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Hello! My name is Chris and I am a student studying at the University of Greenwich. My course of interest is Digital Arts Practice, and I have been set an assignment that will run its course over the academic year 2017 / 2018. This will be the production of a project of my choosing, where I will conceptualise and propose my project to my supervisors, followed by carrying out the necessary steps to complete it the best way I can! In this blog you will find the process of my project from the initial thought and idea, to the finished product. Please do take time to read it and I hope you find yourselves fulfilled with whatever you find!
Bio
I wanted to write a little bit more about myself in this section. I felt that this will be a useful way to break the ice and provide an insight into the ideas for my project. As I mentioned before, my name is Chris, I am 23 years old and I am studying Digital Arts Practice at the university of Greenwich. To the average reader, the name of this course may sound unfamiliar, in fact only up until recently did I gain a well grounded level of understanding as to what it is that I am actually studying. In simple terms Digital art is a converted piece, where actual physical art has been taken and transformed into digital format.
For example you may be walking down an alley way and on the wall you see a series of graffiti physically sprayed unto the wall. Once you have taken a photograph with your camera (Depending on whether it uses analogue film or digital memory), the photograph itself will become a form of digital art. So to practice digital art means to experiment with technologies to create pieces of digital art.
I usually tell those who ask me to elaborate that I am doing media studies since that is the closest thing to the subject that actually makes sense. However, after understanding what it actually is I find myself embarrassed that I have been ludicrously defining it up until the final year of my course. I decided to study this course because I have been fascinated with the production of film and tv.
Unfortunately I was rather blinkered to the prospectus of the University and did not realise that film and tv was a stand alone degree program. On the other hand this assisted me in realising that my fascination was not purely based on those two factors, as I have also been deeply fascinated with the creation of music, games, animations and pictures. The origin of this passion however, stems from the study of the mind and how human beings create and interact with these elements of media.
As my passion grew, I attempted to retain myself from focusing on sole aspects of the mind and the media. however I could not help but concern myself with a few scenarios such as: The expanse of mobile phone technology and how it may be affecting personality, how the growing world of social media may be creating an infinite series of complications in the mind and so on. Now of course I am merely creating these issues out of pure speculation, however when it comes to my personal life and how I have developed alongside the advances of technology, I cannot help but wonder what is really going on in todays technological society.
I consider myself to be highly extroverted, It has taken me a fascinatingly long while to come to that conclusion but here I am. The confusion in figuring this out came from the fact that in the world of today I am not so keen on spending time with others or being the loudest person in the group. I feel like this is strongly related to the fact that the energy I absorb from ‘living in the moment’ no longer satisfies nor does it outweigh the disadvantages of being an extrovert. Now of course this could be as a result of an infinite number of variables, however one which I will suspect is part of that list is this growing notion of technology and social media.
As a result of these changes whatever the cause may be, I have developed a taste for creating representations of myself, that is in ways where I can still absorb the same level of energy as before. I do so by rapping, which is something I have always been passionate about from a young age. I feel that the art is a specific way of representing yourself in a form that is ‘Larger than life’ where you exaggerate yourself in such a way that the listener can almost feel what is going on in your mind. Of course nowadays music is all online so even if I was only keen on my peers to listen, I would have to represent myself on the media, which is interesting because it is in this instance where I seem to gain the energy I desire.
I consider myself fortunate and feel rather grateful that I have been given an opportunity to explore a subject that I have such a deep interest for, however I also realise that my ambitions can lead me to create over complicated theories and expectations of myself. I therefore wish to use this platform as a means for humble beginnings, that is where I begin to question the mere possibility of representing the mind through digital media.
