says just as much about all of us as about each one of us.
- Could work with human gestures within the project to add some direction or visuals? Could contribute to layout?
- The presentation of the content is minimal, not particularly engaging, but the idea behind the publication is what's most enticing.
DAWN KIM - CREATION.IMG:
https://dawnkim.com/Creation-IMG
- The idea and techniques behind this publication are really interesting, the use of an algorithm to search for visually similar content helps provide a visual narrative for the publication and communicate the themes and ideas to the audience clearly.
- Is this something we can use in our project to collect imagery? Thinking back to the use of algorithms to create content, having the work develop with digital techniques?
Creation.IMG is a collection of images, which attempts to visually narrate the seven days of creation as told in the book of Genesis. Guided by Google's visually-similar search algorithm, each image was used to find the next.
- The idea and techniques behind this publication are really interesting, the use of an algorithm to search for visually similar content helps provide a visual narrative for the publication and communicate the themes and ideas to the audience clearly.
- Is this something we can use in our project to collect imagery? Thinking back to the use of algorithms to create content, having the work develop with digital techniques?
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GOOGLE MAPS:
Going with the google map theme I started to look at yesterday, thinking about the street view idea (John Rafman) as a way to present the geotagging data Peggy had collected.
There's something about seeing these locations that makes the geotagging feel much more personal and invasive to that individual's privacy. When looking at them yesterday on a map the digital design of it takes you out of the situation and provides some distance, with the photographs it's much more real.
Adding to book:
Would need to do something more than simply place them on the page, how could they interact with other content, could they be used along with algorithms/randomised selection?Zooming in:
Adding in secondary page with a zoom ins of the locations, there still could be more done to the imagery, similar search?
When you visually similar image search other information relating to the image pops up, objects or places that are connected to the image with more information about them as well as images that contain similar content.
Could communicate a sense of endless searching that can be done on the internet by presenting the visually similar information within the publication.
- Does this communicate a message? If so what do I want it to communicate?
- Does this communicate a message? If so what do I want it to communicate?
Reflecting:
- Visually similar imagery has weight to it and can be explored more thoroughly tomorrow. Think about what production techniques could be done to enhance this experiment.
- Google maps imagery is really strong, conveys something to the audience that on the surface doesn't look as though it is directly related to the topic of geotagging but it is in the most literal way.
- Need to be aware of ethics with this, don't want to be revealing personal information about the instagram user who's locations these are.
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