Conceptual Blockbusting One
This week's reading became immediately applicable as I toiled with a group of fellow students to present a project for Red's Applications of Interactive Technologies class. Once the concept was formulated and we considered the idea's executionit became imperative to constantly re-draw the concept's parameters. Our problem statement was too broad in many ways: we had seven days to formulate a twenty minute response to an artists's presentation. While not explicityly stated it had been strongly suggested that this response be technologically simple, "unique" and "creative." One explicit stipulation was that we could not see or assess the space prior to the start of class.
Our solution to that problem was to use the audience to help us build a large scale reproduction of a single image. As we decided on what the image might be we were forced to address issues of audience, context, further problem isolation/definition and a suitable problem statement.