Bad blogging habit.

i have a terrible habit with blogging, where by i save things to drafts and never post them, and forget about them.

FINAL THOUGHTS :

The most valuable lesson I learned from Art&Tech is that technology is a temperamental media. there is a significant amount of planning that needs to be done as well as knowing the nature of the particular type of technology you are dealing with and its idiosyncrasies. Chances are I should have learned this lesson when 2 years ago my lap top just stopped working, midterms week, and then my flash drive went missing. Never the less, in this class specifically, it was challenging to work projects into technology, not the other way around. If you don't think technologically, you work will suffer. If you are over ambitious - your work will suffer. There is, I think, an expectation, at least for me, that naively thinks that "oh, that will work" or "how hard can that be?". The truth is, that won't work, its harder than you think, and anything that can go wrong will go wrong and if you think you've fixed it, please, think again.

Group Work
It is really difficult to work with technology you aren't sure if it will work, but add other people's temperaments, schedules, lives with an already temperamental medium, and you've got stressed out right there. That's really all I have to say on that.

Sound:
Reflection : Circuit bending is a low art, its low tech, low fi, and mildly si-fi. It should stay that way. Why? This goes into an "unmonumental" type argument. I think, personally, that there should be a refinement to academic work either conceptually, or physically. It is really, almost unachievable with a method like Circuit bending, if re contexualizing is the concept, we were already handed that. Art historically speaking, John Cage would have been amused, but he already took the avante-sound to an installation style and performance style (this is mostly for my own thoughts on the piece my group did an a flaws i found within my way of approaching it, not the assignment - to clarify. this is more or less, a self evaluation of approach.)

Social Change :
I attempted to keep it clean simple and basic for my own means and sanity. That didn't pan out too well. While i do think there was an awareness element, I have that, and what sort of feeling. Visually im pleased with the map. and physically, when it did work i was pleased with that. however personally, social change is a medium for action, not technology. as far as im concerned, technology is overwhelming the social change movement, and the information has those who are concerned stretched emotionally thin, and overwhelmed. I do however firmly believe that knowledge is the first step. (again, self evaluation of approach upon further reflection)

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