NMD 206
In response to “Modern Living / Neurotica” + “Nobody Here”: How does each create a new and strange mirror on what it means to be human? Modern Living/Neurotica is extremely fascinating. It consists of a collection of interactive gifs in the way that it responds […]
Nobody Here Nobody here is a website that allows people to speak what’s really going on in their mind and have different takes on how our society functions. This technology is allowing us to take the wool from our eyes and see ourselves for who […]
From the index of past autobotographies, I selected two that had abstracts that intrigued me.
With today’s many-to-many media we are surrounded by technology that adds to our global presence. As individuals, we are able to extend ourselves into the digital space, that creates a part of us that connects to the web of individuals. These selves are independent of […]
Projects: Jennicam & Phage Jennicam: This project or reality TV-like website that Jennifer Ringley started in 1996, before I was even born, was a weirdly revolutionary idea and thought provoking project, even though it was mundane, pornographic, and frankly creepy at times. Before we had […]
Jennicam I’m surprised that, before reading these articles, I had never heard of Jennicam, given how much of a cultural phenomenon it was. The most intriguing thing about Jennifer Ringley’s project is that, although it did create a ‘new and strange mirror’ reflecting human nature, […]
If media shape us, then what shape do we see through the media? How do the vehicles/technology of many-to-many media shape what kinds of selves are possible? Media gives us an opportunity to have a second identity. This new version of one’s self is not […]
I feel like Wearcam and Shooting back are super interesting to talk about as their implication, the gravity of their subject, has changed enormously over the past couple of years. That subject being constant observation. In these two pieces, which we talked a good bit […]
Review two Autobotography projects: James A’s Black Box project – http://206.nmdprojects.net/2017/autobotography-approach-jamesa/ In this project, James seeks to reveal a hidden relationship that a game-maker or coder has with their audience through the use of seeing hidden commented out code in the game or site […]
If media shapes us, then what shape do we see through the media? How do the vehicles/technology of many-to-many media shape what kinds of selves are possible? Pick 2 autbotography projects and review thoroughly. How does each create a new and strange mirror on what […]
First Autobotography project- JenniCam. Jennicam was live video footage of the creator, Jenni, giving viewers a direct view of her everyday life. She had these cameras up for seven years. This isn’t exactly shaping what she was doing as a human, but rather using […]
In the phage video a mirror of what it means to be human especially in this day and age is created by pulling things found on one’s computer and displaying them. The self presented with the new technology of the application that pulls things from […]
Jennicam is probably the largest and most influential of the projects we’ve been shown for autobotography. The project showed the everyday activities of Jennifer Ringley through webcams that she set up. It gave a very different look into human life than what people were used […]
Jennicam: Jennicam was an innovative concept at the time it started. Jenni set up a series of cameras where she lived and allowed viewers to watch whenever they pleased, witnessing her most intimate parts of life. It eventually got to the point where she […]
JenniCam: I have always heard about JenniCam, but not until this class and the readings, did I really understand the amount of influence it had on today’s world. JenniCam, or Jennifer Ringley was a college student who set up her webcam to take a […]
My take on the “Nobody Here” and “Life Sharing 2000-03” projects and how they tie into our Autobotography theme.