User:JudithvanderHeiden
Unravel the Code
FIRST ASSIGNMENT
Meme
The Doge
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures
of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr.
These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned
with interior monologues in Comic Sans font. >http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/doge<
Features:
- Comic Sans
- Bad grammar
- Monolog
- Hysteria
- Dog with a human expression
- Deformation
- Remix
- Repetition
What if the meme was used within a topical serious context ?
Refugee doge
With context as our overal theme we created a multi layered meme
which contains the opinions of certain groups within the western community.
Depending on the context we make our decisions wether we agree with
something or not.
The current situation in the middle-east is in a few ways similar to the second
world war. We take the refugees as a subject to use for our installation. By making
one image of the two events we create a different dimension in which the same
comments generate an ethical concern.
Digital
Digital behaviour can be seen all around us.
People are drawn into their phones, staring
at a screen, and missing what is happening
around them. Social media has brought us as
closer together as it had drawn us apart.
[RESEARCH]
Virtual reality
We tend to think that virtual reality lives within the glasses of an oculus rift, the glasses that show a virtual enviroment which looks like your actually standing in it.
But we are not aware of the fact that we already spend a lot of time in virtual reality online. Like social media in which your profile represents a virtual version of yourself.
A virtual version that communicates with other virtual versions, a version of yourself that is spread a round the web wether it is your profile on facebook or your google searches that
companies use to influence you as a consumer.
The fact that we already spent so much time online made me think of a scenerio in which the oculus rift is highly advanced and virtual reality and actual reality become hard to distuingish.
If there could be world where you can design and adapt everything about you and your enviroment how much time would you spent there? Would you spent any more time in the actual reality?
How would your day look like? What would be
With these questions in mind me and Laura
