Thesis Journal vol.4 wk4.5 – Reflection and mood board

It has been a busy week for me! First, I would like to take a reflection based on my office hours with Craig, Despina and Carrie last week where some of our discussion came back to me today. I gained valuable information from speaking out my ideas to everyone of them. Their feedbacks helped me tremendously in shaping my idea to be tangible and ownable.

First, this project can you hear through your teeth? that Craig mentioned science and media museum was a project that is very effective to communicate, in this case of educational. I will certainly go back to some of the exhibition of sound to be inspired. Second, Despina and I were focusing on the aspect of sensing self through my initial topic, it could be psychological and physiology in its terms of comprehension. In the discussion we talked about the powerful aspect of going personal. It allows connect the audience in a fundamental way. The direction of present the work in a poetic way is something that I am aiming for where I stumble upon its definition and how I will go about it in the future. The goal is not to make it poetic for the sake of being poetic but to offer a gesture to welcome audiences to join and experience. Third, the idea of your sound is not your when it’s record in an external source that intrigues me in the discussion with Carrie. The cognitive dissonance happened when we hear our own voice came from our attachment to our own voice.

I created a sketch to roughly catch on some of the ideas mentioned above. I hope to achieve a form that will investigate our relationship with sound, sense of body. So far, in my work, I imagine a metaphor of mechanical but poetic at the same time, such as a stretched veil that is holding by a robotic arm. Sensible, poetic and intuitive. I’ve found some angles that I can approach in my current work such as “your body is not your body (once it’s recorded and presented in an external source)”, or, a work that will confront you, interrogate you or possible program you (you program the work to enable it to programs you). My moodboard basically reflects to what I have mentioned above. However it will come with a bit more presence, bodily experience, symbol and generation(al?/rative?) aspects of the experience. Maybe a simplified connotation will help to tell a better story?