2011년 5월 8일 일요일

a technical solution. Byung-kun Kim/ Supervisor. Professor David Hall

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Korean text: Talmud, famous quotes from films, famous quotes of great people in history, proverb, the Analects of Confucius
English text: the New Testament

Korean text: dissemble sentences by ‘dot’ and randomize the words
English text: dissemble sentences by ‘space’ and randomize the words

device : letters on head or tie?





Device is on speaker’s eyelevel LED dot matrix, that displays text + PDA, that randomize text then sent to dot matrix via Bluetooth

Conversation Interrupting so that boosting device

process

linear, obvious, conventional story
-> transfer->
unexpected text or visual that will interrupt the speaker to think and speak habitually.

stories we know well: read/heard over the ages through our lives
Talmud, famous quotes from films, famous quotes of great people in history, proverb, the Analects of Confucius, the New Testament

Project: Finding an irrational approach to lovers and people who are emotionally close

more inspiration

Luis Buñuel's Film 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'

We don't hear the phone conversation on these scenes. Instead there is unknown explosion and helicopter sound.

Sony walkman
experience a familiar situation as a totally different one.

naked lunch (William S. Burroughs)

If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido."
— William S. Burroughs (Naked Lunch)

How to make stories?(non-linear story, cut-ups, Oblique Strategies...)

Attracting a distracted partner
I want be an interesting person who leads creative conversation but found making a conversation with people is somewhat painful as I am trapped in a same end when I talk.




Ways of creative (extended) thinking


Nonlinear narrative

Lateral Thinking
Edward de Bono's key concept is that logical, linear and critical thinking has limitations because it is based on argumentation. The traditional critical thinking processes of Plato, Aristotle and Socrates are reductive, designed to eliminate all but the truth. In many of de Bono's books, he calls for the more important need for creative thinking as a constructive way though that is deliberately designed. In de Bono's first book, Mechanism of Mind, he wrote of the importance to disrupt the dominant patterns preferred by human brain design to facilitate potential creative abilities. Many of de Bono's speculative models from that era about how the brain worked were vindicated by later brain research.
Lateral thinking, (literally, sideways thinking) uses various acts of provocation to incite ideas that are free from previously locked assumptions. The most well-known lateral thinking technique is the "random word." Invention of the word "PO" by de Bono, (meaning Provocative Operation, also related to POetry and hyPOthesis) gives notice that what will follow isn't meant as nonsense, but intended to relate to the subject at hand. Various provocative lateral thinking actions, (such as escape, new stimuli, reversal, etc.) were designed to deliberately shift perceptional assumptions for the purpose of generating observations and insights about the subject.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral_thinking


Oblique Strategies (subtitled over one hundred worthwhile dilemmas) is a set of published cards created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt first published in 1975, and is now in its fifth, open ended, edition. Prior to Oblique Strategies, Schmidt created "The Thoughts Behind the Thoughts" [1] in 1970, a similar collection of "55 sentences", in an edition of 100.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_Strategies
http://www.rtqe.net/ObliqueStrategies/OSintro.html


The cut-up technique is an aleatory literary technique in which a text is cut up and rearranged to create a new text. Most commonly, cut-ups are used to offer a non-linear alternative to traditional reading and writing.[citation needed]
The concept can be traced to at least the Dadaists of the 1920s, but was popularized in the late 1950s and early 1960s by writer William S. Burroughs, and has since been used in a wide variety of contexts.
The cut-up and the closely associated fold-in are the two main techniques:
Cut-up is performed by taking a finished and fully linear text and cutting it in pieces with a few or single words on each piece. The resulting pieces are then rearranged into a new text.
Fold-in is the technique of taking two sheets of linear text (with the same linespacing), folding each sheet in half vertically and combining with the other, then reading across the resulting page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut-up_technique http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealist_techniques


Antony Balch/William S. Burroughs collaboration film, 'The Cut-Ups' opened in London in 1967

"The cut-up is actually closer to the facts of perception than representational painting. Take a walk down a city street and put down what you have just seen on canvas. You have seen a person cut in two by a car, bits and pieces of street signs and advertisements, reflections from shop windows - a montage of fragments. Writing is still confined to the representational straitjacket of the novel ... consciousness is a cut up. Every time you walk down the street or look out of the window, your stream of consciousness is cut by random factors."
-William S. Burroughs

