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Positions Through Essaying: Written Work
In order to animate this document, please download the file. Once downloaded, open with your preferred document viewer, enter full screen, and press the downward arrow key. I wanted to explore a method of presenting my text in a way that would integrate sequencing with a traditionally static interface, like adobe acrobat. This felt like…
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Positions Through Essaying
This video essay is a live, performed document of my practice over the first term of Unit 2, shot in a single continuous sequence. I used projections, a printer and cartridge paper to communicate my main enquiry, in addition to the critical findings that I’ve uncovered through my work.
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Positions Through Contextualizing
Written Work
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Positions Through Iterating
Written Work: Project Presentation, Week 1 Project Presentation, Week 2 Animations
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Methods of Contextualizing: Written Work
PART ONE In my personal practice, I tend to gravitate towards work that explores the minutiae of felt experiences. This often means that my research, referential materials and enquiries are less concerned with statistical information, leaning heavily qualitative over quantitative. Methods of Contextualizing asked that I disrupt this approach by tethering my iterations to a…
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Methods of Contextualizing
INITIAL EXPLORATION As a group, we decided to use student air travel as our primary data source. In the initial stages of this brief, we felt it would be best to experiment with our own, independent approaches, unifying the through-lines as the project progressed. While exploring the direction for my approach, I wanted to consider…
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Methods of Iterating
TOOL AND MATERIAL SELECTION For the Methods of Iterating brief, I chose animation as my tool and Oskar Fischinger’s piece, Studie Nr. 7, as my source material. As a designer and musician, I have a particular interest in producing and engaging with work that explores the relationship between visual and sonic elements. I chose this…
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Methods of Translating
Three days prior to the deadline, I chose to change the direction of my work for this brief, selecting an entirely new source material. I received an email from my therapist, requesting that I complete an anxiety and depression assessment, clinically known as the PHQ-9 & GAD-7. This form aims to assess the severity of…
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Methods of Translating: Written Task
Susan Sontag’s writing is so decisive that it often reads like a manifesto, hence why the Conditional Design Manifesto felt like an apt method for exploration. I wanted to approach the written task for this brief from a more critical perspective, rather than a direct translation of its meaning. It was important to consider style…