OBERLIN CON / PROF. JULIA CHRISTENSEN
expanding ideas. the thought of it sometimes terrifies me. i dont really like to expand on my own ideas. i usually hate my ideas.
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I can’t be so analytical. More open minded thoughts I feel will serve me better.
But once I get the negative side of creative brain shut down…. [...]
Recently I have found the means of refinement functioning as a vehicle for expansion. As I strive to simplify my work, purify or polish an idea, I find myself further fabricating something which is essentially (and hopefully) thorough. This sounds vague, but essentially it is through this act that I can begin to think about [...]
Due to my past couple months spent constantly traveling, I’ve found myself in a growing amount of public spaces which have been installed with some form of interactive, new-media based art. Whether it is a commission in an airport, public park, or the more obvious museum, the amount of hidden projections with motion based interactivity [...]
Interaction is something that I’ve always had to deal with when it comes to music. Yes… deal with. Interaction is how you speak with the listener. Imagine not knowing how to interact with your vocal cords. It would become significantly harder to communicate ideas with the ease and freedom that those with working thyroarytenoid muscles [...]
There is a fuzzy line that separates instrumentality from interactivity. I assert that an instrument is a tool created for musical performance (and used by a performer) that responds to the performer. An instrument is interactive, but only to a select number of informed users. In general, an instrument does not make musical decisions on [...]
We try so hard to create the illusion of interactivity, to an extent that it becomes rather trivial. So much live electronic music exists simply to boast the intimacy of its interactions. These pieces hunger for the gawks and awes of an audience, entranced by the exhibition of techno-magistracy at hand. But stepping back from [...]
This semester is really the first time I’ve ever thought to do something interactive; not often do I even work with people when making something, let alone let strangers participate in the process. I’m excited, but also wary. My idea for our first project is beginning to feel stale, even gimmicky, and I wonder about [...]
At this point I have become pretty comfortable giving up most of my privacy. In fact, I think I have come to assume that many facets of my physical life will end up being disseminated digitally at some point to varying numbers of other people (whether or not anyone is actually paying attention). As bizarre [...]