ED.MENENDEZ_THESIS

Building and Rebuilding v.01

2009-04-26T22:56:00.001-07:00

After struggling with the idea of how to take into form my thesis I decided to build a thing, what I called the "WALL". The following posts and pics are snapshots about the process of how to build this environment.

New Precedents: searching my own language

2009-01-18T19:16:00.000-08:00

This list gathers works that touch the idea of collective construction.

John Maeda:
FontPark Tree
This work has a correlation with my idea of collective construction.
http://www.maedastudio.com/2001/moritree/index.php?category=all&next=1995/mdn1&prev=2004/samsung&this=moritree

Zach Lieberman:
Gesture Machines/ Mix Master

Even though this is not an audiovisual project it has the idea of mixing different inputs and creating a mean interpretation of them.
http://www.theremediproject.com/projects/issue12/systemisgesture/

Golan Levin:
Ghost Pole Propagator

this project has similarities with mine in the sense of creating not only a collective construction but also the sense of leaving a trace for a while.
http://www.flong.com/projects/gpp/

Sketches for the video simulation

2008-12-02T22:34:00.000-08:00

Sketchs of possible monuments

2008-12-02T20:54:00.001-08:00

Site Specific notes

2008-12-02T16:18:00.000-08:00

List of requirements for my site specific:
este es un monumento para quien quiere extender su permanencia en ese lugar
or TIME SPECIFIC?

"a site implies an audience"

Public Space:

Parks:
Central Park

Public Libraries:
NY public Library
archive

Subway Station:

Monuments:
note: most of the monuments have to deal with wars, heroes, or people who are dead.
statue of liberty

Bus Stop:
bus shelter

Airport:
La guardia
JFK

Train Station:

Museums: are places of dead things, things of the past
but they archive of the past
Museo del Barrio

Galleries:
Chelsea

Schedule to the next of the semester

2008-12-02T15:48:00.000-08:00

TUESDAY 2ND
1. Script for the simulation
2. Plan of schedule
3. Break down of the options of site specific

TUESDAT 2ND 9PM UNTIL THURSDAY 4TH 3PM
1. Software design and develop, graphic options, as navigation system of the software
2. Quick research of hardware options

THURSDAY 4TH 3PM UNTIL MONDAY 8TH 6PM
1. Shooting and Editing. Not be done at this date but will have the outline of the movie
2. Work on my final presentation

TUESDAY 9TH 10AM UNTIL THURSDAY 11TH 6PM
1. Finishing the video editing of the simulation.
2. Work on my final presentation

THURSDAY 11TH 9PM UNTIL SATURDAY 13TH 6PM
1. Rehears my presentation
2. work on details

SUNDAY 14 9am to 6pm
FINAL PRESENTATION

Next Steps for the following two weeks

2008-12-02T15:42:00.000-08:00

1. Usability
test the last prototype in a public space with real people

2. Location
find a site specific location
list the requirements for your ideal place

list for my site specific:

3. Possible Implementation
software design
hardware design
design of the physical structure
Options for the display: LCD screen, wacom tablet, smart surface

4. The System
timespan
navigation
details of the "look and feel"

5. Flowchart of the Process

6. Final Deriverable
video simulation: user's scenario - Script

Surfaces

2008-11-24T17:06:00.000-08:00

Miscellaneous

2008-11-12T18:02:00.000-08:00

While I was reading my notebook in the train. I realized that there were lots of notes that I haven't posted and which I think are worth to post. Here they are this miscellaneous thoughts about my thesis:

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Condillac:
"imagination then will represent but hte same images that they had already expressed by the actions and words, and which had, from the beginnings, made language figurative and metaphoric. The most natural means was therefore to draw the pictures of things. To express the idea of a man or a horse the form of one or the other will be represented, and the first attempt at writing was but a simple painting."

Yumi Endo:
"sound signature may not always be the name of the person"

Signature notes:
the notes that people write on the library books
"institutions use the same media as graffiti (i.e. when they fix a street they first make marks on how they will work)"

Questions:
who will be interested in sound besides musicians?

Design artifacts are "materialized ideologies"

Philip L. Wagner:
"everything about the body is in itself a declaration slight facial movements, posture, posture, position of the hands, levels of the voice, breathing rhythm, body, heat and perspiration, skin color, odors, every motion"

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE SUBJECT AND HIS SIGNATURE

no address = no names = no signature

Derrida:
"the ambiguity of the meaning of the word communication is reduced by the context. As much as we limit the context more clear will be the communication"

VOICE as SOUND = define individuality
VOICE as LANGUAGE = collectivity

Olga Rodriguez:
"It is important that in a city like NY with so many linguistic and social contrasts the phenomenon of the voice can be visualize"

signature = mirror/reflection = interpretation of one self
the signature is design by yourself not by others

Lacan: "the building of the subject is done by the other"

Derrida:
"the signature replaces the author"

David Carson in the documentary "HELVETICA"
"dont confuse legibility with communication. Just because something is legible, doesnt mean it communicates. And more importantly doesn't mean it communicates the right thing"

Zach Lieberman:
"Interaction Design is about asking the correct question"

Morley:
"the imagined community is, in fact, usually constructed in the language of some particular ethos, membership of which then effectively becomes a prerequisite for the enjoyment of a political citizenship within the nation-state"

Mary Douglas
"Home involves regular patterns of activity and structures in time"

Hybrid Voice/Music Applications for iphone

2008-11-07T09:56:00.000-08:00

Thanks to Donny after he gave me a hand last week with my user testing, he found this link from youtube that I think is amazing...
Even though this is not completely addressed to my last testing about Echo it does have a relationship with the idea how the "reflection" of voice (or in this case, also sound) can change aspects of events such as music.

The Collector

2008-10-25T16:24:00.000-07:00

As a way to follow a methodology for my thesis process I will start posting the collection of visual - sound traces and signatures that I find within NY...
I will post the day and time of the happening as well as possible sound recordings of precise places.

Graffiti shadow

2008-08-24T15:03:00.000-07:00

Graffiti, Oct. 2007 from Cécile Rouquié on Vimeo.

Sound visualizations with Processing

2008-08-20T15:33:00.000-07:00

Magnetosphere revisited (audio by Tosca) from flight404 on Vimeo.

http://www.flight404.com/blog/?p=74

Magnetic Ink

2008-08-18T21:44:00.000-07:00

Video made with Processing reacting to audio (The Flashbulb) in a very organic way.

http://www.theflashbulb.net/
http://www.flight404.com/blog/?p=101
http://www.flight404.com/blog/?p=102

Reflection:Sound data sculpture

2008-08-17T20:30:00.000-07:00

Here it is another visualization of sound in a more "static" way, like a frozen fluctuation of many frequencies.
This piece was created by Benjamin Maus with the collaboration of Andreas Nicholas Fischer, using a musical composition from Frans de Waard.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/harmful-technology/2609753261/
http://www.allesblinkt.com/project/reflection
http://dasautomat.com/

Sound phenomena and visualization

2008-08-15T08:05:00.000-07:00

Exploring Sound Phenomena from daithi on Vimeo.

Sound Patterns video from youtube

2008-07-06T11:18:00.000-07:00

At the beginning

2008-06-19T15:49:00.000-07:00

First input in this research blog