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Project Final Idea
I have refined and come up two project ideas that have been approved by my lecturer. AGE OF SMART SURVEILLANCE: I plan to build an object detector that specifically highlights these devices to bring attention to the everyday devices that store personal data. Initially, I considered using Google Teachable Machine to train the model myself.…
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Speculative Design
CLASS LECTURE: My initial concept of this profession was that it wasn’t a necessary part of our development. I thought they designed random, out-of-the-ordinary objects, which seemed a little pointless to me. However, after learning about the ideas behind this profession, my views have changed. While it may not be essential, speculative design plays an…
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SciArt
CLASS LECTURE: During class, discussions revolved around the field of SciArt and its significant contributors. SciArt, or Science Art, is an interdisciplinary field that blends scientific research or concepts with artistic expression, aiming to make scientific ideas more accessible and engaging through various mediums. Bioart, a subset of SciArt, specifically focuses on merging biology with…
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ASSIGNMENT OVERVIEW
CLASS TASK To research our chosen topics by going through our previous lecture materials, looking at the references on Moodle, using those as a starting point to explore the topic further by gathering more sources Here are keywords that I collected from reading sources that interest me: – Storytelling: The art of conveying stories through…
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Cybernetics
LECTURE: NETWORKS AND NETWORK CULTURE FINAL ASSIGNMENT IDEATION I have chosen to work with the topic of Artificial Life for my final works in this component. To clarify my thoughts I will think about the following questions: So far I don’t have specific ideas for my project, so I can only answer these questions partially.…
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Data and intelligence
CLASS TASK – HOUR 1 This week we started with experimentation with Google’s teachable machine, there were different modes to test with, this required no coding and therefore was a simple exercise that anyone could perform. This helps make experimentation with AI more accessible and interactive to the general public and therefore is a beneficial…
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Digital materials
CLASS TASK The in-class task was to choose a piece of technology that I often interact with at uni and consider the below questions: I am going to choose a Bluetooth mouse as my piece of tech, but I am going to rely Chatgpt program to collect information quickly for me: Another in-class task was…
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Computational communities
This week in class we collaborated on our code as a team using different software, below were the steps we took: Github Create an account on GitHub Download GitHub for desktop and sign in. Share your GitHub name on this shared doc. I will make you a collaborator on our repo. Clone my repo by selecting the current…
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Penplotter and Oscilloscope
This week we experimented with the pen plotter and the oscilloscope: Penplotter The image used to plot the points is from the program on p5js last week. Firstly we had to download Axidraw and Inkscape software that worked with the penplotter. We were introduced to the technical wiki where we could find tutorials and steps…
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History of computers
TASK This week we completed research individually to compile a timeline of profiles for a range of historical computers, answering the below questions: What is it? Who created it? What social, economic or environmental factors helped (or hindered) its creation? How did it revolutionize the field of computing? Did it lead to any shifts in…