Slightly out of Sync
its been a while...but i'm coming back.
The first presentation ever:
The 4 of us (this is including Michael, who has become an integral part of the project, but excluding umang who had to be an extra ‘hand’ at the factory) today presented the sync project (which apparently was much awaited presentation) to a part of the Srishti community.
How it goes.. (luckily smriti made notes and my brain was perked up, though I rarely ever be like that in presentations, and I am yet to look at the notes)..
Important point: we lack clarity in the face of an exhibition that has to go up in a month and backed by a process that feels like it started yesterday. But then it’s a sin to defend yourself, and I agree, so we won’t.
Setback: time is running out ladies! Isn’t it always? But seriously, it’s the sole reason for my headache right now. I don’t think anyone can quite grasp the tone of these statements so lets take that as a given. There is no intended tone.
Diploma order: each one of us has to have a very clear thread or role that we are playing in this project. It is a diploma requirement. Meaning we can’t create that individual thread through a document that happens in retrospect, post-exhibition.
What if each one of us were to take up a story that we found interesting and follow that to feed into the content of the exhibit, says ashok.
Hmm.. point taken
If this is a collaborative project each one of us has to own something in the project? We know what that means, but to put down, there is a database of images, so far, that we all shot together. We ‘all’ met the lithograph poster-makers and we ‘all’ had an analysis. Everyone has a notion in his or her head of how this project must work out within the formal framework of a diploma project.
Re-align. Time. Distribute tasks. Maybe a little more organized amidst all the chaos.
Ayisha: the use of fiction to present the narrative. Re-iterated. Would help to ground the project in its context. Maybe we need to take a slightly extreme stance on what is being said in terms of it being about the future and all that.
So WHAT is the project about?
What IS the project about?
What is it ABOUT damn it!
Mapping. There is a sense of macro and micro in any give situation, may it be physically located or simply in theory. What devices can be used to bring about the very crucial highlighting of the concepts that we have used as metaphor so far. Such as, impermanence, structure or the lack of one, mobility etc with regard to the institution. Does the interaction desired in the exhibit imply collaboration to the user at all?
Documentary mapper: non-linearity of the kind where you are documenting something as it happens or before it happens. And then perhaps after it happens.
create a timeline
Over and out.
The first presentation ever:
The 4 of us (this is including Michael, who has become an integral part of the project, but excluding umang who had to be an extra ‘hand’ at the factory) today presented the sync project (which apparently was much awaited presentation) to a part of the Srishti community.
How it goes.. (luckily smriti made notes and my brain was perked up, though I rarely ever be like that in presentations, and I am yet to look at the notes)..
Important point: we lack clarity in the face of an exhibition that has to go up in a month and backed by a process that feels like it started yesterday. But then it’s a sin to defend yourself, and I agree, so we won’t.
Setback: time is running out ladies! Isn’t it always? But seriously, it’s the sole reason for my headache right now. I don’t think anyone can quite grasp the tone of these statements so lets take that as a given. There is no intended tone.
Diploma order: each one of us has to have a very clear thread or role that we are playing in this project. It is a diploma requirement. Meaning we can’t create that individual thread through a document that happens in retrospect, post-exhibition.
What if each one of us were to take up a story that we found interesting and follow that to feed into the content of the exhibit, says ashok.
Hmm.. point taken
If this is a collaborative project each one of us has to own something in the project? We know what that means, but to put down, there is a database of images, so far, that we all shot together. We ‘all’ met the lithograph poster-makers and we ‘all’ had an analysis. Everyone has a notion in his or her head of how this project must work out within the formal framework of a diploma project.
Re-align. Time. Distribute tasks. Maybe a little more organized amidst all the chaos.
Ayisha: the use of fiction to present the narrative. Re-iterated. Would help to ground the project in its context. Maybe we need to take a slightly extreme stance on what is being said in terms of it being about the future and all that.
So WHAT is the project about?
What IS the project about?
What is it ABOUT damn it!
Mapping. There is a sense of macro and micro in any give situation, may it be physically located or simply in theory. What devices can be used to bring about the very crucial highlighting of the concepts that we have used as metaphor so far. Such as, impermanence, structure or the lack of one, mobility etc with regard to the institution. Does the interaction desired in the exhibit imply collaboration to the user at all?
Documentary mapper: non-linearity of the kind where you are documenting something as it happens or before it happens. And then perhaps after it happens.
create a timeline
Over and out.
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