This week was mostly spent on preparing draft presentation, creating archive materials and programming in the replay feature. I’d like to devote the week to programming and styling and do a round of user testing sometime on Thursday or Friday. Then the late week /…

For week 2 class I had the initial demo of interaction that was my goal. The app can be found here: https://sophisticated-ablaze-yogurt.glitch.me/ I got the essence of the UX down that I wanted, but the transitions are still wonky and bleed into each other. I’m…

I ended the Spring term at a sort of cross roads. I hadn’t made nearly enough progress on my thesis to feel confident in the direction of the project and was unsure about how interesting / coherent it would be to others after the user…

I prepared some slides to share with my thesis feedback group, which was useful because it really just illustrated just how convoluted the conceptual framework of my thesis had become. The three themes I had organized my thoughts around (museum interactives + narcissism, screens, and…

My thesis topic is narcissism and digital interaction. My specific context for researching this is that I have been a museum worker for the past 10 years and am now in the early stages of helming / originating a digital department at a museum. I…

WHAT IS YOUR THESIS QUESTION? Is narcissism inherent in digital interaction, or is there such a class of interaction that excludes referencing the self? Working in museums I have been involved in or observed a number of digital initiatives. Through this work it’s been made…

In my original post about possible thesis topics I mentioned terrain vague, a term to describe indeterminate spaces that inform and are essential to the urban milieu. Here I ruminate on how we might interact or depict terrain vague in a digital context. médiatique vague…

I was reminded this week of a story I read about Miami long before I ever knew I would live here. It is called “Myths Over Miami” by Lynda Edwards and it illustrates an emergent mythology shared by homeless children in the city. The children talk…

In study groups share 3 projects from your portfolio or IMA, and 3 inspirational projects that somehow relate to your work. Explain what is about these projects that you find inspiring.   3 INSPIRATIONAL PROJECTS   Inventing Abstraction interactive from MoMA   A web interactive…

The pandemic has helped me gain a better appreciation for the boundaries between digital and physical. They are not interchangeable and you can’t recreate the museum experience simply by rendering a space in a software application. There are things that are better in person and…