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Supervision 24/April/2017

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Arts C – 10.30am – 11.30

General Notes:

VIRAL -> define the term trough a reference or quote since the first time that is mentioned is important. Bring in again term/reference for each chapter.

Keep self-contained chapters so that they can be read separately but work en conjunto. This means taking the time to re-explain and frame in which terms I’m talking or using specific yet important topics like Viral, Culture, meme, etc.

“I borrow the definition of the viral from theorist… when he says…“ (theoretical scholarly foundation)

When I talk in terms of humour it seems to be more accurate to describe it as satire to narrow the term. The kind of humour is then satire since it is used as critique.

VITAL -> to take life of their own

Address the idea that it seems as though online everything is changing and the problematic is huge whereas sometimes the reality in the physical world is that nothing is happening, there is no change or it looks like nothing is happening. Ex. Saqueos en las calles en toda la República por el aumento a la gasolina cuando en realidad no sucede mucho en las calles. Or expressing discomfort in Trump or other causes bit little to no protest (marchas) are happening and it seems like just another normal day.

Doesn’t shift protocol -> still the same -> online % everyday -> this difference on online world and “real” world is another BORDER 

ANALYSIS: Seems that I am using a user-centered design so mention it -> “I’m approaching from a user-centered design” since I’m focus on who the speaker is along with from where they are speaking (Mexican users creating memes online and platforms they use)

CREATIVE WORK:

Keep working on prototypes parallel to research work along with constant update of Log (Log can be divided into two, 1 creative work and 2 theoretical context) 

Prepare the FINAL IDEA or concept on how I perceive the final project outcome, ex. as an installation, website, both, video project, etc. To have a clear picture and also start addressing the needs of renting a space or venue and see who or how I would approach to achieve this

Discuss with Mel (in the near future mini VIVA) my ideas since she is a photojournalist and ask her advice in terms of venue if I see my final project as an exhibition

Web exhibition? -> FINAL PROJECT ? -> Projectors + Visual TV’s (recall the Sweden Museum pictures of the visual exhibitions on video)

*Keep in mind that the Creative Zone Space in Physics department seems to cease to exist or we are not granted access anymore, maybe they are only remodeling but the new Attenborough Place could have a space to offer either that or book and prototype in the TV studio

STATEMENT -> ENCAPSULATE FINAL SHOW -> DIGITAL SKETCHES (explain how the exhibition would look like with, for example, with projection or computers) and use those sketches to APPROACH STUDIOS in Brighton

TO DO:

Submission Deadline 16th May

  • Chapter 1 & 2 (Draft Form) 
  • DEMO’s of sound project & Landscape Meme project
  • Log of Website progress & notes

Send Desktop Recordings of Projects // DEMO videos // Include prototyping work which is already here posted as previous content

TRIGGERS FOR SOUND -> Makey Makey? -> INSTALLATION -> Remember to give context needed for non Mexican people experiencing the Installlation 
*Reference for Installationmoving through space – Mike Nelson – http://ift.tt/1p2UZ9n

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Supervision 24/April/2017

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Arts C – 10.30am – 11.30

General Notes:

VIRAL -> define the term trough a reference or quote since the first time that is mentioned is important. Bring in again term/reference for each chapter.

Keep self-contained chapters so that they can be read separately but work en conjunto. This means taking the time to re-explain and frame in which terms I’m talking or using specific yet important topics like Viral, Culture, meme, etc.

“I borrow the definition of the viral from theorist… when he says…“ (theoretical scholarly foundation)

When I talk in terms of humour it seems to be more accurate to describe it as satire to narrow the term. The kind of humour is then satire since it is used as critique.

VITAL -> to take life of their own

Address the idea that it seems as though online everything is changing and the problematic is huge whereas sometimes the reality in the physical world is that nothing is happening, there is no change or it looks like nothing is happening. Ex. Saqueos en las calles en toda la República por el aumento a la gasolina cuando en realidad no sucede mucho en las calles. Or expressing discomfort in Trump or other causes bit little to no protest (marchas) are happening and it seems like just another normal day.

