rui online notebook/homework log

Ultimately, do you think simulated experience can compensate for a lack of resources and open up opportunities to a more diverse population? Does the experience compensate for flaws in the real experience?

Or do you think it encourages a “certain detachment from one’s work… [and] a certain detachment from real life” that promotes “sterile” or “risky” learning outcomes, as Turkle writes about the MIT professors involved in Project Athena. 

How do you think the gap between the simulated experience and the real experience affects a user’s success in attaining their goals? Do they involuntarily fill in the gap or ignore it? 

Materials Needed Participants

Artists References https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KNczUc8C4V0FDf5pTs9fNn1F1PXQSj6y/view

http://vsw.org/afterimage/2017/07/06/dossier-speculations-and-inquiries-on-new-participatory-documentary-environments/

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t2NReb7xCrqTA7ouHnEA2S6hiMVKHH_w/view

Objectives To energize the class To encourage discussion and face to face communication between classmates

To critically analyze this week’s readings on documentary

Questions

How does the concept of spectacle—coined by Guy Debord and mentioned by Nato Thompson—play out in SEA projects?

Prep (2 mins) Read the readings

Split up the class by half - use the counting off by 1, 2 method

Activity (10 mins)

Students form two circles, one inside circle and one outside circle. Each student on the inside is paired with a student on the outside; they face each other.

Facilitators pose a question to the whole group. 

Pairs discuss their responses with each other. 

Facilitators signal students to rotate: 

Students on the outside circle move one space to the right so they are standing in front of a new person. 

Facilitators pose a new question, and the process is repeated until we run out of questions. 

Now repeat the exercise but this time use groups of 4 instead of groups of 2.

Explain the stuff abt the readings

Discussion (5-15 mins) Take the whole class together for a class discussion on the questions posed before.

originally was soft vs hard, but now since cardboard arm is not hard...?

Document your ideation, process and concept in a blog post with photos or videos and at least 100 words of description. 

Raelle and Rui

Our self-defeating machine takes the form of two small servos that cause each other to jam up, malfunction, and ultimately stop moving.

In the year 2189, children will no longer be satisfied with 2D fighting games; they will want to see true bloodbath, real in-person battles for entertainment’s sake. However, as society progresses and becomes more empathetic to various living forms, society would like to still retain a sense of ethics. So instead of having living beings fight, they will create small robots that aim to “destroy” each other. 

The two demonstrated here have been developed by middle school students Yaelle and Yui. They were inspired by the way that male deer fight each other with their antlers to enforce dominance.

pic, video 

PROCESS:

We originally planned to have two servos that would futilely fight each other. Both would have “arms” attached to the little fan shape included in the Arduino kit. One servo would be hard and rigid, while the other would be soft and flexible.

pic of sketch

There was difficulty with the laser cutter and 3D printer, so for the hard arm, we tried out these cardboard arms which moved well, but looked a bit janky, and was not strictly rigid.

pic of cardboard arm

The soft arm was going to be made with acrylic fabric, but was a bit unengaging.

pic of arm

While trying to get string through the tiny screw holes in the servo fan shape, we discovered that string jams the servo’s rotation and prevents it from working. So attaching some string to the servo and then an accompanying hooked arm that would unravel the string on the opposing servo worked well to fulfill the self-destruction prompt.

10 min: case study content writing

30 min: proofread writing grammar

10 min: swap writing grammar

30 min html css structure together

20 min ask each other ?s

15 min toggle images

2017: Instattend comes on the market for public use

2018: some reports here and there of malignant Instattend representatives causing trouble for clients at their events; better/more through vetting process for representatives put in place and their wages raised. 

2019: client fee rises as a result of specialized representatives. Instattend public reputation fairly under the radar, but pretty good bc new reps do great job, and Instattend employs minorities, specifically harmless-looking ones ie women, queer people, people of color who are queer or women, etc. which is great PR. Reps also get to learn a lot and make connections which is beneficial to them.

