I had a talk with Beth, and she helped me to go through all my thoughts related to my topic, and she also helped me to break down each branch in detail, and go deep dive for each detail. she is always trying to help us out to make life easier.
I got inspiration and helpful feedback from today’s group session. Some thoughts and feedback are summarized below.
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1:1 with Sarah #2 on Feb 23
We went through my proposal draft and Sarah provided me with valuable feedback . Below are the notes.
As usual, glad I went to the thesis group this week. It was a good touch point to keep me thinking about what I’m working on. It was helpful to hear from Nun that when I talk about “garments” it makes more sense than when I talk about “fashion.” That feels more resonant with me too. I am also getting lots of excellent ideas from my classmates and Nun, some really cool artists playing with biomorphic interior design, biomorphic/bio-inspired garments, and tech forward garments — like materials that respond to UV light. Lots to think on there.
Hi all,
Hope you’re off to a wonderful week. A few important announcements:Â
Please fill out this very short mentorship questionnaire, ASAP (by tomorrow, pretty please 🙏!). I have initial ideas for matches for each of you, but want to consider your input. The sooner you do this, the sooner I can reach out to potential matches! You may notice that there is an option to waive 1-1 mentorship – feel free to discuss this option with me if you’re inclined to pursue that option. Also to note: I’m adjusting the schedule such that your mentorship can carry through mid-summer, so that should ease up some of the time-crunch of getting all 3 meetings in before May.Â
Tonight’s event has been postponed until March 21. Apologies, there was a time conflict! There will still be a resident-led peer-session (at 8pm ET), which I encourage you to go to. You can even use the time together to co-watch and discuss some wonderful past ITP thesis presentations for inspiration.
“What should I be doing now”? At this point, you should have begun with some sort of making practice: that might be exploratory low-fi prototyping, sketches, creating technical pipelines to iterate with. I’d hope at this point, you’ve had 2-3 meetings with me, 2-3 meetings with a peer group, and one meeting with a resident whose thesis presentation resonated with you. You should have watched a few thesis presentations from the archives (some selected on the Project Guidelines, all archives linked on the Thesis Resources page). You should continue research and maybe even continue refining your thesis question. You should be documenting absolutely everything! (preferably on the Thesis Journal!). In fact, I highly recommend that youÂ
Post something you made (a sketch, a styleframe, a video, an image, a sound, a meme) on the thesis journal this week, and comment on someone else’s! If you keep up your work, little by little, you’ll be in great shape by the end of the semester!
Your next big milestones are a draft production schedule and a rough testable prototype of some sort, both of which we’ll review in class March 28. You can talk about either thing with me in a 1-1.Â
Hot tip: for those of you still quite unsure about your project’s “form”: consider that you will also be taking classes in the next seven weeks and during the summer. If your thesis question is juicy enough, it is likely you can use assignments in your next courses to make a project aligned with your thesis work.Â
That’s all for now! Let me know if you have any questions, thoughts, ideas, brainstorms, or … songs stuck in your head you want to share!
Warmly,Â
SarahÂ
I had a great conversation with Sarah last night. First, I told to Sarah that I wrote detailed impact and “why” of my thesis topic. I wanted the thesis could be a reminder for me and visitors. When we get negative emotion, we can remember the scene manifested in my thesis so we can better adjust our mentality. Then, I told my process so far to Sarah. I am doing two parts of research, and the first part is learning generative art code and algorithm by reading The nature of Code. The second part is doing research on rendering or shader in Unity. I had tested flocking behaviour and random displacement of vertex of 3d model in Unity, furthermore, I will list a series of behaviors by the order of importance. I will try to accomplish them one by one. The most important thing for me is making it work in current stage. Also, I will try to make simple shader effect based on different characteristic of “six root delusions” at the beginning stage.
After talking with Sarah, she suggested me to make a storyboard about the flow of users experiencing the thesis. She also asked me to consider what is the context of the thesis? During the conversation, Sarah suggested me many artists or art projects I might be interested in. I hope one of the artists she recommended to me could be my thesis mentors, which could be possible.Â
Artists and art projects recommended to me:
After our peer group meeting, I had my one-on-one meeting with Danni, so we continued our conversation around my proposal. We talked about my plan, and Danni pointed out some parts that weren’t very clear and didn’t make sense. She was right about my explanation of metaphors – I needed to give more detail. I agreed with her. Since I mentioned “connection” in my plan, we discussed whether the project could better show two-way connections. It made me realize that I initially thought older people wanted to bond with younger people, and it’s actually the other way around – young people often ignore older people. I need to check if this is true to start my project in the right direction.
For the third group meeting, we only had 3 students came up so we had a brief session this time. At the beginning, Yueqing had a make-up explanation about her proposal. She clearly described what her thesis would looks like. She wanted to make a social simulation game, which let young generation pay more attention to elderly. Then, Elizabeth and me talked about our process of thesis.Â
During the second group meeting, we talked about our process of proposal. We had 5 mins self explanation and 5 mins feedback. Jun showed his concept of memory and think about the connection between death and life. Ada showed her concept about vj, elderly and pop culture. Last, Elizabeth presented her proposal related to radio wave visualization. They gave me some suggestion about proposal. I needed to be more clear to demonstrate the concept of “six root delusions” in my proposal.
I was busy with my work last week, so this is my second peer group meeting. Danni helped me to catch up. I went through my proposal with Yunshan and Beth and received some helpful feedback and questions. I will update them in my folder for the thesis later.
One interesting question I never think about is whether the animals in the valley grow up in my game. It brings out some new possibilities for my project. Also, through this share & feedback progress, I realized there are some logical problems in my proposal because I forgot to update the second half when I edited the completed version.
Then we shared our progress. Yunshan and I have the same question. We want to get some technic support in Unity in NYUSH if possible.
I asked Margaret for help on research on altruism in online gaming. She gave me some helpful tips:
1. Searching on google scholar
– How to add “Getit@NYU” links next to your Google Scholar results: [http://guides.nyu.edu/google/scholar](http://guides.nyu.edu/google/scholar)
– it can be hiding under double carrot
– look under related articles and “cited by”
2. ACM digital library – it’s much smaller, tends to surface stuff you want faster
– right now the database is broken – so you can search but not read/DL some articles
– fun computer people famous for tech conferences
– you can expand your search to other publishers
3. Google Books
– lets you search inside of the book
– if you have something really specific, it could just be an essay within a book
– she did recommended I use the first two first since I found some great articles in there
Also as a side note, using quotation marks around phrases ie [altruism AND “online gaming”]