Doesn’t shift protocol -> still the same -> online % everyday -> this difference on online world and “real” world is another BORDER 

ANALYSIS: Seems that I am using a user-centered design so mention it -> “I’m approaching from a user-centered design” since I’m focus on who the speaker is along with from where they are speaking (Mexican users creating memes online and platforms they use)

CREATIVE WORK:

Keep working on prototypes parallel to research work along with constant update of Log (Log can be divided into two, 1 creative work and 2 theoretical context) 

Prepare the FINAL IDEA or concept on how I perceive the final project outcome, ex. as an installation, website, both, video project, etc. To have a clear picture and also start addressing the needs of renting a space or venue and see who or how I would approach to achieve this

Discuss with Mel (in the near future mini VIVA) my ideas since she is a photojournalist and ask her advice in terms of venue if I see my final project as an exhibition

Web exhibition? -> FINAL PROJECT ? -> Projectors + Visual TV’s (recall the Sweden Museum pictures of the visual exhibitions on video)

*Keep in mind that the Creative Zone Space in Physics department seems to cease to exist or we are not granted access anymore, maybe they are only remodeling but the new Attenborough Place could have a space to offer either that or book and prototype in the TV studio

STATEMENT -> ENCAPSULATE FINAL SHOW -> DIGITAL SKETCHES (explain how the exhibition would look like with, for example, with projection or computers) and use those sketches to APPROACH STUDIOS in Brighton

TO DO:

Submission Deadline 16th May

  • Chapter 1 & 2 (Draft Form) 
  • DEMO’s of sound project & Landscape Meme project
  • Log of Website progress & notes

Send Desktop Recordings of Projects // DEMO videos // Include prototyping work which is already here posted as previous content

TRIGGERS FOR SOUND -> Makey Makey? -> INSTALLATION -> Remember to give context needed for non Mexican people experiencing the Installlation 
*Reference for Installationmoving through space – Mike Nelson – http://ift.tt/1p2UZ9n

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Supervision 16/March/2017

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Arts C – 10am

General notes:

Since the written work is in English but sometimes incorporates usage of words in Spanish I’m encouraged to use the term as it is in Spanish allowing to explain the negotiation though language and why that word works better untranslated but also explaining the meaning in English.

Change order of paragraphs to fit better the general understanding, for example, the paragraph in page 4 of draft works better as Introduction since it reminds the actual thing happening in the writing. 

Bring up-front the thematic: DIGITAL BORDERS and negotiations, accessibility to certain people and non-accessibility (rationale)

This piece of draft (Meme image analysis) could become the 1st chapter, which is why is important to keep in mind the bigger picture outline along with the central theme, look at variations in theme and maybe incorporate later a chapter I want to do on just video and only sound.

Expand and clear the picture of word meme by incorporating a bigger picture of Dawkins work, who disagrees with him? what are the limits of his work? on what way am I applying it to culture and specifically memes? Do a similar thing with Lemor Shifman analysis on stance, form, context analysing and saying what I feel it lacks or needs to be incorporated to better analyse my content.

Expand, add-on history to have a better comparison. Similarly to the way I incorporated briefly Day of the Dead and Aztecs customs to compare as older form of media. [foot-holes?] It’s good to hear more about cultural frameworks of Mexico to give contrast with new meme.

The general project is about the process memes go through to become viral and remain (become part of culture), the project is not about the origin of memes. to do with evolution rather than genesis. Nevertheless, there is something in the original that sticks in the mind and gets chosen to recreate or duplicate.

How to discuss, address meme? discussion, critique on Dawkins, expand more on Dawkins time of genetics, genome critique [discuss limits of the definition]

Incorporate in the discussion Mimesis/Alterity TAUSSIG since he not only mentions and incorporates relevant elements but also gets hold of culture and the past to understand the present, in other words, on how culture is replicated across space.