What I have written thus far is a compilation of different ideas that will be filtered through a rigorous academic discipline, which will finalise the question that will be proposed not only to my course leaders, but also my class peers, other university students, friends and family. What this means in my eyes is that whatever the answer to whatever question I propose, the mere idea of releasing the final result of this process holds potential in influencing the minds of many groups and individuals around me. This is frightening not only for logical reasons, but personal reasons also. I must remind myself however that this is an academic course, I therefore write informally in this section to give myself what may be the only opportunity to explain my theoretical and methodological process from a passionate point of view. On the other hand, I also use this section to create ease of access and understanding for any individual who will indulge in observing a longitudinal process of creative practice. With all that being said I would like to let you know that I am greatly inspired that you would follow me along this journey and welcome you to my final year project:
For example you may be walking down an alley way and on the wall you see a series of graffiti physically sprayed unto the wall. Once you have taken a photograph with your camera (Depending on whether it uses analogue film or digital memory), the photograph itself will become a form of digital art. So to practice digital art means to experiment with technologies to create pieces of digital art.
I usually tell those who ask me to elaborate that I am doing media studies since that is the closest thing to the subject that actually makes sense. However, after understanding what it actually is I find myself embarrassed that I have been ludicrously defining it up until the final year of my course. I decided to study this course because I have been fascinated with the production of film and tv.
Unfortunately I was rather blinkered to the prospectus of the University and did not realise that film and tv was a stand alone degree program. On the other hand this assisted me in realising that my fascination was not purely based on those two factors, as I have also been deeply fascinated with the creation of music, games, animations and pictures. The origin of this passion however, stems from the study of the mind and how human beings create and interact with these elements of media.
As my passion grew, I attempted to retain myself from focusing on sole aspects of the mind and the media. however I could not help but concern myself with a few scenarios such as: The expanse of mobile phone technology and how it may be affecting personality, how the growing world of social media may be creating an infinite series of complications in the mind and so on. Now of course I am merely creating these issues out of pure speculation, however when it comes to my personal life and how I have developed alongside the advances of technology, I cannot help but wonder what is really going on in todays technological society.
I consider myself to be highly extroverted, It has taken me a fascinatingly long while to come to that conclusion but here I am. The confusion in figuring this out came from the fact that in the world of today I am not so keen on spending time with others or being the loudest person in the group. I feel like this is strongly related to the fact that the energy I absorb from ‘living in the moment’ no longer satisfies nor does it outweigh the disadvantages of being an extrovert. Now of course this could be as a result of an infinite number of variables, however one which I will suspect is part of that list is this growing notion of technology and social media.
As a result of these changes whatever the cause may be, I have developed a taste for creating representations of myself, that is in ways where I can still absorb the same level of energy as before. I do so by rapping, which is something I have always been passionate about from a young age. I feel that the art is a specific way of representing yourself in a form that is ‘Larger than life’ where you exaggerate yourself in such a way that the listener can almost feel what is going on in your mind. Of course nowadays music is all online so even if I was only keen on my peers to listen, I would have to represent myself on the media, which is interesting because it is in this instance where I seem to gain the energy I desire.
I consider myself fortunate and feel rather grateful that I have been given an opportunity to explore a subject that I have such a deep interest for, however I also realise that my ambitions can lead me to create over complicated theories and expectations of myself. I therefore wish to use this platform as a means for humble beginnings, that is where I begin to question the mere possibility of representing the mind through digital media.
What I have written thus far is a compilation of different ideas that will be filtered through a rigorous academic discipline, which will finalise the question that will be proposed not only to my course leaders, but also my class peers, other university students, friends and family. What this means in my eyes is that whatever the answer to whatever question I propose, the mere idea of releasing the final result of this process holds potential in influencing the minds of many groups and individuals around me. This is frightening not only for logical reasons, but personal reasons also. I must remind myself however that this is an academic course, I therefore write informally in this section to give myself what may be the only opportunity to explain my theoretical and methodological process from a passionate point of view. On the other hand, I also use this section to create ease of access and understanding for any individual who will indulge in observing a longitudinal process of creative practice. With all that being said I would like to let you know that I am greatly inspired that you would follow me along this journey and welcome you to my final year project:
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