{"id":278,"date":"2014-05-02T12:23:22","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T16:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2014\/asli-aydin\/"},"modified":"2014-05-12T08:27:19","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T12:27:19","slug":"asli-aydin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2014\/asli-aydin\/","title":{"rendered":"Life as We Know It"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em>Asli Aydin<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>The piece is an exploration of the Quantified Self Movement and the representation of personal data. A journey into the self through quantitative and qualitative data, which is based on my experiences during my father\u2019s battle with pancreatic cancer.<\/p>\n<h3>Description<\/h3>\n<p>Through a series of life-logging techniques, the project aims to ask questions such as: Why do we collect data? Does it tell us something we don\u2019t know about ourselves? Does it change our behavior? I tracked myself as my father went through cancer. I wanted to discover whether or not my data could tell the story of my experience. Can I frame it to express emotion? The more I tried to put it together, the less I felt like it connected to my experience. I decided to create a book that compared the two states of my data during the process of death and how I felt. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asli Aydin The piece is an exploration of the Quantified Self Movement and the representation of personal data. A journey into the self through quantitative and qualitative data, which is based on my experiences during my father\u2019s battle with pancreatic cancer. Description Through a series of life-logging techniques, the project aims to ask questions such &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2014\/asli-aydin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Life as We Know It<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[415],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nancy-hechinger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}