Programming Media : Exercise 1
Project: Emergence and Navigating Space
Project: Emergence and Navigating Space
Due 9 January 2008
1. Find an image at the Space Collective that you find fascinating.
2. Search for and find an image within the context of the Space Collective that has not been posted.
This image of a woman's face attached to a mechanical brain struck a chord with me because it is indicative of the direction humans are going in. It is "Vignette #3" for Kungfai Visual. On the image's website ( http://www.kungfai.cn/) there is a video about it. In the video the beautiful face is clamped and turned by three mechanical grips and then placed on top of a brain-sized machine. The eye opens and tears pour out while the face remains expressionless. Then the face falls off of the machine and the eye and the machine continue to drip tears.
This represents the loneliness of a world taken over by machines and the impact of technology on human beings. It also shows the absurdity of how far people will go for the sake of beauty. Plastic surgery is becoming more and more commonplace and people are choosing to adapt their natural features to conform or to impress. Humans destroy humans with the help of the machines they created. Also, prosthetics, plastic surgery, and brain chips are slowly turning people into robots. Humans manipulating nature with the use of technology is a growing and controversial field of work.
The image I decided to add is a photoshopped image of a forest chopped down in the shape of a question mark. It is supposed to represent crop circles and the mystery behind them and about who or what created them. Some people believe aliens made them, some think they are natural, and others think they are created by humans as a hoax. What is the difference? This image also means more than that to me, however. It also represents the confusing mixture of technology with nature in farming and agriculture. It represents deforestation and human self-destruction. Humans burn down natural forests and put toxic chemicals into the air and envirionment.
I think globalization and its effects on planet earth are very relevant to the Space Collective because earth is the only planet we currently know of with intelligent life. I don't know how intelligent you could really call the humans living on planet earth, but nevertheless, earth is tiny in comparison to the rest of the universe. Some day humans may turn to living on other planets or in outer space if earth gets too polluted or overpopulated.
1. Find an image at the Space Collective that you find fascinating.
2. Search for and find an image within the context of the Space Collective that has not been posted.
This image of a woman's face attached to a mechanical brain struck a chord with me because it is indicative of the direction humans are going in. It is "Vignette #3" for Kungfai Visual. On the image's website ( http://www.kungfai.cn/) there is a video about it. In the video the beautiful face is clamped and turned by three mechanical grips and then placed on top of a brain-sized machine. The eye opens and tears pour out while the face remains expressionless. Then the face falls off of the machine and the eye and the machine continue to drip tears.
This represents the loneliness of a world taken over by machines and the impact of technology on human beings. It also shows the absurdity of how far people will go for the sake of beauty. Plastic surgery is becoming more and more commonplace and people are choosing to adapt their natural features to conform or to impress. Humans destroy humans with the help of the machines they created. Also, prosthetics, plastic surgery, and brain chips are slowly turning people into robots. Humans manipulating nature with the use of technology is a growing and controversial field of work.
The image I decided to add is a photoshopped image of a forest chopped down in the shape of a question mark. It is supposed to represent crop circles and the mystery behind them and about who or what created them. Some people believe aliens made them, some think they are natural, and others think they are created by humans as a hoax. What is the difference? This image also means more than that to me, however. It also represents the confusing mixture of technology with nature in farming and agriculture. It represents deforestation and human self-destruction. Humans burn down natural forests and put toxic chemicals into the air and envirionment.
I think globalization and its effects on planet earth are very relevant to the Space Collective because earth is the only planet we currently know of with intelligent life. I don't know how intelligent you could really call the humans living on planet earth, but nevertheless, earth is tiny in comparison to the rest of the universe. Some day humans may turn to living on other planets or in outer space if earth gets too polluted or overpopulated.
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