User:Evaschoren

Digital Craft

For the first lesson we went to Boijmans van Beuningen and chose and artefact. Here I found several interesting objects. And at first I choose Chaise Lounge Model 313, 1932 by Marcel Breuer. But that afternoon I decided to change my artefact for anoter intersting one, because I had no inspiration for the first one. My new arteface is You can not lay down your memories by Tejo Remy.I got a lot more inspired by this artefact, especially by its form and name.

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Assignement 1

20 printed A5 images about some research of the chosen artefact

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Assignment 2

Use the artefact of your groupmate and create a contrafactual past and a speculative future for the artefacts

Statement of the artefact and its relation to the “Cutting edge of the present”

“You can not lay down your memory”

Your memory is something very personal. You can choose wether to share them, or to keep them to yourself. You can spread them by showing others, and keep them private by leaving them in your head, where no one has access to it.

These days our mobile devices become more and more important to us. They became part of our lives, and by that, part of our memories. An important feature of these mobile devices is that they can hold tons of memories for you. Some you might even have forgotten.

The most common way to store these memories on your phone will be though pictures. You make them every time you see something nice, something important, something shocking, and so on. They are being stored at your camera roll, for days, other months and others for years. A lot of these pictures don’t appear anywhere else but in this camera roll. They are being stored there for several years, and yet, you still don’t print them out, share them on social media or even throw them away.

This is a fascinating aspect of our connection to memories and our phones. They become a certain storage for our memories. We store our memories in the form of pictures, and take a look at them once a few weeks. We determine ourselves wether to make them public, or keep them private.

Contrafactual past Past Dresser by Zoe van Peperstraten

Eva chose to focus on the artwork You can not lay down your memory made by the artist Tejo Remy. The artwork shows different layers tied together. It is a symbol of memories. For this assignment I had to make a contrafactual past. I made a dresser with different layers and keys. My dresser resembles the memory of a young child. There are not a lot of memory's yet. So there are not a lot of layers. Every layer is a memory, so the more memories there are, the more layers there will be. So I think the original artwork resembles the memories of an adult. It is falling apart and hold together with a rope, because there are more memories. In my prototype I put some keys with it. Every key opens a memory, in the memory there is a sound or smell. Because this is a prototype there is no actual sound or smell.

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Speculative future

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Contrafactual past

Past chair by Eva Schoren

The sexy relaxy is a chair which makes you sit in a certain way. The chair forces you to spread your legs. By this, it also forces women to open their legs, which creates a sexual tension. This chair was inspired by the chairs back in the days, specially designed for little girls.

Back in the days, it was necessarily for women to sit in a certain way. Their sitting posture was connected to a certain social rule. They had to sit straight up, legs crossed over each other and their chin up.

A lot of mothers had trouble to cope with teaching their little girls to sit in the right way. They simply did not do it right at all. Luckily for the mothers their little girls were being sent to girls school, where they learned all the important stuff they should know when becoming a house mom by their selves one day. Knitting, cooking, cleaning, but also sitting in the right way. The schools for girls had a smart way to learn these girls to sit in the right way. They developed a chair, which forces them to sit in a certain way. Their back had to be straight up, their chin should be up in the sky, their legs crossed over each other and their arms resting on their lap. The chair made sure of it all, and by doing all the work in this chair, they learned how to sit in the right way.

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Speculative future

Future artefact by Eva Schoren

The L’Enigme d’Isidore Ducasse (The Enigma of Isidore Ducasse) is a secret object, wrapped in a blanket, leaving a lot to the imagination of the viewer. No one knows exactly what is behind the blanket, only the artist itself.

We live in a world where almost everything is accessible, so this object becomes extra appealing for us because in a way we can not access it. Looking to the future, we will enter an era where there are no such things as secrets anymore. Nothing can be hidden for one other and everything has to be there and has to be able to being read.

In the future this accessibility will be even more available. Everything is being shared more and more, and eventually, in the far futrure, there will be no secrets anymore, anywhere. Everything has been shared. Everything needs to be transparent for everyone. So does the artifact. There are no secrets anymore in the world, so the artifact does not contain a secret anymore as well. It is a completely transparent box, which contains nothing and can be see through by everyone. It is wrapped up, but with transparent paper and a transparent line so you are still able to see through everything and be ensured there is nothing hidden anymore.

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