Moving on

After the research part of my project proved fairly uninteresting and has not much further to go, I have decided to explore a different route.


However, the last 6 weeks have not been a waste of time:

• I learnt about the meaning, purpose and origins of technology by reading David Nye and Giorgio Agamben and researching Aristotle.
• I thought critically about the different platforms of social media and their powerful effects on society.
• I considered how visual communicators using technology to their advantage as a creative practice.
• A visit to the V&A Post-modernism show provided ideas about technology vs. real life/ real people
• Then I delved into experiments regarding blogs as online art exhibitions (displaying my own work as an example) and comparing the types of blogs available.

I revealed that you can make almost identical websites using each blog provider and that their popularity often depends more on the followers (what kind of people they are and therefore which blog site they prefer to use*) than the blog itself.
*Though I reached some interesting conclusions about this I don't think these ideas were very exciting or original.

A previous project I was involved in, organising exhibitions in unusual places.

I explored taking artwork out of context (by posting it online) and new meaning this gave to images. I was planning to compare displays of artwork in the real world and online, for example, what would the real life equivalent of a blog look like. This does not interest me enough to continue and I would prefer to work with something more personal...