MAGCD
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Methods of Contextualising Written Response
Written response 1 Working with UAL’s waste data shifted my understanding of waste from a linear disposal process to a socio-material network. The spreadsheet revealed 909.48 tonnes distributed across 19 buildings, 19 waste types, 7,298 collection events, and 26 external destinations. Waste is coordinated through schedules, contractors, and treatment infrastructures. This complexity led me to…
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Methods of iterating Weekly update
Week 1 After first tutorial, I reconsidered my mediumI wanted: Entering a System-Based Tool, TouchDesigner, that has: week 2 In order to understand the software more deeply, I decided to copy an existing work before beginning my own iteration. I chose this work because its underlying logic appeared clear and analyzable. The animation maps sound…
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Methods of iterating Witten response
Written response 1 This project explores the transcription of audio signals into geometric motion. During the copying of the “Sequenced Plucks” project, a key question emerged: Should the priority be the visual “perfection” of the copy, or the “honesty” of a live, reactive system? Initially, I used TouchDesigner to analyze the audio spectrum. However, the raw audio…
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Outcome methods of cataloguing
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Methods of translating Weekly update
Week 1: Selection & Early Experiments — “When language fades, emotion becomes clearer” At the beginning of this project, I started thinking about what “translation” could mean beyond language. If translation is not just transferring words from one language to another but rather a process that shifts, distorts, and rebuilds meaning, I wanted to find material…
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Methods of translating Written response
Translating the Poor Image: A Queneau Experiment This written response reinterprets Hito Steyerl’s essay In Defence of the Poor Image (2009) through the structural method of Raymond Queneau’s Exercises in Style (1947). By rewriting Steyerl’s core arguments across five distinct styles, this experiment explores how form and tone reconfigure meaning. 1. Neutral Academic Version The poor image is a…
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Methods of cataloguing weekly update
week 1 The first stage of my project began with the idea of investigation through method. At that time, I was still exploring how observation could reveal relationships between perception and space. My previous project, Methods of Investigating, had focused on sensory mapping — sound walks, visual sketches, and note-taking inside a small park. From that experience,…
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Methods of cataloguing written response
This written response refers to the final two paragraphs of Michel Foucault’s The Order of Things(1970, pp. xxiii–xxiv), beginning with “It is evident that the present study is…” and ending with “…it is the same ground that is once more stirring under our feet.” These passages outline Foucault’s vision of knowledge as a series of epistemic thresholds, a structure…
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Methods of investigating Weekly update
week 1 This week I started exploring the small park near my accommodation as the site for my Unit 1 project. At first, I documented it through photography, trying to record its structure and atmosphere. However, I quickly realised that photography made me feel like an outsider — always observing from behind a lens. The…
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Methods of investigating Written response
My project From Camera to Connection explores how sound shapes personal perception of a small public park. It began as an attempt to document the site through photography, but gradually evolved into a sensory investigation of how listening changes the way I move and feel within space. Two readings that deeply informed this process are Georges Perec’s Species…