Kim Plowright
I'm a creative digital producer and product manager, and helped establish the National Film and Television School’s first digital producing course. I have a secret double life as an artist.
Location Canterbury, UK
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Hi. Have basically had a career in making transmedia.
Done well, it enhances the experience and allows 'fannish' behaviours to flourish. It deepens engagement, and can create emotional connection and community through story worlds. It can create activism, too - but that can go sour..
Done badly, it's the worst of attention-extractive cynical monetisation...
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Video, contrary to popular belief, did not kill the radio star.
Videogames are gesamtkunstwerks.
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Transmedia can be a creative choice - and, indeed, started out as a term derived from Jenkin's studies of fandom, where IP franchises like Star Trek or Star Wars gave rise to cohesive story worlds that spread between film, fan fictions, books...
"So I think there’s an entire marketing industry that would say transmedia is a way of promotion. It’s a way of... -
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Considering models like Patreon - the 'famous for fifteen people' model might mean more support for indie creators, but it puts more pressure on them to master marketing and self promotion alongside their craft. Patreon and similar micro patronage models are still making considerable money from 'disintermediating' the big record companies, publishers and...
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I've stopped listening to albums these days - everything is on shuffle. I've migrated from tape, to CD, to mp3, but somehow I've never moved to pure streaming; I'm a collector. I tend to favour Bandcamp with its individual revenue model rather than iTunes; discovery tends to happen via social media, or editorial mentions. Or, actually, um, Radio! (And I...
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I think it's not just subsectors, but different strata of roles within sectors that are strongly impacted. For instance, photographers are impacted by digital circulation of images; the availability of huge stock libraries moves professionals towards micropayment royalty models. Similar issues exist for musicians, artists, writers - the 'long tail' economics...
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I think digital platforms and access have increased the volume and frequency of my cultural consumption, and also broadened my awareness. I've been extremely online since the mid-90s, so have used online tools as ways to discover and experience new creative media. I've worked in the field for most of my career, too. I'm a restless pursuer of links, and make an...
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Not a website, but I use accessibility options on my mobile. I tend to turn off the motion animation options - I find them distracting. I think I may have bumped up the font size on my phone interface too, for ease of reading, and set the 'Night shift' option to change the screen colour after sunset. I routinely use dark mode on websites and OSes to ease...
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The different bits of the BBC site look different because they are designed and run by different departments within the organisation - siloed organisations produce siloed websites. There's been a lot of work to adopt a standard design language across the BBC site, and there are good reasons why you'd want iPlayer to behave differently to a news homepage - the...
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Kim Plowright replied to Cassandra Misciagna
Redesigns can be deeply confusing, especially for older people. The effort of 'relearning' how to use a site is considerable, and if you have mild cognitive issues it can be a huge barrier.
There's a lot of griping in certain corners of design about 'how all websites look the same now' - and I'm not sure that's a terrible thing. Adopting good accessible...
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CSS didn't exist when I made my first website... ugh, I'm old.
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Kim Plowright replied to Paul Kearney
Dreamweaver! Fancy!
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Kim Plowright made a comment
Not so much a problem, but I tweak my OS quite a lot to make it feel more comfortable. I use a programme launcher called Alfred, which helps me minimise the amount of time I spend using a mouse or trackpad, as I have RSI and I prefer to use keyboard controls wherever possible. I tend to use dark modes, and wherever possible I will theme apps to use a low...
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I'm amused to find my personal website - which I coded using HTML4.1 and tables for layout about (oh my...) 17 years ago, only has three accessibility errors. I think that's luck rather than judgement though :)
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This week has reminded me that Accessibility is a constantly evolving thing: whilst I knew the basics, every innovation brings changes to the things you need to consider to keep your services accessible. I've got very out of date in the last few years, and I'm starting to think about how I might make my next project 'born accessible', too.
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Having written content for another FutureLearn course, I think that accessibility is baked in to the approach the teams take to course content, too. The way that courses are split in to small steps, activities and learning activity types is designed to make the experience of learning accessible. It's an incredibly usable site, and the accessibility statement...