1st Draft is good to be a stream of consciousness, but for 2nd keep in mind bullet points outline to hook and hang to topic. [Another draft could incorporate corrections and tips given in workshops on language I’ve been attending for Academic writing]

Incorporate in writing [possibly] if useful commercial meme & file size. They came from the discussion on how I posted all memes I got on photoshop to be aware of their actual size and you can see how the small ones are made for phone and the big ones were created by commercial websites that want their content to get likes therefore someone with design knowledge created them like Pictoline. *Archive in memes in Milenio and Aristegui are also worth mentioning.

*Reappropriation* -Page 7 on draft – mimesis TAUSSIG incorporation. Find more solid references, negotiate through visual images.

Bring in more examples for distinction between my 3 groups on how they could also merge or become their own thing [1. Politics & The Wall 2. Mexican Culture 3. Pop Culture movies and film] concepts using borders

CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY Reference – Gillian Rose [read and search references]

MIMESIS/ALTERITY

– Taussig -> Walter Benjamin -> Why are people doing it? what is it doing globally? -> anthropology 

affect/emotion lack or missing in technology research, genome, etc. Acknowledge limits of disciplines – Comes from the realisation that Digital Culture tends to focus on the development of hardware and software rather than on the cultural or person individual effect – Meme: I’m sad/upset but I send Memes all day, in a sadly way.  

Possible new Outline?

Digital Borders & Negotiations 
-Chapter image meme (Dawkins, Shifman)
-Chapter video (remix?)
-Chapter sounds (disrupt geographical place with sound)
-Chapter websites (Situationists)

To Do:
Send objectives to supervisors and keep in mind through the whole writing [bullet points as outline could help]

Send updated Draft by noon – 19 April Wednesday 

Next Supervision – 24 April Monday in Arts C – 10.30am

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Supervision 16/March/2017

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Arts C – 10am

General notes:

Since the written work is in English but sometimes incorporates usage of words in Spanish I’m encouraged to use the term as it is in Spanish allowing to explain the negotiation though language and why that word works better untranslated but also explaining the meaning in English.

Change order of paragraphs to fit better the general understanding, for example, the paragraph in page 4 of draft works better as Introduction since it reminds the actual thing happening in the writing. 

Bring up-front the thematic: DIGITAL BORDERS and negotiations, accessibility to certain people and non-accessibility (rationale)

This piece of draft (Meme image analysis) could become the 1st chapter, which is why is important to keep in mind the bigger picture outline along with the central theme, look at variations in theme and maybe incorporate later a chapter I want to do on just video and only sound.

Expand and clear the picture of word meme by incorporating a bigger picture of Dawkins work, who disagrees with him? what are the limits of his work? on what way am I applying it to culture and specifically memes? Do a similar thing with Lemor Shifman analysis on stance, form, context analysing and saying what I feel it lacks or needs to be incorporated to better analyse my content.

Expand, add-on history to have a better comparison. Similarly to the way I incorporated briefly Day of the Dead and Aztecs customs to compare as older form of media. [foot-holes?] It’s good to hear more about cultural frameworks of Mexico to give contrast with new meme.

The general project is about the process memes go through to become viral and remain (become part of culture), the project is not about the origin of memes. to do with evolution rather than genesis. Nevertheless, there is something in the original that sticks in the mind and gets chosen to recreate or duplicate.

How to discuss, address meme? discussion, critique on Dawkins, expand more on Dawkins time of genetics, genome critique [discuss limits of the definition]

Incorporate in the discussion Mimesis/Alterity TAUSSIG since he not only mentions and incorporates relevant elements but also gets hold of culture and the past to understand the present, in other words, on how culture is replicated across space.

1st Draft is good to be a stream of consciousness, but for 2nd keep in mind bullet points outline to hook and hang to topic. [Another draft could incorporate corrections and tips given in workshops on language I’ve been attending for Academic writing]

Incorporate in writing [possibly] if useful commercial meme & file size. They came from the discussion on how I posted all memes I got on photoshop to be aware of their actual size and you can see how the small ones are made for phone and the big ones were created by commercial websites that want their content to get likes therefore someone with design knowledge created them like Pictoline. *Archive in memes in Milenio and Aristegui are also worth mentioning.

