User:Noemiino/RESEARCH DOCUMENT

Forward/Introduction

(tell us about yourself and your practice)
A essay/ Research document about machines, objects and human feelings. We found a knitting machine: the Open Knit [1],[2]. We used this machine and adapted it for our purposes. This machine is only able to knit technically simple tube patterns. However, the idea that a machine is able to copy the result of a human craft. Actually a lot of people are unaware that most knitted clothes are made bye knitting machine, who knits all your cloths. Please take a closer look at your one cloths.

In this essay I do not want to tell you about how to knit, but the charm of a knitting machine as an object and as a human made machine. In this way we can investigate and create some empathy between human kind and machines.

Abstract

(in 250 words or less, explain the essence of your research project)

Central Question

Do we loose or gain information by distortion?

• Defining lost -- To define lost first I would have to define what is *found*.
  

found -- Looking at an image the is information to be found. Specifically in a portrait there is information about the person that makes them specific. Facial features that make them recognisable.
lost -- Manipulating part of the "found" information would lead to changing the specific features and making them unrecognisable.
part -- The part that is being manipulated are the pixels making up the digital image. The pixels contain information on the most zoomed in level.
digital image -- Capturing the digital image with a camera or webcam or kinect?
pixels -- What information does a pixel really contain? It is a block of color. What distortion can be made to a pixel?
-- Pixel has x & y position. Can you add it a z position? What happens when you start changing up one of these variables? Or 2? Or all three of them?
-- Can the information change from a color block to a graphic element? ASCII .

Relevance of the Topic

(why is this worth pursuing? explain the urgency of your project)

Hypothesis

(what do you think will happen or what will the effect be of your work?)

Visuals and experience

I think by dishumanating the portrait or presence of a person we can touch upon a more objective viewpoint. Do we still see ourselves in the pixels (AScii) or is that an alienated view? A new reality shown augmented into the real.

Research Approach

(how do you define and design your research? what activities/approaches/methods will you pursue while conducting your research?)

Key References

(how does your work relate to contemporary makers? what a key analogues/works of inspiration?)

Literature

(what texts will/can support this investigation?)

Experiments

(what are you going to test out and why)

Insights from Experimentation

(what have you pulled from your hands on practice based research?)

Artistic/Design Principles

(what is your own criteria for designing?)

Artistic/Design Proposal

(what do you propose to make)

AN installation where a kinect traces you as an ascii code in 3d space. so when you move close up you zoom into one pixel.

Realised work

(what did you actually make)

Final Conclusions

(what was the point? what do you take away?)

Bibliography

(what did you reference in this text (other texts, images, films, exhibitions)? Remember to use proper in-text citing!!!!!!!!!!
Body as interface! http://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-3/from-gui-to-nui-microsofts-kinect-and-the-politics-of-the-body-as-interface/
emBody(text) { http://www4.ncsu.edu/~dmrieder/embodytext/