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'Communication' is one of the most hateful words. I have dedicated my best energies to retaining this disgust. I am offended by the smug and complacent techniques designed to facilitate the passage of one man's thought to another, served up as they are in a syrupy sauce of democracy and smiling optimism. |
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| Prompt I: flâneur |
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The term flâneur (or jetter) comes from the French verb flâner, which means "to stroll". It is a term that Charles Baudelaire theorized as method for understanding the multidimensional, ever-changing nature of the urban environment. The idea is that you’ll learn the most about the true nature of a city by idly wandering, even getting lost in it. Similarly the Situationist used the term dérive, which means to drift, and engaged it as a strategy for appreciating the “psychogeography” of place. These ideas throw into question many of the assumptions of interface design, indeed the very nature of learning and exchanging ideas. Our first prompt is to take serious these ideas both in the process of developing a project and in the final navigational structures that the viewer/participant will engage.
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| Prompt 2: computational aesthetics |
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