Feb 9, 2017
Note to self: Agenda for the next four years:
Resist.
Persist.
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Note to self: Agenda for the next four years:
Resist.
Persist.
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WK14: final show + graduation
Right as I entered the post-symposium, pre-final show scramble, my family came into town for my graduation! Which was exciting but also a little stressful (at first). Luckily, they and my partner provided plenty of opportunities for me to take much needed breaks amidst all of the last minute additions to my installation. Here’s a peek at my *final* final installation:
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WK13: symposium (2 of 2)
As part of the symposium, us students had three minutes each to present a deep dive into our thesis projects...here’s mine!
[presentation transcript coming soon!]
WK 12-13: installation time (a.k.a. in which I make crappy cardboard templates of my objects so that I don’t completely mess up the final objects made out of nice cardboard)
WK 11-12: making plans, slow and steady
With the symposium coming up WK13, I needed to ramp up production on my installation. I was still very unsure about how some of my proposed “steps” would play out, but making drawings, building maquettes, ordering business cards, ordering “blue dot” buttons as giveaways, and ordering an absurd amount of cardboard for my final build made it seem like I was making progress...
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WK11: finalizing the “hero image” + the thesis blurb
Many thanks to @stephcedeno for lending her lovely hand to my hero image—I’m lucky to have a friend who can withstand my desire to get The Perfect Photo. Also, god bless the after market iPhone accessories that made this crumpled-word-in-a-phone screen idea possible.
Oh, and here’s my thesis blurb, much different than the statement I had pitched for the WK09 review:
The Blue Dot: A User’s Guide intervenes at the seams of what appears to be a seamless user interaction. The project invites users to reconstruct their experience with Google Maps by spatially inhabiting the mobile app’s navigation interfaces. By giving dimension to what is hidden, flattened, or abstracted, The Blue Dot challenges the objectivity of Google’s homogenizing worldview.
WK09: “Final” Thesis Review (statement + prototypes)
At the center of The Blue Dot: A User’s Guide is the intersection of the globally-oriented system of GPS, and the homogenizing navigation interfaces of Google Maps. By deconstructing how GPS and Google Maps are separate systems that work together, and intervening at the seams of what appears to be a seamless user interaction, The Blue Dot invites users to inhabit their user experience with these systems in a way that is not optimized for getting from Point A to Point B.
The exhibition space and accompanying book guides users to reconstruct their interaction with GPS and Google Maps in a way that reveals what information is hidden, flattened, or abstracted from the default points-of-view afforded by existing navigation interfaces.
The Blue Dot is also a research project that aspires to challenge the idea of an all-purpose navigation interface that uniformly serves a variegated global space.
Above and below: Diagrams of the sequence of interactive objects that the user can perform the noted “steps” through.
Dividing the user interaction into steps—while rooted in my own deconstruction of that screen experience—was also definitely inspired by Hito Steyerl’s language in her video How To Not Be Seen.