"What is clear and concise can't deal with reality, for what is real is to be surrounded by mystery." - James Joyce


Markov chain


Dissociated press is an algorithm for generating text based on another text. It is intended for transforming any text into potentially humorous garbage. The name is a play on "Associated Press".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociated_press


DadaDodo is a program that analyses texts for word probabilities, and then generates random sentences based on that. Sometimes these sentences are nonsense; but sometimes they cut right through to the heart of the matter, and reveal hidden meanings.
http://www.jwz.org/dadadodo/


Brian Gysin
He is best known for his (re)discovery of the cut-up technique,[2] used by his friend, the novelist William S. Burroughs. With the engineer Ian Sommerville he invented the Dreamachine, a flicker device designed as an art object to be viewed with the eyes closed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brion_Gysin


The dreamachine (or dream machine) is a stroboscopic flicker device that produces visual stimuli. Artist Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs's "systems adviser" Ian Sommerville created the dreamachine after reading William Grey Walter's book, The Living Brain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamachine

A mind machine (in some countries[which?] called a psychowalkman[citation needed]) uses pulsing rhythmic sound and/or flashing light to alter the brainwave frequency of the user.[1] Mind machines are said to induce deep states of relaxation, concentration, and in some cases altered states of consciousness[citation needed] that have been compared to those obtained from meditation and shamanic exploration.[citation needed]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_machine

Light and Sound Machines are non-drug tools that have been used over the past 57 years to improve Academic and Sports Performances. Most of the top hypnotists and hypnosis centers use Light and Sound Machines to assist their clients into a highly suggestive state. Expand your natural Alpha Waves - Theta waves using binaural beats for creative imagery and meditation.
The process applied by these machines is also known as brainwave synchronisation or entrainment.
http://www.mindmachine.com/index.php

Urban loneliness, Urban alienation

Urban loneliness, Urban alienation

“I am so lonely because I have not done any proper conversation for so long time!” Giving and receiving information is not proper conversation as people do text, call and talk with their spouse, lover, friends and family such as “I did shopping, I had dinner, I will be late etc.”.

Rates of Loneliness
There are several estimates and indicators of loneliness. It has been estimated that approximately 60 million people in the United States, or 20% of the total population, feel lonely.[2] Another study found that 12% of Americans have no one to spend free time with or discuss important matters.[14] Other research suggests that this rate has been increasing over time. The General Social Survey found that between 1985 and 2004, the number of people the average American discusses important matters with decreased from three to two. Additionally, the rate of Americans with no one to discuss important matters with tripled.[15]

Loneliness in Modern Society
Loneliness frequently occurs in heavily populated cities; in these cities many people feel utterly alone and cut off, even when surrounded by millions of other people, experiencing a loss of identifiable community in an anonymous crowd. It is unclear whether loneliness is a condition aggravated by high population density itself, or simply part of the human condition brought on by this social setting. While loneliness also occurs in societies with much smaller populations, the sheer number of people that one comes into contact with daily in a city, even if only briefly, may raise barriers to actually interacting more deeply with them, and thereby increase the feeling of being cut off and alone. Quantity of contact does not translate into quality of contact.[16]
Loneliness appears to have become particularly prevalent in modern times. At the beginning of the 20th century, particularly in the western world, families were typically larger and more stable, divorce was rarer, and relatively few people lived alone. In 1900 in the United States only 5% of households were single-person households; by 1995, 24 million Americans lived alone, and by 2010, it was estimated that that number would have increased to around 31 million.[17]
A 2006 study in the American Sociological Review found that Americans on average had only two close friends in which to confide, which was down from an average of three in 1985. The percentage of people who noted having no such confidant rose from 10% to almost 25%, and an additional 19% said they had only a single confidant, often their spouse, thus raising the risk of serious loneliness if the relationship ended.[18]
Loneliness has also shown a strong correlation with internet usage,[19] with many people suffering from loneliness tending to visit various websites to help deal with their condition, as seen in phenomena such as the "I am lonely will anyone speak to me" thread

Attachment Theory
Attachment theory describes the dynamics of long-term relationships between humans especially as within families and between life-long friends. Its most important tenet is that an infant needs to develop a relationship with at least one primary caregiver for social and emotional development to occur normally, and that further relationships build on the patterns developed in the first relationships.


