Potential Projects

I was facinated by the lecture that Tom gave us on liveness and the development of a live performance since the introduction of digital media. Recently, at the radio station I work at, we've been looking at automation systems to implement some programming 24 hours a day. It sort of saddened all of us that buy purchasing one of these systems we run the risk of "the death of the DJ." I don't know what is special about it, but having someone really cueing up a cd or an lp really makes a difference on air. There's a "live" element to it, even if everything is still pre-recorded except the DJ's voice. Now with podcasting and webstreaming becoming the way many people receive music, the live element becomes completely almost completely nonexistent. I might like to examine the ways digital media requires performers (DJ's, musicians etc.) to add another element of spectacle to their show in order to maintain an audiences attention.

I've also toyed around with the idea of writing and beginning a digital graphic novel while I'm here. I've been consuming written ones like crazy lately, and I've storyboarded one about a robot that falls in love with nature. I've had the story laid out for almost a year now, but I've had very little time and guidance in order to sit down and actually get cracking on it. I'm even getting some ideas for a possible cyberpunk graphic novel. I'd like to incorporate digital images and animations to create a more submersive graphic novel experience.

I'm also really interested in the effect that new digital media has had on the physical objects of "old media" (what a retarded term, I refuse to use it, someone suggest something better please). You can commonly just walk into junk shops and find tons of old plastic cameras, super 8 film cameras, old video gaming systems, lp's, 45's, radios, etc. I'm really interested in what happens with the disposal of these objects in the next few years as our culture rapidly shifts toward the digital realm.

Yeah so, um completely different topics...my head is kinda swirling with all these ideas right now, I don't even know where to begin.