Link #3: https://blogs.ubc.ca/lauraulrich/2020/06/15/modebending/

Task 7: Mode-Bending asked us to take our picture from Task 1: What’s in Your Bag, and transform or “mode-bend” that picture from a semiotic mode to a different mode of our choice. Completing this task put me outside of my own comfort zone because I usually find comfort in semiotic representations of my thinking. For Task 7, I decided to verbally tell a story about the items in my bag and record this story, with sound effects, in an audio-book style. This definitely pushed my creativity to figure out how to take a picture, or a semiotic mode, and transform it into an auditory experience.

When I was exploring other colleague’s posts from Task 7, I was stopped in my tracks, initially by Sarah’s web space design, but also by Sarah’s mode-bending experience for her bag. Sarah’s webspace is visually grabbing with the organized side bars and visual components for the posts (pictures, gifs, diagrams, etc.). When you click on each post, there are different colours that tell you that you are on a different page from the one previous. These simple additions to Sarah’s webspace make the webspace very pleasing to navigate and explore.

This trend of multi-modal representations on Sarah’s webspace also translates into their posts. Sarah’s post for Task 7 is first presented with a reflection and a description of the creation process using both words and pictures to represent their ideas. This originally drew me into Sarah’s post, but the actual experience of her mode-bending representation, a combination of their “What’s in Your Bag” picture and sound effects that are related to each object, really blew my mind creatively. Sarah used itch.io to create her mode-bending representation, and I was taken on a creative journey through visuals and audio that seemed very intentional and purposeful to the task.

After experiencing Sarah’s webspace and Task 7 representation, I felt as though I had explored the webspace of someone who finds comfort in creativity. This creative comfort is clearly embedded throughout all of Sarah’s webspace and posts. Creativity is not something that I have always felt comfortable with, especially in my adult life, but Sarah’s overall experience that she provided in her Task 7 representation really inspired me to try and find comfort in creativity and to try and explore this creativity with confidence more often.