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The Derwent Art Prize was due to happen this spring, not long after lockdown. They launched it as a '3d Virtual Tour' using an online platform, which... well, I haven't had the courage to actually run it through an accessibility tool because... well. I'm not sure that it's a good thing to make someone learn a completely new web navigation paradigm in order to...
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I've worked on some game-adjacent VR projects where I've been unable to properly play the final thing the team has made, because I get such severe simulator motion sickness from VR.
I also get motion sickness from some games that have a lot of lens distortion at the edges of the screen - Bioshock, for instance. I managed about 15 minutes before giving up (and... -
Kim Plowright replied to Jeni Scott
Hello, fellow Y Axis inverter :)
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I enjoy visual arts - particularly drawing, which I also do semi-professionally. Consuming visual art is obviously not hugely accessible if you have restricted vision, and although some big public galleries provide eg large print exhibition guides, I wonder how many provide the equivalent of audio description?
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I think there are some really interesting assumptions about the ability to remember gesture with apple watches. So they assume
- you understand that swiping your finger in different directions on the screen will do different things
- you can learn and remember these different gestures with no visual, physical or auditory prompts from the interface
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https://www.musiciansunion.org.uk/Home/Advice/covid-19/music-teaching/online
> Musicians Union - Teaching Music Online - Guidance for teachers moving over to online lessons during the Coronavirus outbreakhttps://www.ism.org/blog/online-teaching
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Hi Sophia
A lot of the Musicians associations and unions in the UK put out material to support their members at the start of lockdown. Here are a few quick links I've found by googling 'resources for taking music teaching online':-
https://www.ism.org/advice/online-learning-resources
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Even an option to turn off comment pagination, and show all of them on one page so I could use my browser's on-page search for keywords like subject areas would help.
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I think - as someone who has lived online for twenty years now - try not to worry. The tools will very quickly become second nature, and you'll adapt to the 'thinner' interactions. Also - from experience - keep it simple. Do less. Everyone will thank you.
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Its been really useful to steer my overall teaching practice, and not just my online skills.
Taking a learner-focused approach, and seeing the teaching models discussed applied in the course structure has been really helpful. It's made me think much harder about how i plan sessions, and the tools given will help me structure my thinking in the future.
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Hey @SophiaOkde you might find @RobertoEstrella comment from 24th August about a resource for music teachers useful.
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@SophiaOkde You might find this comment useful
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For me, thinking in depth about pedagogy and ways of delivering learning through different modes and activities has been really useful. Depening the knowledge from working on a couple of online courses has helped me think about my overall teaching practice (I'm not a trained teacher, so had no 'theory' to back up my practice). It's also quite mindbending to...
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PPP is a really useful model for student 1-1s at postgrad level - I've used it with face to face teaching, and I use it when line managing in digital work too.
I'm planning a remote/online group drawing class at the moment, and I think PPP is a useful model to use in discussions after each drawing session - what were you aiming for in this drawing? What...
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I teach Digital Production at postgraduate diploma level, and am also about to teach an art evening class in Life Drawing for my local Adult Education organisation. I've also written courses in digital skills for the workplace for FutureLearn. I'm UK based.
My tactic for finding people has been paging through the comments and using Chrome's 'search in...
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Still quite anxious ;)
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It's tough (and bitterly ironic) that some of the areas where arts orgs can have the biggest social benefit are those where it's toughest for those orgs to rely on individual giving.
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Kim Plowright made a comment
Does anyone have the correct link for the CulturePro Professional Development Tool?
I think balance always comes from understanding context: as an artist I understand that without funds and support I can't make my work, and that collaboration means stronger work for everyone. I think it's possible to engage with the funding bodies and the changing climate...
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I think that an awareness of fundraising activity and techniques is useful for all staff - so an understanding of the income sources of the ACO, and the pressures and change occurring in the context of the wider sector is really useful. It's about understanding the financial model that enables the work. But - dedicated people / teams are key - fundraising is...
