Cybernetic Self Introduction

Within this lecture, the first thing that we were told about was to make sure that we used are blogs throughout the year because they're very important to do this year. As it is used to show our pieces of development and design work throughout second year. We need to make sure that we blog about everything, for example:

• Theory as Practice
• Studio
• Process and Production 
• Lecture and Seminars
• Work that we do at home to do with Studio Work 
• And finally the teachers, tutors and lecturers feedback is very important to blog about. 

So if we speak to a member of staff, we need to always make some notes about the feedback that you're receiving, as this will become useful to look back at. It will also help you throughout your studio projects. 

We then watched a video about the Jamison Family, who show there friends and us a guide to the internet. The video was called Early 1990's Internet Commercial, I found that this film was very interesting, but strange at the same time because it wasn't like anything that I had really watched before.

       

After this we were then given our first brief of Second Year, which is Cybernetic Self. It is a 4 week project, where we need to include Research, Development and the Actual Output. Once we had been told the name of our brief we were then told that we must always consider these three terms throughout this project. Non of them I had really of before, however I was intrigued to find out what they all meant. These were:

• Autopoiesis
• Sociomaterial
• Network Self 

Once we had looked at this, we then started to talk about self presentation, social connection and how people are branding themselves through social media. I found this part very interesting because this statement could mean many different points, it could mean that people use social media to show the world there design work. However, another point is Catfish which is people hiding and branding themselves as some that they're not. It could also be used to show people what interest you in the world, for example we use social media like Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat to show Friends, Family and the world about you. 

We were then shown someone called Amalia Ulman, who is a fine art student that decided to explain a story that was made up through the form of photographs. She took 175 photos within 5 months. I thought that this very interesting and very creative. 

Sociomaterial 

• People
• Materials
• Equipment
• Institutions
• Components

Autopoiesis - Its own processes.

We then watched a documentary called Foundational Principles Of Cybernetics. I found that this documentary was quite interesting and very informational, as it contained lots of facts about Cybernetics.

What defines us?

How does interaction with other affect that? Redefine the self portrait, the selfie. 

Outcome

Graphic Design - A Printed Document. (Magazine Supplement).

Animation- A Digital Short, Moving Image or Animation

Week One - 27/09/2016

Idea Generation - Research 

Week Two - 04/10/2016

Formalise and Develop Ideas 

Week Three - 11/10/2016

Begin Composing Final Output

Week Four - 18/10/2016

Refine and Finalise. 

I am really looking forward to this project because it means that I can be very experimental and look into things that I wouldn't normally look into. I want to be really creative with this brief.