2020: In June, Florida, a case appears where a client hires Instattend to attend elementary school graduation. Representative is a visibly queer male of color. Client asks for a front row seat to see their child more clearly, representative obliges and attempts to reserve seat early. School police assume Instattend equipment is a form of child trafficking surveillance (?), arrest representative. Discrimination lawsuit occurs plus questions about who is target of discrimination, representative or Instattend? 

2021: outcome of lawsuit is that the rep wins, but apparently the equipment is suspicious enough that police alarm is reasonable, so Instattend loses, has no legal ground to fight equipment-related charges. 

later 2021: Instattend changes policy to office and work service only, no personal visits. Becomes far more specialized service. 

2022: Instattend experimenting with extremely discreet livestreaming/camera technology

2025: iris-cam is invented. people very excited about it. Instattend doing well on the market, is useful and professional service.

http://artemisfowl.wikia.com/wiki/Iris-cam

2027: iris-cam is deployed

2028: crazy evil client uses iris-cam footage to steal identities, data, and bank accounts of 153,624,690 people, causing shit ton of issues for people worldwide. Extreme uproar. Very bad situation all around.

2028: all reps who took crazy evil client bookings are brutally murdered

2028: iris-cam tech stolen/plagiarized from Instattend, starts becoming widely used worldwide urban centers but especially in south korea, japan, germany, not so much on eyeballs, but instead stuck to womens locker rooms and public bathrooms, and places with children :(

2028: Instattend tries to do public placating, owners sell company to Viacom bc it is going to die soon

2029: owners also found dead, brutally murdered

2029: Instattend disbands/closes down permanently

2029: iris-cam condemned worldwide due to ethical reasons - mostly voyeurism related; however, despite public outrage, men still use it for above reasons

2033: black market for iris-cams slow down, but still thriving; many on dark web

MUSEUM EXHIBIT STRUCTURE:

split into 2 sections focusing on tech and intention of tech uses:

original instattend tech -> intended audience and issues arising aka lawsuit

iris cam tech -> focus on reputation of brand and how situation spirals out of control

begin with webcam + speaker + ipad + representative, end with large iris-cam + dead representative crime scene outline and newspaper headlines

2 rooms separated by curtain? or by arrow/bloody blobs on floor

1st room friendlier for original tech, smaller, more white and innocent

either 3d print homework, or use 3d print in your final

ideation - come up with group and idea by next week, start gathering materials

for ideas, can walk around tinkersphere

last day of class is dec 13

3d printed enclosures (like houses for your wires and shit)

pls make enclosure with a DOOR so you can fix stuff - robustness, interactivity, materiality, tightness/secure and tacked down/not rattling around

make ribs/slots that make sure things are secure and your stuff doesn’t get rattled around in the box

electronics get data sheet or go on grabcad and then you can design enclosure around those measurements

make filets instead of 90 degree angles so that nothing snaps off easily

bounding box tool gives measurements of your rhino objects

mcmastercar servocity pololu

for the final: readymades (toys, appliances, products), robot kits you can add on top of, those are good as starting points - for final, you should add something to it, modify it etc.

final: make a device that destroys itself, that acts counteractive to itself, soft die, not work in its self interest

Hey all,

Sorry to send the homework out so late. They’re relatively short and easy to consume though!

Please watch this video on gender dysphoria by ContraPoints:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayuqizp4fyY

PLEASE play Dys4ia by anna anthropy. If you don’t feel like doing any of the homework, at least check this one out! It’s an awesome piece of new media art.

https://freegames.org/dys4ia/

Read about Dys4ia here:

use servo to connect to paper mechanism to make a cute cool thing

can be as simple as a fan or as complicated as an animated running horse

look at rob ives for inspiration

also still need to do sensor assignment

turkle - do online identities enrich irl or using as escapism???

examine diff b/t trolls and actual trans people

cis people lurking

eggs lurking

Do loads of user testing