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EROFT: Final – #EchoChamber
For my final, I decided to continue iterating on what I did with Meditation 4, the performative twitter #EchoChamber. I originally created a slide show where I handpicked current trends in the media on twitter, whcih a few days ago … Continue reading
EROFT: Meditation 4
What does it mean to communicate in a collective sense? I think of our networked selves, the twitter feed as the new greek chorus, collective twitter groups that speak but are seen as singular (ex: “black twitter”). I scraped several … Continue reading
EROFT: Meditation 3
This week I combined selenium web browsing with scraping and NLP to create a wikipedia prophecy generator, or wiki-omancy. When thinking about “-omancy” possibilities I broke down the typical structure – it involves some user input/action, some randomness, and a … Continue reading
EROFT: Meditation 2
Invent your own “oracle deck.” Your deck doesn’t have to be a physical object (though it can be). Keeping in mind the formal characteristics of cleromancy discussed in class, consider how digital media can complicate/diminish/augment the parts and processes of … Continue reading
EROFT: Meditation 1
I’ll be the first to say that my ritual is rather…boring. But if there’s anything I learned during my time in anthropology, it’s the things we find the most mundane that tell us the most about our value systems and … Continue reading
HSF: Final
For our final, Corbin and I continued to build out the world of HEIST. We added several new features and components to enhance our vision of what the game could be in terms of narrative, navigation, and aesthetic. We added … Continue reading
Learning Machines: Final Project Proposal
Teen girls occupy an interesting place in Western cultural imagination. It’s a fetishized state where women are beginning to see that the rest of society sees them as objects and sexualized creatures. The obvious example is Lolita, but other narratives … Continue reading
HSF: Final Project Progress
Switching gears, Corbinti and I have started working together off of his midterm, HEIST. I was particularly drawn to the story that Corbin uncovered – while I’m already very familiar with the evilness that are banks, this particular connection to … Continue reading
DIY-VR Midterm: learn HOW TO KISS in VR
HOW TO KISS VR Presentation
HSF: TechnoloWitch
TechnoloWitch is a twitter-bot that casts spells and generates a new kind of tech language. Historically, witches have been symbols of female/queer power and a threat to the patriarchy. More recently, occult aesthetics and practices have been undergoing a resurgence and … Continue reading