*Reappropriation* -Page 7 on draft – mimesis TAUSSIG incorporation. Find more solid references, negotiate through visual images.

Bring in more examples for distinction between my 3 groups on how they could also merge or become their own thing [1. Politics & The Wall 2. Mexican Culture 3. Pop Culture movies and film] concepts using borders

CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY Reference – Gillian Rose [read and search references]

MIMESIS/ALTERITY

– Taussig -> Walter Benjamin -> Why are people doing it? what is it doing globally? -> anthropology 

affect/emotion lack or missing in technology research, genome, etc. Acknowledge limits of disciplines – Comes from the realisation that Digital Culture tends to focus on the development of hardware and software rather than on the cultural or person individual effect – Meme: I’m sad/upset but I send Memes all day, in a sadly way.  

Possible new Outline?

Digital Borders & Negotiations 
-Chapter image meme (Dawkins, Shifman)
-Chapter video (remix?)
-Chapter sounds (disrupt geographical place with sound)
-Chapter websites (Situationists)

To Do:
Send objectives to supervisors and keep in mind through the whole writing [bullet points as outline could help]

Send updated Draft by noon – 19 April Wednesday 

Next Supervision – 24 April Monday in Arts C – 10.30am

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Prototyping/Learning Update

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Lab work

Multimedia Design and Applications

 4-6pm (06/March/2017)

Left: 

Javascript and HTML 5 canvas

Learning html5 difference between using svg and MyCanvas in which you need to create a canvas but also a context where to draw, as well when writing for example a rectangle in contrast with Processing we also need to tell at the end to draw the function or it won’t appear ergo the need to draw: context.rect(x,y,w,h);
//meaning we are creating a rectangle in context but at the end adding the context.stroke();
//to actually draw it and make it appear

Right: Pixel Sorting with Save Image when clicking a key on keyboard

Updated my version of PixelSorting (Original Shiffman coding train #47) code to save an image when a key is pressed as well as sorted out why the size of image and background was different, is now working well if original size of image used is adjusted *check comments on code – In the future there is a need to incorporate the comments made by Emile on how it looks as a landscape of Mexican Culture (it even resembles an atardecer depending on colours used in memes) so it would be interesting to create a landscape on how the opposite would look like for example a meme collection of Trump supporters as the opposite of Mexican culture? //thought// 

For now an interest in creating new or different landscapes based on memes remains, for example, only Peña memes, El muro memes, Duarte one’s etc. but the idea to find and create the opposites remains although knowledge and research is pending upon which would be the actual opposite and of what. Also there is the thing that gathering and collecting all memes on photoshop is still a manual job as well as the acomodo of the same images since original size is respected on this first attempt but acomodo is randomly created by hand on Photoshop opening layer by layer due to difficulties of reading certain images when attempting to run a -Open in batch […]

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Prototyping/Learning Update

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Lab work

Multimedia Design and Applications

 4-6pm (06/March/2017)

Left: 

Javascript and HTML 5 canvas

Learning html5 difference between using svg and MyCanvas in which you need to create a canvas but also a context where to draw, as well when writing for example a rectangle in contrast with Processing we also need to tell at the end to draw the function or it won’t appear ergo the need to draw: context.rect(x,y,w,h);
//meaning we are creating a rectangle in context but at the end adding the context.stroke();
//to actually draw it and make it appear

Right: Pixel Sorting with Save Image when clicking a key on keyboard

Updated my version of PixelSorting (Original Shiffman coding train #47) code to save an image when a key is pressed as well as sorted out why the size of image and background was different, is now working well if original size of image used is adjusted *check comments on code – In the future there is a need to incorporate the comments made by Emile on how it looks as a landscape of Mexican Culture (it even resembles an atardecer depending on colours used in memes) so it would be interesting to create a landscape on how the opposite would look like for example a meme collection of Trump supporters as the opposite of Mexican culture? //thought// 

