Apologies for not posting these on a daily cadence – I was traveling over the past few days but brought my notebook with me, so I am uploading my notes here now. Building off the concept of a history-generating machine and the quote that history are memories revised, I thought this would be a fun idea to work through for how history is “made.”

Day 3 – “Memory Intake”

I started thinking about the intake process of memory before it goes through the process of becoming “history.”

This form will be reviewed or “red lined” through its process

Day 4 – Who works in the revision machine?

I researched where the first historical references were made and were brought back to Ancient Greece. I came across the story of Thucydides dismissing Herodotus when oral history was first debated, so the revisionist history process began. I think of the movie Inside Out and how different characters are associated with emotions. Similarly, I’d like to think there are little “workers” within the machine reviewing and redlining the memory intake form to make it “fit for history.”

Day 5 –  The Process 

I picture the form going down a conveyor belt, measured against different litmus tests. I imagine there will be examples in the current process that can be used to manage the metaphor further.

Day 6 – 

The final part of the process, a revised version of the intake form stamped as “approved” – edited to be fit for history and sent to historians, institutions, and historical societies to further cement into society’s shared story and continue to be debated

For Day 2, I continued my illustrations for my topic, “How email affects climate change,” and drew the layout of a junk email I received today to see how long it would take to find the “Unsubscribe” button. While drawing out the layout of the email, I felt how long it look to actually reach the end, where the “Unsubscribe” button was accessible. It shows how companies want to make it as inconvenient as possible to actually unsubscribe to their emails.

I found a new branch of AI-Generated art, concept art, which is a form of illustration that is used to express an idea that would be further used in media creation, leading to the final product. Concept art is a form of visual art and there are more and more concept artists trying to use AI-Generated tool to get inspiration and draft sketches, or even the final outputs.

Running versus Walking with time

Today’s odor: Coffee.

I don’t know how to represent coffee’s smell. So I drew a coffee bean.

I want to use this game to show the inefficiency and limitation of teachers in traditional pedagogy. The first player is like teachers in a classroom. You posses a lot of knowledge,  and you need to transmit your knowledge to students through language, and you need to let students understand what you mean.

In this game, I want to show the inequality in traditional classrooms. There are two positive feedback loops in this game. If you roll a big number at the beginning, you can add more points to you dice, which will make it easier for you to roll a big number next time. Thus your number will be bigger and bigger. Oppositely, if you roll a small number at the beginning, you will more likely to roll a small number in later attempts. In the end, you will get smaller and smaller points.

This is a board game I designed based on chess. As you can see, the rules only give you information about four animals, but the actual game includes much more animals. So to play this game, you need to communicate with other players, and come up with your own set of rules.

This game design resembles the limitation of teaching inside classroom. We can only receive limited amount of knowledge in the classroom, but when we go outside and connect with the real world and the society, there are many unknown things to you. To work them out, you need to communicate with others or form your own set of rules.