authoring critical media [GAFFTA]
"Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding" -Clifford Stoll
This piece is based on the series of Design Dialogues as a critical approach to the lecture that Josette Melchor gave at MDP.
During the talk, I decided to document her with an old toy camera called "Pixelvision". The footage came out as this beautiful static that was completely unexpected.
It made me reflect about Josette Melchor and Grey Area Foundation.
Josette Melchor is currently in charge of this new space that supports media artists. As she started the lecture, she emphasized the fact that GAFFTA (Grey Area Foundation For The Arts) was located in the Tenderloin district in San Francisco and how this was important for the Bay Area, gentrification and social issues related to the neighborhood. I guess I thought this was important in terms of setting a context for the foundation, but as the lecture went on, I realized that there were all this layers of information that weren´t about data visualization and media artists.
I decided to reflect on this by making a live transcript from the audio of the lecture, were I set the constriction of trying to capture as much text as possible without going back on the track. The transcript then was a document of the information that was retained in a first go of her speech. From that transcript the first layer of information to analyze were the words that were repeated the most throughout the Design Dialogues session. The second layer is the relationship within the words. The third layer is the discovery of words that were completely off the script, as well as the position of the words in the layout.
The format chosen was of a print in vellum paper, this is with the purpose to see the different layers of information, interpretation and misinterpretation that occurs through data visualization and the use of different media.
The final outcome is a print version of all the data I lost first hand with the Pixelvision, but compiled in an analysis with a critical response.
Instructor: Anne Burdick/Ben Hooker
This piece is based on the series of Design Dialogues as a critical approach to the lecture that Josette Melchor gave at MDP.
During the talk, I decided to document her with an old toy camera called "Pixelvision". The footage came out as this beautiful static that was completely unexpected.
Design Dialogues on Pixelvision from ana rifa! on Vimeo.
It made me reflect about Josette Melchor and Grey Area Foundation.
Josette Melchor is currently in charge of this new space that supports media artists. As she started the lecture, she emphasized the fact that GAFFTA (Grey Area Foundation For The Arts) was located in the Tenderloin district in San Francisco and how this was important for the Bay Area, gentrification and social issues related to the neighborhood. I guess I thought this was important in terms of setting a context for the foundation, but as the lecture went on, I realized that there were all this layers of information that weren´t about data visualization and media artists.
I decided to reflect on this by making a live transcript from the audio of the lecture, were I set the constriction of trying to capture as much text as possible without going back on the track. The transcript then was a document of the information that was retained in a first go of her speech. From that transcript the first layer of information to analyze were the words that were repeated the most throughout the Design Dialogues session. The second layer is the relationship within the words. The third layer is the discovery of words that were completely off the script, as well as the position of the words in the layout.
The format chosen was of a print in vellum paper, this is with the purpose to see the different layers of information, interpretation and misinterpretation that occurs through data visualization and the use of different media.
The final outcome is a print version of all the data I lost first hand with the Pixelvision, but compiled in an analysis with a critical response.
Instructor: Anne Burdick/Ben Hooker