For now an interest in creating new or different landscapes based on memes remains, for example, only Peña memes, El muro memes, Duarte one’s etc. but the idea to find and create the opposites remains although knowledge and research is pending upon which would be the actual opposite and of what. Also there is the thing that gathering and collecting all memes on photoshop is still a manual job as well as the acomodo of the same images since original size is respected on this first attempt but acomodo is randomly created by hand on Photoshop opening layer by layer due to difficulties of reading certain images when attempting to run a -Open in batch […]

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Meme Map (Prototyping)

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Photoshop Prototyping

I had to manually go 10 image x 10 image to see which one’s showed a mistake in photoshop to then open using mpeg, take a frame and save again as a readable version. Since even the open all of them in layers didn’t work or Photomerge. Now it could work so future prototyping of options is needed as well as exporting to use in Processing

Data Collection up until 23(Feb/2017)

Processing: Pixel Sorting is being tested to later be applied to this meme collection and further discuss patterns or similarities in the collection

The idea behind the quick prototype is a culture map based on memes.

Culture, emotion and mind is poured and gazed through the collection of memes each of them speaking of a particular element that is decoded only by those inside the culture that can interpret them.

Video could have a similar prototype by creating a collection of remix and funny videos to do video mapping, prototyping is required but questions arise on what surface? where? physically etc.

Missing: -si merezco riqueza memes (collected in previous 2 posts), duro contra el muro political version, etc.

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“We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural…”

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“We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation. ‘Mimeme’ comes from a suitable Greek root, but I want a monosyllable that sounds a bit like ‘gene’. I hope my classicist friends will forgive me if I abbreviate mimeme to meme. If it is any consolation, it could alternatively be thought of as being related to ‘memory’, or to the French word même. It should be pronounced to rhyme with ‘cream’.”

– Dawkins, Richard (1989), The Selfish Gene (2 ed.), Oxford University Press, p. 192, ISBN 0-19-286092-5

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“We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural…”

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“We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation. ‘Mimeme’ comes from a suitable Greek root, but I want a monosyllable that sounds a bit like ‘gene’. I hope my classicist friends will forgive me if I abbreviate mimeme to meme. If it is any consolation, it could alternatively be thought of as being related to ‘memory’, or to the French word même. It should be pronounced to rhyme with ‘cream’.”

– Dawkins, Richard (1989), The Selfish Gene (2 ed.), Oxford University Press, p. 192, ISBN 0-19-286092-5

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Mexico Sounds Archive (Pending Idea)

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Andaba yo buscando si existe algo así como un Mexico Sounds Archive pero de sonidos típicos ya saben tipo hay tamalees, el gaas, el güerito güerito de los helados, el silbido de los camotes, sobran o faltan?, el que te dice a donde va el pesero, organillero, etc. y encontré cosas bien padres

Mapa Sonoro de México con geo-localización, es lo más cercano a lo que buscaba pero le faltan muchos sonidos, lo bueno que es CreativeCommons y puedes subir tus sonidos si creas una cuenta

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Sonidos en peligro de extinción de la Fonoteca, topen el sonido del merenguero

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Aerófonos Mexicanos (con foto y sound sample, uff sencilla la interfaz pero super interesante, lo que le falta a la geo-localización creo yo)Instrumentos Musicales, Resonadores y Artefactos Sonoros de Viento o Aliento del México Antiguo

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Mexican Cylinders: Of National Identity and Sound RecordingsSonidos de 1904-1910 topen el jarabe tapatio

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P.S. Quiero hacer un proyecto alrededor de todos estos sonidos peero aún no tengo idea de qué, o cómo o por qué (PhD life XD) así que si se les ocurren otros sonidos típicos?, culturales?, mexicanos?, latinos? sonidos de internet included?…avísenme (voz del meme)   

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List of Internet phenomena

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This is a partial list of social and cultural phenomena specific to the Internet, such as popular themes,catchphrases, images, viral videos, and jokes. When such fads and sensations occur online, they tend to grow rapidly and become more widespread because the instant communication facilitates word of mouth.

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A meme is “an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture”.[2] 

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A viral video[1][2] is a video that becomes popular through a viral process of Internet sharing, typically through video sharing websites, social mediaand email.[3][4]

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