STIs in the united kingdom in 2009, separated by gender.
visualization #1:
self-explanatory enough; pink represents women, blue represents men.
visualization #2 – men:
visualization #2 – women:
these are still works in progress as i am having a tough time getting the cells to place where i actually want them in the sketch.
what started as an experiment to see how and if people would contribute information to a politically charged website spiraled into an insane viral experience that was completely humbling and overwhelming.
sluts across america as of 6/17/12
today, the site has about 8,700 submissions. i’m hoping to slowly get up to 10k by the end of the summer.
updates on projects in the second half of the spring 2012 semester forthcoming within the next week, including:
* “sluts across america” and the insanity of having your website go viral
* “tenement” (spatial media final)
* “gortha” (design for playful learning final, which we will be submitting to games for change 2012)
* “community of liars” and the process of making a connected doc
* “gallery 182” and the quest to create a new ITP tradition
the first installation in gallery 182 on the ITP floor (aka locker #182).
“TRUST”
by
Phil Groman, Benjamin Light & Roopa Vasudevan
open until 4/2/2012
this week’s assignment was about participation and transaction between at least three parties in storytelling.
for our conversational spaces midterm, ryan viglizzo, james borda, matt london and i decided to create a space online where members of the ITP community will feel free to submit thoughtful, honest critique about each other’s work that will benefit the artist in future iterations. critique is something that is lacking on the ITP floor, mostly because the sense of community is so strong that saying things about each other’s projects that are not positive can make you seem like a bit of a jerk.
here’s the online survey we are using to field data & potential interviews for our project:
http://itp.nyu.edu/~rv670/sinatra/lies/
we also have a submission box set up in the lounge for people who would rather write out answers by hand.
next steps include:
1. finding a couple willing to participate in our “newlywed game”-style thru narrative
2. fielding people to actually participate in interviews/storytelling
3. gathering data for the visualization.
we’re going to present our alpha with test video in place that we can easily change out when we get our real material. the hardest thing for us to do, as i imagined before, will be getting people who are willing to speak on camera about this stuff.
here is the assignment for this week’s collective storytelling class: memory, story, object & location.
i decided to build a processing sketch for this one (going the true nerd route and coding!). the idea was to look at the objects in my room as having stories of their own, particularly the furniture that i got used or vintage. a lot of the stuff in my room was purchased through craigslist or secondhand, so the stories about who i bought them from and what those experiences were like, i think, adds to the flavor of the pieces themselves.
see video below. i’d love to be able to build on this a little bit more in the future.
i’d never been to the tenement museum before our visit last week so i was really excited about the trip. i found the visit really informative, and our guide was very knowledgeable about the history of the place and the people who used to live there. however, i also found myself zoning out at times during the tour and i wonder if there are ways by which that might have been prevented. it felt like a lot of information was being thrown at me all at once, and it occurred to me that maybe i didn’t really need to be in the actual tenement in order to get this information. the location (as well as the objects around us) seemed almost incidental to the visit, and the act of listening to the guide talk seemed like the most important thing we could do while we were there.
one thing i do wish (and i spoke to a friend about this afterwards as well) is that visitors were able to go to the museum and experience it without a guide, or without being on a tour. as marianne pointed out multiple times prior to the visit and afterwards, the way they have the visits structured now depends so greatly on the quality of the guides that the experience may be really uneven on different occasions. i think it would be interesting to integrate some kind of interactive feature — either through mobile, augmented reality, or through dedicated “iPad tours” or the like — that allows you to scan objects in the apartments to get more information about the family that lived there or see photographs of what life was like in the early 20th century. the way the visit was structured made it seem like a really basic “show and tell” session and i think there could be a lot of interesting ways to engage the visitor and really get them to envision the history of the tenement instead of just looking at photographs and standing in a room filled with antique objects.
update so far is at the connected documentary blog.