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I feel that there's a skills gap (well, I have a gap!) around
- strategy / planning for fundraising, and understanding best practice
- partnerships - articulating and selling the benefits of partnership to potential funders
- demonstrating the impact of funding, in order to make better bids the future
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Hi, I'm Kim. I'm on the advisory board of a local arts centre which is updating its fundraising plan at the moment, so I'm keen to get background knowledge to apply in the role.
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Kim Plowright replied to Kerry Nagel
Hey all: you might want to try Evernote. The browser addons let you capture the text on a page and store it for later in a searchable personal database - I find it really handy for notes and teaching. It can store PDFs too. Useful stopgap before official transcripts!
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...so ways of finding unchanging anchor features in scans where lots of lines are changing due to atrophy... Wow, hard programming challenge! Thanks for clarifying.
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Kim Plowright replied to Kim Plowright
You're right, sorry - my folks were... less able to participate when I realised how important it was to find communities to share support.
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Kim Plowright made a comment
Technical question! In section 1.8 the risk factors given for APOE related sporadic dementias are higher for women than men - via http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21556001
Reading wikipedia (sorry) I see that AßPP is thought to have some relationship to hormonal regulation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyloid_precursor_protein#Hormonal_regulation
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Kim Plowright replied to Emeka Ajuzie
Strokes can cause vascular dementia - about 20% of people who have a stroke develop some symptoms of vascular dementia within 6 months. https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?documentID=161
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Kim Plowright replied to Kellyn Weir
My dad had a Mixed dementia diagnosis - which was a specific diagnosis, and means it's dementia caused by a mix of Alzheimer's and Vascular Dementia. So - all the protein stuff of AD, plus reduction in blood flow due to e.g. a stroke, TIA, or smoking, or....
https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?documentID=161
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Kim Plowright replied to Phil Burner
It's different for Adverts, from what I remember - there's a expectation that you've got consent for use of a person in an ad as there's implied endorsement of the product, which I think is covered by law in a way that just getting caught in shot isn't. You'd generally not look to clear people in the background for a documentary or news shoot.
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I imagine that it varies a lot by location, but there are good sources of support out there. AgeUK were amazing for my folks, as were Admiral Nurses and our local GP. CrossRoads Care offered a completely brilliant respite worker for my Mum, who... she was amazing. You do have to get on the radar of the networks, but they do support you. Informal networks...
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Yes. Do this, get POA, all of you. As soon as you can. Power of Attourney is so important.
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Kim Plowright made a comment
So - checking I've understood - the Boundary Shift Integral technique is a computer vision algorithm that matches patterns / identifies differences in MRI scan outputs? Essentially this is testing software?
And it's useful because it makes the process of checking for results in clinical drug trials an easier, quicker and more reliable process than measuring...
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Checking in to remind you to take a little break and have a cup of tea in the sun. x
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Kim Plowright replied to [Learner left FutureLearn]
Hi Jill Grant - guessing you have accessibility needs with the diagram? Will try to describe it.
It's a bubble plot, just showing groupings of genes in areas of the graph.
Vertical Axis: Risk for Alzheimers.
Scale: Low risk, Medium Risk, High Risk, Causes AlzheimersHorizontal Axis: How many people have the gene?
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I think MS is a disorder where the myelin proteins that cover the outside of nerve cells gowrong. Different type of proteins are involved, so there's a different mechanism for the disease. Roughly - AD adds faulty protein plaques and tangles, MS removes useful, good protein coats.
People with MS can develop mild dementia, but it's not the same kind of...
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Kim Plowright replied to fay fletcher
People with Down's syndrome are statistically much more likely to develop Alzheimers, and at a younger age than people without Down's. It's not fully understood why, but Chromosome 21 carries the Amyloid gene which is related to AD, and this is the 'extra' chromosome in Down's.
https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?documentID=103I...
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Kim Plowright made a comment
I'm really interested to hear about the state of research, and from medical and care professionals. There's so much misinformation and misunderstanding floating around on the internet - partly because the mechanics of dementia are still being understood by the scientific community. I think it's really important that the community of people who care for PWD...
