Ideas, idea, ideas

Today in Cyber Studio we threw a bunch of ideas at the wall, some feasible, some not so much. We have a few ideas about themes but not sure how to embody them, while others we knew the installation but not the meaning. Here's the quick list of ideas we've (2 art student, 1 Industrial Design, and 1 Computer Science) pulled together.

Possible Ideas for Project #1

Obsession with the Phone/ Computer Communication

- 3D Piece about an Iphone and Blackberry (or other phone) falling in love through texting.

- Various phones in either relationships, or hooking up.

- The texting is read aloud by the voice of the phone carrier

- Commentary on all communication through devices, we pay them more love than people we know

Live Action Video piece about the "difference" humanitarian effort through social networks, online petitions, and twitter

- People think they are making a difference by clicking buttons

- People really make a difference when they rally (reference the gay march for rights in DC, the Tea Baggers, and the actual protests in Iran)

Examples of Useless Online Organizations

Twitter- Iran Protest= Green Square

Facebook- Breast Cancer, Hokie United?,

Online Petitions- Health care, social issues

Question of awareness?

Possible ideas

- Party idea, panning between people actually interacting and people talking into phones or texting in computers

-Take people isolated from their rooms/ houses and put them together and exaggerate the issue of direct communication (technology has made things extremely impersonal, creating social phobias)

- various electronic implying gender and sexual interactions?

- Devices constricted by their own projection/ implied symbolism of our slave to over abundance of information

- 5 people in a circle interaction solely through computer/ or holding up screens for projectors of what they are saying.

- 2-3 peoples stand behind white walls with projections of what they type being shot onto their walls. You cant see what you typed but you can see what others are saying. You can see the eyehole in the wall of what others have said.

- Commentary on the anonymity of others

- Two people (strangers) and one team member

:Two people are legit, probably tell the truth about themselves

:One must lie

- Chatroom anonymity- When the chatting in a room you only get one persons messages?

There were a few more and a few Illustrations. Hopefully we can settle and focus on an idea and get the equipment together Thursday.
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(Street Installation, Mark Jenkins)

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This blog is focused on project I conceive and create in my CyberStudio Class here at Virginia Tech. There will also be posts of various interesting projects I find as well as updates on various other large projects. Most posts are to come but this is just to mark the beginning.

The name is Chris Russell, however online I am know simply as Pog. My art can be found at other various site such as deviant art, live journal, as well as my own website all to be posted soon to this page.

This is the Minimalist style Glowing Sofa by
Mario Bellini
I'd love to have this piece in my house, the light would never be on!