The Affective Topology of New Media Art... Again!

• Following Derrick de Kerckhove. we can conceptualize this tactile modal-ity of the haptic as a "seeing with the entire body." According to de Kerckhove, contemporary media involves a bodily miming that is entirely separate from vision, narrowly constructed: "We understand moving spectacular experiences through submuscular integration and not, as for example is the case in dance, because we directly take part in them.

• ... television offers a stress like form of cognition. We understand what we see because we imitate or mine the events with out neuromuscular responses... [C]oordinated and simultaneous al- terations in our pulse [and] blood pressure... demonstrate that we see that which we observe with our whole body, and not just our eyes."

So I've officially finished reading the reading. And to be honest I didn't really enjoy the reading but it did spark some ideas that connect with my own work. Throughout this course we've been given multiple readings and I've come to realize that not all of them are going to be something I consider useful. I have an extremely short attention span when it comes to reading, within the first chapter of a book I can tell you if I'm interested or not. But with this reading I just had to find things that connect with my own work. 

I think movement and space are two things I've been thinking about with my own fourth year work. I think it's important to realize that when viewing work people are going to move around a piece even if it is not sculptural and I think you really need to take into consideration all aspects of a piece. 

So that's all I have to say. I'm officially done with this whole blog thing. Like I said before I feel like writing a blog is just a way to rant on the internet and if you know me ranting online is not necessary, I do it enough as it is!

Final Project

Well I've finally finished my BFA! And by that I mean I finished my last digital project and I now have no more work to do. Thank god.

The digital project became a lot of fun I think because I got the opportunity to relax and play with the camera more so than I normally do. I stopped looking at the photographs on the screen of the camera and simply began taking numerous pictures and then looking through them afterwards on the computer. So I never knew exactly what I had until I finally sat down to edit the pictures.

I ended up printing 12 of my favourite photographs and posting 42 images on my Flickr page. This was the best way I thought to present the work because initially I wanted to print these photographs on fine art paper, which I did but because of cost issues I only printed a small number of them. I wanted to post them online to show the ones I considered the most successful and got the chance to compare the difference between the printed images and how they looked on the screen. I enjoy seeing them on the fine art paper because I think they are so rich and dense but you get to see the subtleties of the image when you look at it on the screen. So below is the link to my Flickr page with the finished works!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/reneedanielle/sets/72157629796424883/