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Kim Plowright made a comment
I'm taking the course because I'm interested in seeing what online learning around Dementia care might look like, and wondering about how I might use my skills to contribute to social acceptance and support for PWD. I've recently lost both of my parents - my Dad after 10+ years with mixed dementia/alzheimers, and my Mum within six months of her formal dementia...
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Kim Plowright replied to Patricia Forsyth
"P.S. I'm a bit of a joker, well not so much joker, but one has to make light of the illness."
(small reassuring shoulder bump of recognition from me, there. You gotta laugh, right?)
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Kim Plowright replied to Phil Burner
Legal training courses when working at the BBC!
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I've just been reading up on the Channel 4 'Viewer Trust' guidelines, which have a lot of info around how a broadcaster expects you to handle consent, ethics and balance. Worth reading if you're interested in this area.
http://www.channel4.com/producers-handbook/c4-guidelines/viewer-trust-guidelinesThe BBC publishes their guidelines,...
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Kim Plowright made a comment
Recce is spelled as 'recky' in the subtitles, btw course leaders!
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Kim Plowright replied to Tina Bean
Miu -agreed. A film for Instagram is going to be very different to a film for BBC one!
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You'd very, very rarely allow someone the opportunity to withdraw consent after seeing a cut when working for eg Channel 4 - as you're ceding editorial control when you do that. Consent happens at the time of filming,
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Kim Plowright replied to Phil Burner
Depends on the crowd! If you're asking them to attend for filming, you'll need consent and release forms. If you're filming in a public place the usual approach is to clearly sign that you're filming at eg entrances and give a way for An individual to opt out. You don't have a right to privacy in public spaces in UK law, and you don't have rights over your...
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Kim Plowright replied to Sandeep Mogha
Oh -Martin Nutbeem - got a link to the mobile nob-linear thing you mentioned? Interested!
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Kim Plowright replied to Sandeep Mogha
Sure! Linear is a story that runs in a conventional sense - beginning-middle-end, where a viewer will tend to watch it in the order set out be the creator of the story. Hollywood films, tv drama, novels....
Non-linear stories give the viewer more agency: using various mechanics you can hop around, experience elements out of order, choose your own path, or... -
Kim Plowright replied to Narada C
But he really isn't vulnerable at that point! It's re-inforcing his general bad-ass-ness. He's not being offered up to the viewer - Ripley is really vulnerable and under threat at the equivalent moment. Even as really super strong women, they get undermined in those moments and shown as weak.
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Kim Plowright replied to Sandeep Mogha
... but you are also right about the changes to distribution, VFX etc brought about by digital technology. The production has changed hugely - but the storytelling structures are staying very stable within that.
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Kim Plowright replied to Sandeep Mogha
Sandeep's original point was about production and distribution of linear video, I think. With digital technology in broadcast it went in the other direction though - TV didn't really adopt low-cost/fast digital workflows until *after* things like miniDV were available to consumers - there was too much worry about devaluing production values etc.
Non-linear...
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Kim Plowright replied to Narada C
How many male scifi heroes strip to their underwear at a key moment in a film?
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Kim Plowright replied to Elene Marsden
Images labelled 'for reuse' aren't copyright free, necessarily! The copyright owner may have released them under a permissive license, so though they still own them, they allow you to use them in other works under a license like Creative Commons, which may have restrictions. For instance, no use in commercial projects, or no derivative works (eg you could use...
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Kim Plowright replied to Sandeep Mogha
I don't think it's revolutionised as much as democratised. I think the films people make are still broadly similar in structure and storytelling tropes: there's been some stylistic change but not much. People tend to use the tropes of the media they're familiar with when they start making their own content. The big change is in availability of technology, and...
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Kim Plowright made a comment
I am genuinely having difficulty thinking of any particular story I’ve enjoyed despite myself. I do have quite broad interests, admittedly, and will watch and enjoy nearly anything.
