#intergrative practice

QUANTITATIVE - ETHAN DAYA

Do I still need to be quantitative still...am I still thinking in numbers...or do I get the chance to be analytical and look at the broad spectrum of what we have accomplished. Im going to guess the latter and if I’m wrong then blame it on the transdisciplinary model and its effect of my work ethic and processes.

This was without a single doubt in my interdisciplinary mind the most out there and alternative project I have ever worked on in my entire life. It was a very interesting style of assignment with equally as interesting and frustrating content. However this did definitely push me a long way out of my comfort zone.

This assignment was all about maintaining our disciplinary positions whilst working in an inter/trans/multi/intra disciplinary framework. This in reality is a near impossible process as our understanding are all formed by the use of all the types of knowledge we discussed. This is probably what the intention of this assignment was; to show us that the greatest results were not seen in the individual closed work but in the trans elements in which we are completely mixed and immersed in multiple disciplines. 

The qualitative role I was assigned was ten times more difficult than I’d imagined. I struggled to find real resources to back up the theories and ideas proposed by my fellow team members. I really had to rely on them to point me in a different direction and give me ideas from their research to look for new facts. This meant that the more I tried to maintain my position the more isolated and difficult to work with I became. 

Our best definitely arose out of collaborations; this was evident in the discussions we had together in the latter stage of our work as Hayden, Tim and I drummed out our knowledge and how they worked together, Kryten and I discussed the effects of dreams and our emotional influence. Without this collaboration and evolution from multi to intra / trans we would have never been able to come up with the ideas we did. 

I think what we did well as a group was the contributions to each other and the latter development. It was evident to me very early on that the original idea of everyone researching on their own was a very bad idea because it meant we were all spiralling off in random directions and weren't actually trying to legitimise a point...which was our problem. 

Our final idea of testing people to prove what reality they were in seems kinda cool and I was quite pleased with the highly simple logic and black and white facts I could use to back it up. But realistically its highly theoretical and there’s no proof or a hive coexistent mind, other temporal dimensions or dream states...its all theoretical.  

As I’ve said before in the land of quantitative this would be a solid fail. But it isn't just about me; marginalizing our positions isn't necessarily done by working or learning about other ideas. Maybe its the reverse but the more knowledge we observe in order to help us understand our own hat or knowledge goal would be highly beneficial. 

QUANTITATIVE - ETHAN DAYA

Our outcome for this journey has now been finished and developed. We have created an audio visual test for our point of knowledge.

Logic says that once you are asleep you can’t fall asleep again; or from what is know to us quantitatively / qualitatively anyway. Our test uses audio and visual aids to cause sleep. Tim has created a sound piece using theta and delta waves which are the waves produced during dreams and nightmares. The piece also uses sounds the brain associates with calmness and this calm process is needed to begin to enter into the REM (Dream stage) part of our sleep. 

The video i have created using on screen text as well as subliminal messaging to get across to the audience that they should begin to fall asleep. The onscreen text displays that they will soon to begin to feel sleepy and the subliminal messaging gets progressively more and more intense until you can sometimes see the flicker of the message if you look very closely. 

Sometime we discussed previously was his work for Air New Zealand in which he created a video for long haul flights to help people sleep; he used these same waves of sound to induce sleep. He told us about how another important factor in making people sleep was the placebo. The video said it would make them fall asleep and our brains respond by accepting the command and sleep. 

Our test says that if you cant sleep then we know you are in your dream reality. However I as the quantitative thinker must look for the statistics and numbers around the effects of our test. I am not sure how long we will actually get to test the theory as we will need to setup as well as turning off all lights and shutting all the blinds as well as getting the class to shut all their devices off and become very calm and silent. 

I think our test will be successful as long as someone admits to being sleepy. The likelihood that everyone stays awake is high however the length of time they need to be subjected to this to fall asleep as well as a number of other uncontrollables mean that if someone begins to feel sleepy when others feel completely awake will provide some proof of our theory...but as the quantitative thinker id have to regard that as hearsay until further research can be done! 

did a bit of research on this topic of hate versus love and I found out that when looking at the science behind these emotions and what the brain does when we feel love or hate. Prof Zeki has done some investigation into the workings of the brain when we feels love and hate. He found that when we feel hate, certain sections of the brain activate, which they call the hate circut. This circut is made up of the putamen and the insula. They are both activated when we feel love and also when we feel hate. So this is how we know that these two emotion that we normally asociate to be opposites are very similar.

I also found a writing about Plato’s theory of love and i read about half of it. And i have to say that it gives a unique view on what love is between two people. and i recomend reading it. The link for it is below

http://www.society-for-philosophy-in-practice.org/journal/pdf/4-3%2006%20Amir%20-%20Plato%20Love.pdf

[ALL PHOTO CONTENT OF THE INTERVIEW PROCESS WAS UNFORTUNATELY (and annoyingly thanks again Yoobee for that one) LOST IN THE FORMATTED HARD DRIVE] 

Incredibly inspired by the CIA handbook (only slightly though) I wanted to do something to my inanimate object that would change its response to my “questioning” or interviewing of the subject. 

After much deliberation and deviation from my previous water torture idea I decided to interview a keyboard and planned to pluck its keys one by one in a decidedly quite malicious way…all for the creative process of course. 

I began by connecting the keyboard to my computer (and waiting 15 minutes for apple to recognise the cheap windows keyboard) and typing in a single phrase; “The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog !@#$%^&*() 1234567890” in order to establish a base phrase which used all the letters in the alphabet as well as the most commonly used non alphabetical characters. I also made the decision to separate the numerical keys above the qwerty keyboard from the numerals on the right hand side of the keyboard. 

I then used a random number generator with a range of 1 - 47 which was the total number of keys I was going to pull from the keyboard as these were the ones being used for the repeated message of the keyboard. 

The interrogation lasted a number of different rounds of physical manipulation to tell the secrets the keyboard was hiding. After multiple attempts to get a new message out of the keyboard I found its message to be highly illegible with huge chunks missing from its mutterings. 

I actually quite enjoyed being able to work on this assignment despite it taking such a long time to post about thanks to a huge number of uncontrollables… 

still ill, a ton of work to do; have got next to no time…

Playing the catchup game is what I believe I will have to do for the next few weeks in order to catchup on all the work I have missed and continuing to miss…

I however have a game plan;

I first need to just read all the assigment briefs and set out a solid and simple plan to get all of it done. This will involve a lot of time and energy I may or may not have but at least if I stop somewhere I know exactly where to start again.

This was my attempt at integrating a soccer ball to get information out of how could you get it into the net without using your feet or any other typical physical sporting methods. Seeing as I was abiding by the interrogation techniques of building a rapport with the subject, i wanted to help an object reach both of our goals simultaneously, instead of beating until submission. I decided to take it step further and make sure I don’t use any other objects outside out their function ( Don’t use a plastic box just to whack the thing in) here are the results.

Initially planned a video of me going up against a goalie use all these objects to get passed her, with a cheeky tone and reaction shots to how unfair the whole thing alas, bad tome management means I have to settle with this footage 

Object 1: Bag