Key is story

We should provid more stories to our lovers who we would like to communicate to make a conversation so that we can empathize each other better just like watching films and reading novels we can empathize.

The relationship researcher Arthur Aron has pointed out that new experiences, rather than repeated favorites, are the best way to keep romantic feelings alive in a marriage, based on a series of six studies of hundreds of couples.
http://nymag.com/news/features/52450/

crucial modern society problems- Alienation. Desensitization. Devaluation of the individual in favor of an unintelligent "hive-mind" mentality. Lack of meaning in our daily activities. Capitalization...

social alienation theories

Marx's theory of alienation
Marx's Theory of Alienation is based upon his observation that in emerging industrial production under capitalism, workers inevitably lose control of their lives and selves, in not having any control of their work. Workers never become autonomous, self-realized human beings in any significant sense, except the way the bourgeois want the worker to be realized. Alienation in capitalist societies occurs because in work each contributes to the common wealth, but can only express this fundamentally social aspect of individuality through a production system that is not publicly social, but privately owned, for which each individual functions as an instrument, not as a social being.

in existentialism and phenomenology, alienation describes the inadequacy of human being or mind in relation to the world. The human mind, as the subject of perception, relates to the world as an object of its perception, and so is distanced from the world rather than living within it. -Søren Kierkegaard, who examined the emotions and feelings of individuals when faced with life choices

Jean-Paul Sartre argued that when a person tries to gain knowledge of the "Other" (meaning beings or objects that are not the self), their self consciousness has a "masochistic desire" to be limited.

Melvin Seeman was part of the surge in alienation research prominent in the middle of the 20th century when he published his paper, On the Meaning of Alienation, in the American Sociological Review in 1959 (Senekal, 2010b: 7-8). Seeman used the insights of Marx, Durkheim and others to construct what is often considered a model of alienation consisting of five aspects: powerlessness, meaninglessness, normlessness, social isolation, and self-estrangement. Seeman later added a sixth element, cultural estrangement, although this element does not feature prominently in later discussions of Seeman's work


“A person suffers from alienation in the form of ‘powerlessness’ when she is conscious of the gap between what she would like to do and what she feels capable of doing”. Powerlessness is therefore the perception that the individual does not have the means to achieve his goals.

Meaninglessness

Normlessness or what Durkheim referred to as anomie “denotes the situation in which the social norms regulating individual conduct have broken down or are no longer effective as rules for behaviour”. The anomic situation [...] may be defined as one in which there is a high expectancy that socially unapproved behaviours are required to achieve given goals”.

Social isolation refers to “The feeling of being segregated from one’s community” (Kalekin-Fishman, 1996: 97). Neal & Collas (2000: 114) emphasize the centrality of social isolation in the modern world, “While social isolation is typically experienced as a form of personal stress, its sources are deeply embedded in the social organization of the modern world. With increased isolation and atomization , much of our daily interactions are with those who are strangers to us and with whom we lack any ongoing social relationships.”


Self-estrangement is “the psychological state of denying one’s own interests – of seeking out extrinsically satisfying, rather than intrinsically satisfying, activities


For R.D. Laing, alienation is characterized by neglect and distance from an individual's self-experience and self-identity, and by a lack of autonomy in interpersonal relations (see heteronomy). He argues that people who are diagnosed with disorders such as ADHD and schizophrenia are often suffering from a more sociological condition - ontological insecurity. Ontological insecurity has four elements: "engulfment" (the fear that others are trying to take away or absorb one's identity), "implosion" (the feeling of emptiness the correlates with the feeling that concrete reality itself is a threat to one's identity), "petrification" (terror leading to and dread of turning into a thing or object, see reification), and "depersonalization" (lack of responsiveness to others, as to oneself). All of these can result in the development of mental and behavioural disorders which may be healthy responses to unhealthy circumstances.[



urban alienation , social isolation in modern world
in literature
no exit(Jean-Paul Sartre), nausia(Sartre), the waste land(T.S Eliot)... ‘Of Mice and Men’(John Steinbeck), One flew over the Cuckoo’s nest(Ken Kesey), ‘The Heart is a lonely hunter (Carson McCuller)

in films
cyberpunk films..
Lost in Translation

in fine art
bacon, georgo segal, dada, neo dada movement...

in technology and design output
web, ..

personal simptoms
depression-> drug and alchol use