The closest I can get is perhaps Battlefield LA (edit: not Battlefield Earth- I have some standards!) - a big, dumb, loud movie about soldiers v aliens. I like Sci-Fi, so the...
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Kim Plowright replied to João Matos
Hi Ksenila, João
I recently found this book http://www.amazon.co.uk/Television-Wild-Web-Blaze-Trail-ebook/dp/B00NF2YUZG/ - Television and the Wild Wild Web, by Marx H. Pyle. It seems like a good introduction to web series and storytelling - and everything that goes with that like finding an audience - written by someone who is a practitioner. -
Kim Plowright replied to Kim Plowright
Bum. Mods, you can delete the above!
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Kim Plowright replied to John Gomez
Jerome: I think we're agreeing :)
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Kim Plowright replied to Aleksandra Dvoryanchikova
That's remarkable work, thank you!
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Kim Plowright replied to Aleksandra Dvoryanchikova
@Aleksandra - can you put the code up somewhere? I'd like to look at how you did it!
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Kim Plowright made a comment
https://flic.kr/p/xbvfiV Also running a bit late. I used colours so I could track the two sets of changing variables, then tried to draw lines at a consistent speed so I could understand how the maths was behaving. Also managed to write a bit of code that changes the save filename to the time and date on each image save, so I don't need to rename them...
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Note for course mods: If you copy and paste code samples from the PDF, they throw errors as the PDF has 'educated' the quotes to curly quotes.
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Kim Plowright replied to Peter S
In comments (not in code!)
^ means 'look up there' - usually the person is referring to something written earlier in a conversation. It might actually be *below* the current comment, because I think comments here sort with the newest on top!
^Lazy - the person directly above has been lazy
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Kim Plowright made a comment
Help - I'm trying to play with the defining a function code snippet, but getting an 'Error on "("' message
Getting this if I pull out that function in to its own sketch - have set up the 'radius' variable as a float - what am I missing?
void setup() {
}
void draw(){
float radius = 2.0;
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Kim Plowright replied to John Gomez
... hmn, OK, so if I rephrase the idea as 'It's impossible to create work without your knowledge of pre-existing culture being embedded within it' I think I have fewer problems with the idea of 'everything being a remix'. I think I have that blank sheet of paper conception of creating an 'original' work of art - but actually, you're never starting with a fresh...
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Kim Plowright replied to Nicky Thompson
Me too :) https://flic.kr/p/x9beAg
(I tried tweaking the squares to be long lines, then wanted to rotate them through 30 degrees so I could do fancy calligraphy, but using rotate() rotated my mouse input too. So I just mucked about with setting random colours within a certain range) -
Kim Plowright replied to Donna Fuerst
"particularly if it is generated by wrong discourse" - could you give me some examples of what you mean by 'wrong discourses' here?
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Kim Plowright replied to John Gomez
So if everything is a remix, is 'originality' impossible now? (Dim memories - is this Baudrillard?)
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Kim Plowright replied to Hannah Mason
So - does this mean the two things are inseparable? Can you tell if the instructions are a 'good' artwork unless you see the output? Is the output interesting if you know nothing about the generative input? (Thinking out loud here by asking questions!)
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Kim Plowright replied to Annalisa Kumi
I'm not sure if you can think of AI (like Google DeepDream) as independent of human interaction: everything it does emerges from the codebase, which authored by people. When you look at the images you're making a series of aesthetic and subjective judgements, too. Currently, I'd say mathematical analysis is looking at pattern making, and you still need a human...
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Kim Plowright replied to Marissa Deitz
I think your phrase 'a dialogue with your tools' is really important here. Code is an expression of intent - a formal way of describing what you want to do, of shaping output. The process of creating rule sets then tweaking and adapting them as you make aesthetic judgements about the output is a fundamentally creative process. The rule set and tweaking is also...
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Kim Plowright made a comment
Hello, I'm Kim. I'm really interested in processing, generative art and drawing, and think that it's about time I actually sharpen my coding skills...
