Independent Production

01/10/2010


We have just completed the first session on independent production, and through this process of discussing what we may do for our project as a group I have decided I want to develop and further what I have started last year in Web Media. 


Last year me and another member created a project on simulation and simulacrum. We used the medium of a time line in order to simulate a nuclear event. Within the time line we used secondary sources from the internet in order to create this nuclear event. Through this we hoped to show how secondary sources could be re-mediated and used to simulate an entirely new event.


With this in mind, I thought about creating a web version of Jeffrey Shaw's Legible City, and using hyper-text and flash animation to re-create an area, to simulate an area. However this is only an initial idea for such a project. As well as this another possibility is something similar to Ghost City which takes the city and distorts it using images, sounds and flash animations, whereby it is not simply representational as with Legilble City but it uses images from the mass media to 'sculpt' a space/city on the web.


Also along these same lines, in the first semester of Web Media I did a project called myHouse in which I took the concept of the home, moreover the spaces inhabited in the home and distorted and fragmented it, I was thinking of possibly taking this to a larger scale.