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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? Pick 2 autbotography projects and review thoroughly. How does each create a new and strange mirror on what it […]
If media shape us, then what shape do we see through the media? It depends on the resolution of your screen. Pick 2 autobiography projects and review thoroughly. How does each create a new and strange mirror on what it means to be human? JenniCAM Review: […]
Response 2 Jessica Commeau. May 23 2018 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? I would argue that not only do we shape media, […]
Kaleb Traverso-Penn NMD 206 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? The way we see media, is something that can be changed or context to […]
I remember going through this rather strange piece titled Modern Living for the first time, and thinking it was about a suicidal man. Or at least one going through severe depression, what with the smoking scenes, and the darker tone to most of the parts. […]
Nobody Here- Nobody here is really a website “for the people.” It is exactly what you want to take away from it. Personally for me, it is extremely overwhelming. Every click takes you somewhere new and it’s like those Pick Your Adventure books where you’re […]
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 aut0botography projects and review thoroughly. How does each create a new and strange mirror on what […]
In today’s society we portray ourselves online to be fraternity stars, party animals, young academics, jockeys, douchebags, and basic girls. With new technologies forming that constitute social media, a new layer of humanity was formed with social media empowering our society. But when people portray […]
Sam W Approach (2017) I think this is a really interesting project, the fact that we only show our “most groomed” selves online is pretty true and this project directly attacks that. I like that the project takes pictures when you aren’t prepared because that […]
Austin Thibeau An autobiography a piece created about a person created by that person. Autobotography is not a real word, but we can guess that the term means a digital version of self. Whether that be the creator or maybe someone unrelated to the creator. […]
Nobody Here Review: Nobody Here is an odd website that we spent a reasonable amount of class time exploring. Its contents range from hallucinogenic imagery to cursive words and splattered paint. It exists if not for only one, than for everyone. The viewer is […]
Projects: Jennicam & Life Sharing Jennicam I chose to look at this project because of how seemingly simple it is, for how much of a cultural phenomena it was. The project started in 1996 and lasted for roughly 7 years until new restrictions forced Jenny […]
Modern Living: Many of these animations represented conflicts with the selves we wear in public and the selves we truly are. One, for instance, has a man removing a layer from his face and flies buzz out from the removed layer. This makes me think […]
Autobotography Response JennyCam Jenny Cam can be described as the first reality tv show or streaming show of the world. It was first started in 1996 by Jenny in her college dorm, and it lasted a whole seven years. That’s a long time before […]
Smart Clothing The conveniences that the author of this article was trying to provide to the public with this wearable technology can today mostly all be done with just a smartphone. The mirror that this creates on what it means to be human is dependance […]
Jennicam was the first foray into lifecasting. Lifecasting raised a lot of questions about the relationship between people and technology. One question raised by this was what it meant to be someone on the internet, what was the relationship between people and their online […]
Steven Mann’s Wearcam and Shooting Back: Wearcam and Shootingback are inventions that retrace snippets of one’s daily physical life. They may have been considered outlandish and ultra modern but are quickly becoming the new norm of humans’ desire or need to video the events […]
Autobotography Intent-ColeT I found that the idea of creating a 3D representation of your life to be an intriguing way to express the important aspects in your life. It is these events in one’s life which help to make up each individual’s personality. Despite this, […]
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 […]