Today class was very different then usual and set a different mood and different pace for the remainder of the semester. The surprise we were introduced to in class today was something we all had been waiting for since hana promised us in the beginning of the semester, and what we learned not only fulfilled expectations but gave me a different view on the motions of dance. As a dancer in my previous years, i never learned or expected to learn about dance by pictures or visual explanations of dance movements.
He along with hana, helped make this weeks project easier to interpret. The discussions held in class today made it okay not to understand every aspect of every project, i learned it is okay if i interpret something differently from someone else, it is acceptable if my project is created in a different way. It is good to know that each different person of the class brings a different background, brings different ideas, and ways of interpretation.
I am anxious to attend next weeks class and see how everyone mapped out their scores, including myself :) good luck!
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
QUESTIONS: INTRODUCING CYBERSPACE
1. "At present cyberspace does not consist of one homogeneous space; it is myriad of rapidly expanding cyberspaces, each providing a different form of digital interaction with communication". In life today what are cyberspaces expanding too and how are they affecting our means of communication?
2. Based on the two forms of virtual reality which is more important in creating inclusive and interactive spaces.
3. Since we already established space and place as a class, what is modern societies ways of connecting with cyberspace in relation to production and consumption.
4. Is the seperation of places (public and private) evident every day to all people, age groups, and societies?
5. The reality that cyberspace has created for its self is virtually unreal. It is possible that in generations to come it will be hard for them to decifer what is real and what is virtual?
Saturday, February 21, 2009
QUESTIONS: A DIFFERENT CITY FOR A DIFFERENT LIFE
1. What can we do as citizens to eliminate the crisis of urbanism that is constantly worsening?
2. How come we feel the constant need to break the laws that our city has made to help us? Why is there an ongoing need to betray the rules that are made merely to help us?
3. How are we able to produce enough if we are constantly cutting down on the amount of work put out collectively in changing nature.
4. What is the extent of the depths where new enviornments are created and how are they measured- in space or place?
5. Is life becoming richer and more rewarding by staying in our boundaries or creating extensive spaces and places to what we constantly live by?
2. How come we feel the constant need to break the laws that our city has made to help us? Why is there an ongoing need to betray the rules that are made merely to help us?
3. How are we able to produce enough if we are constantly cutting down on the amount of work put out collectively in changing nature.
4. What is the extent of the depths where new enviornments are created and how are they measured- in space or place?
5. Is life becoming richer and more rewarding by staying in our boundaries or creating extensive spaces and places to what we constantly live by?
Thursday, February 19, 2009
CLASS FEBRUARY 18.
Today in class, i came feeling prepared that I had answered the questions and taken pictures of what i thought were heterotopic spaces. When the discussion started I felt a better place for my eyes were to look down and not make eye contact with Hana for I did not have much to say about the heterotopic spaces discussed in the article. It was simple to find examples that had little common interest and capture them in photos to upload on my flickr. It was not easy, however, to explain why they fulfilled the criteria we were looking for. As class carried on, and my classmates gave new examples and reasons they saw certain herotopic regions and in what way, my mind started to wander. I was not exactly interested in the overalll meaning for I felt i had completed the project. Hana then informed us that this "heterotopic spaces" theory would be part of our homework for the next week. Not only was this haunting me, but the pictures of the cemetaries seemed to fit this disfunctional mode i had now created for myself. When we began the experimentation of working with partners and easing each other around the classroom and library, ideas started to form. A heterotopic area may not be as black and white as i would have preffered, but a wiff of the idea of its use started to form. It is one place that can be layered or defined in several different places. For a mirror captures an image for the second it is bestoyed in the reflection. Such heterotopias can change function, they are always opening and closing, which indefinitely isolates it. I know reading the perspective reading on this topic may inform me more about what is being discussed, but i think concentrating on the reading for this week and the long one for the week after are among my higher priorities. :)
Saturday, February 14, 2009
FLICKR
This is my flickr URL. I don't know if we're supposed to add eachother as friends or what, but i guess this is where I'll be posting my pictures from this weeks project.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/amandowns/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/amandowns/
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
QUESTIONS/ANSWERS FROM CLASSMATES
C++ (Mary Finelli) Have networks made it easier to have a false identity and a second life?
YES. I very much believe that because of networks it is easier for us to falsify our identities
and create fictional versions of our lives that we wish to aim for. Knowing that we can create a
facebook, myspace, or even something like this as a blog, is an introduction to other people
into our lives. The substantial view of our lives conducted through networks is an opening to
let others in and judge us based on what they see. So in a sense, networks have made it easier
for people to venture into our lives, false identities, and secondary lives.
SPACE & PLACE (Kathryn Nguyen) "Emotion tints all human experiences." Women are often considered more emotional than men. Does this mean women have more tainted experiences? Or more intense and intimate experiences?
The way women percieve emotion is all in all different then men. I see it as, women take
different approaches to situations. Men appear to be less emotional by hiding their emotions
because in society they feel it is frowned apon if men are emotional. For a woman to show her
emotions to others, it is seen as a sign of strongness, or attention. A woman who is able to
break down is often percieved as not caring or having enough stregnth in themselves to react
that way and bring themselves back to the surface. If a man breaks down, he is seen as weak
and unmanly.
OF OTHER SPACES (Justin Debrosse) Why does space supposedly cause more anxiety in our era than dealing with time?
Although many percieve time as main focus of each day, subconciously i believe space is the reason for many experiencing anxiety. Each day in our life we are concentrated on evaluating, making space for our space, involving all aspects of space into our identities. Although this is not something we focus on, it is surely something we all do. Think of sleeping in your bed. The more space the better. It is easier to accumulate the great amount of space we have available than scrounging for more space. Space is something we all take for granted. Without it, nothing we involve ourselves in would be influential and time would not even be a virtue.
YES. I very much believe that because of networks it is easier for us to falsify our identities
and create fictional versions of our lives that we wish to aim for. Knowing that we can create a
facebook, myspace, or even something like this as a blog, is an introduction to other people
into our lives. The substantial view of our lives conducted through networks is an opening to
let others in and judge us based on what they see. So in a sense, networks have made it easier
for people to venture into our lives, false identities, and secondary lives.
SPACE & PLACE (Kathryn Nguyen) "Emotion tints all human experiences." Women are often considered more emotional than men. Does this mean women have more tainted experiences? Or more intense and intimate experiences?
The way women percieve emotion is all in all different then men. I see it as, women take
different approaches to situations. Men appear to be less emotional by hiding their emotions
because in society they feel it is frowned apon if men are emotional. For a woman to show her
emotions to others, it is seen as a sign of strongness, or attention. A woman who is able to
break down is often percieved as not caring or having enough stregnth in themselves to react
that way and bring themselves back to the surface. If a man breaks down, he is seen as weak
and unmanly.
OF OTHER SPACES (Justin Debrosse) Why does space supposedly cause more anxiety in our era than dealing with time?
Although many percieve time as main focus of each day, subconciously i believe space is the reason for many experiencing anxiety. Each day in our life we are concentrated on evaluating, making space for our space, involving all aspects of space into our identities. Although this is not something we focus on, it is surely something we all do. Think of sleeping in your bed. The more space the better. It is easier to accumulate the great amount of space we have available than scrounging for more space. Space is something we all take for granted. Without it, nothing we involve ourselves in would be influential and time would not even be a virtue.
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