Mentor Meeting Reflection: w/ Cezar Mocan
Had the first meeting with my mentor Cezar, got super helpful feedback during the last meeting and really appreciate him pushing me to go further. It is so interesting to have the mentor who is an artist and programmer interested in the relationship between the natural landscape and technology based in Lisbon, and had a different perspective from him.
Cezar encouraged me to experiment with different types of audience responses rather than fear, and explore what’s could be other options to get the audience to think critically about FER. We also talked about Sam Lavigne and Adam Harvey to imagine how can I use a “silly”(humor) way/tone to point out the problem.
As for the prediction report, Cezar shows his interest and think it is the key to the whole project, he encouraged me to think more about the content and showed me his collaborative NFT works with Ian Cheng(one of my favorite artists!) which will “reads your wallet’s public transaction history and infers the inner forces that compose your personality.”
Another suggestion he gave me is to talk to someone who works at these technology companies such as 4 Little Trees or uses their services, and interview them with some questions to have a deeper understanding of why FER is still being used. I will try to connect with someone this week if possible.
The last thing we talked about is the accuracy of the model and I started to think maybe can create a user guide to teach the audience how to act appropriately to get a higher score if I run into a bottleneck.
