Author: Daniel Ackerman

EcoArt Approach – DanielA

An Inconvenient View 2: Crowdsource Boogaloo  (or How I Learned to Stop Caring and Love the Heat) A crowd sourced production showing the effects of climate change around the world. Background Based on feedback from the class, the process of View’s creation will include more […]

EcoArt Intent – DanielA

  An Inconvenient View 3D video project of various landscapes affected by climate change around the world. View is inspired by An Inconvenient Truth (2006) and Chasing Ice (2012), two documentaries focused on the effects of climate change on our planet. Functionality wise, it’d be a set of […]

Approach 2 – DanielA

Project Mirror An intimate view of the lives of average people. Background This project was inspired by Jenni-cam. It will press users into thinking about how they feel about being seen a they are when others generally aren’t looking, and will allow viewers of the […]

Autobotography Intent – DanielA

Project Mirror Summary An intimate, self-filmed documentary of daily that will reveal the identity that is hidden by social media. Description People use their phones and laptops to create an online persona that’s the most interesting and attractive version of themselves. People generally don’t express […]

Response 3 – DanielA

Modern Living & Neurotica Hoogerbbrugge work seems to be a reflection of our inward perception of ourselves at times of personal conflict, and many pieces have rather disturbing imagery. Hoogerbbugge’s unseen, disturbed self is demonstrated in his artworks. Most seem to be representations of feelings […]

Approach 1 – DanielA

inFact Background inFact is an app that would allow a many-to-many strategy to fact-check current controversial topics. All news sources are biased, so it’s up to the users of inFact to find sources to back up claims. More sources means more citations on the topics […]

Hacktivism Intent 1b – DanielA

inFact User generated fact-checking platform. After listening to other pitches and critiques, I realized a better intent would be to have user-generated content on an app. This should be more effective than putting numbers up because users would be able to live-update information about current […]

Hacktivism Intent – DanielA

Well, factually… A fact-checking infographic publishing service. So, thinking about the two ideas we came up with last week, I realized that both of them alone are rather boring and, frankly, a little too easy. A better approach, I believe would be to create infographics […]

Response 2 – DanielA

ISSUE: Media Integrity People consume one or two media sources, but every source is biased. Some are more liberal or conservative, but each panders to a specific audience. It’s unlikely that consumers of these sources consider opposing viewpoints, or see hard numbers outside of a […]

Response 1 – DanielA

Some of the ideas about crowd sourcing and taking the fabrication away from the big corporations are really interesting to me. Personally, crowdsourcing a creative venture seemed a little odd to me, at first, but it makes sense after seeing some of the end-products. Additionally, […]