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The imaginary interactive artifact in 3 fictions
1.The Winter Market:
There is a machine that can capture the environments of someone’s imaginary world. They can be some memories of the past, imaginations of the future, some dreams that emerge when the person was sleeping, or entirely groundless fantasies. The machine can accept and show these imaginary images as they exist in someones’ mind. When showing, it can use some special technologies, such as holographic laser projection, and maybe the use of sound and wind and temperature control, to make the presentation quite immersive. For example, if I once went to Tibet and I really want to experience the unforgettable travel again, I could use the machine to make the landscape, the sunlight (not only light, but also warmth), the breeze on the plateau reappear again.
However, this can also cause serious problems. As far as I’m concerned, if someone wants to read and show another world in another person’s mind with that person’s permission, it can be seen as a severe violation of that person’s privacy.
2. Newton’s Sleep
In the novel, since the environment on earth has been uninhabitable extremely elite people build themselves a spaceport called Spes and live there, abandoning those who are intellectually inferior. Rationalism cannot solve all the problems. I want to make an artifact that calls back people’s empathy and memorizes people on earth. People in Spes can enter their personal information into a program and the program can find out where their hometown is and show them how it currently looks like, how the life of people living there is, the number, names and ages of earth people living there, and if there was any social/relative relationship between the elite people and some of the earth people, or relationship between people in their families. Maybe there can be a little cube that enables the elite people to have an immersive experience of living on earth.
This artifact may only cause some emotional changes or some humanistic thinking, it cannot solve the problem in a short time. Actually for me I cannot see how can the problem be solved easily. Also, I think it need to collect a mass of data.
3.The Fish of Lijiang:
Aging looks fearful, either in our real society or in this fiction. I’m thinking about making an interactive artifact that attaches some humanistic care to the anxiety of aging. If we can change aging to some kind of art, it may not look as terrible as how it feels like. There can be a camera to capture people’s faces and extract the trace on someone’s face that shows age, such as wrinkles and age spots. After analyzing, the installation can draw a beautiful painting based on lines and spots captured, by making changes and/or adding other elements.
Maybe privacy is also an important point that we can consider when playing with this installation because it has to capture people’s facial information. Besides, I haven’t come up with other problems yet.
In our image
- What does Ritchin mean with the “fluidity of the digital”? Give an example of digital imaging/digital photography that exemplifies this.
Ritchin mentioned these words when he said “the fidelity of the mechanical was being replaced by the fluidity of the digital”. From my perspectives, with the technology developing people can use some technological methods to modify pictures, such as photoshops. When changing the elements in the photos, people broke the reality recorded in the photo.
For example, people can hide blemishes of their outlook to make them look more beautiful. This is the simplest situation. What is more serious is that someone may use photo modifying technology to spread rumors or even erase a person’s existence.
There is another condition is that some photographers will set a scene and play it just like what a director usually do when taking movies. The scene showed is not the reality, but what the photographer wants the audience to see.
This photo shoes how adult bird feeds its children, but actually since baby bird can’t fly they usually stay in the nest instead of standing on the smooth branch which is highly dangerous.So baby birds in this photo is placed on the branch by the photographer. And someone even ties the birds on the branch so they won’t fall off. It’s not an encouraged behavior, but it’s common in bird shooting.
2.Reflect on the extent to which photography is capable of capturing reality; and compare it to other media (technology) (e.g. text, video, virtual reality, books).
I think photography can capture the reality when it correspond to the following situation:(1)the photo presented to the audience has never been modified. (2)things in the photo is what really happened, which means it’s not a scene elaborately arranged by the photographer. If so, at least, the photograph take its responsibility to present the reality. As for what information the audience get from the photo, it’s actually the issue about understanding rather than presenting.
In comparison with other media, photography seems to be more real than texts, book, and other media that is only composed by words. These media can be easily affected by the writer’s emotion, stand, or writing ability, so they tend to be subjective inevitably, losing the possibility to present the 100% truth. Photos, though slight, it still keep some chances to achieve it.
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