I am a 4th year BFA visual arts major. I am recently returning back to UBC after a long extended break from academia. It has been a different experience in terms of my process of artmaking as I feel that I am in a very different place than when I first started at UBC in 2010. I am looking at topics that relate to identity, memories, and motherhood. Now that I have a daughter, I feel that I engage with “art” differently. I am taking a backseat in the position of the gaze and trying to position myself as the other. I’ve separated my enjoyment from creating with my position as the art maker. I have a background in design, marketing, and painting. My learning objectives would be to understand how technology and the cyber world has influenced how we create art and the repercussions that arise from the troupe.
‘I am very quiet. Let the months and years come, they can take nothing
from me, they can take nothing more. I am so alone, and so without
hope that I can confront them without fear. The life that has borne me
through these years is still in my hands and my eyes. Whether I have
subdued it, I know not. But so long as it is there it will seek its own
way out, heedless of the will that is within me.’
The new kind of suffering which was born in 1914 and has persisted in
Western Europe until the present day was an inverted suffering. Men
fought within themselves about the meaning of events, identity, hope.
Religious faith, even if nominally accepted, was irrelevant. The mean-
ing they sought had to relate to a possibility that could not be dismissed
or forgotten because it was being constantly demanded by the new,
existing means of production and communication and calculation — by
what people came to call technology: the possibility of a unified world.
Man & Technics: Bernard Stiegler
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The question Stiegler was asked about his book was “how technics develop faster than culture and how has technics become an essential question/ necessary for us today?”
Technics develop faster than culture. Man and technics are indissociable. The phenomenon of hominization is the phenomenon of the technisciation of the living. Man is nothing other than technical life. But it took a long time to come into self-existences. Of his technical capabilities. Technic evolved in harmony with man. Technological rupture.
A relation of opposition between science and technics becomes a relation of composition.
The wide reach of globalization allowed for others to see what they are accomplishing with created a competition fought essentially through technical innovation.
–> economic war will translate into techno-scientific war.
Problem of divorce between social organization, spiritual organization, political, economic, epistemic, legal, metaphysical, biological. They are struck, overturned, exploded by the technical system through the dynamism of electronic technical.
In the video, Stiegler brings up the question regarding the speed at which culture and technics developes. In his claim, he statess that culture is always catching up technics. But looking into the question further, would there be a drive for new technics if it wasn’t for the way culture’s development. I don’t believe we can say that culture is a causation of technics but rather they are in correlation to eachother.
I am using digital storytelling as a way of remediating the oral traditions of my ancestors: the Heiltsuk nation. By using digital technology, it allows for the dissemination of knowledge, while representing the shift in storytelling. According to philosopher Fernando Flores wrote in Computers and Cognition: “The use of technology in turns lead to fundamental changes in what we do, and ultimately what it is to be human.” By concentrating on the relationship between nature and man through a series of networks that develop into kinship that are mirrored through the exploration of the story.
Work Cited: Loft, Steven, et al. Tracing Indigenous Pathways in New Media Art. University of Calgary
“what we cannot say [dance, paint, sing, mean] we cannot communicate. we can conceive of things that we cannot communicate but in fact, this has no meaning unless we can carry it back into the collectively…”
[t͡sʼkʷʼχtʰt͡ɬkʰt͡sʰ]
the invisible one here-with-me will be short
An exploration of Haíɫzaqv [Heiltsuk] language via an online interactive hyperlink story. The Haíɫzaqv language is mobilized with the aid of basic HTML coding as a way to connect the technology with the history. By doing so, it interrupts colonial expectation and engages new audiences by implicating the reader in the unfolding of language.
For my final project, I arrived at one question: what is our purpose? Based off of our discussions in class and the readings provided I feel that the narrative is “technology is our purpose” but based off of the Aristotelian argument, our purpose is not technology but rather our purpose aka our “chief good” is self-sufficient end, intrinsically rewarding and lacking nothing. Therefore, technology cannot be our purpose and we must abandon the drive to fullfil the emptiness of technology and rather focus inwards.
I am a 4th year BFA visual arts major. I am recently returning back to UBC after a long extended break from academia. It has been a different experience in terms of my process of artmaking as I feel that I am in a very different place than when I first started at UBC in 2010. I am looking at topics that relate to identity, memories, and motherhood. Now that I have a daughter, I feel that I engage with “art” differently. I am taking a backseat in the position of the gaze and trying to position myself as the other. I’ve separated my enjoyment from creating with my position as the art maker. I have a background in design, marketing, and painting. My learning objectives would be to understand how technology and the cyber world has influenced how we create art and the repercussions that arise from the troupe.
‘I am very quiet. Let the months and years come, they can take nothing
from me, they can take nothing more. I am so alone, and so without
hope that I can confront them without fear. The life that has borne me
through these years is still in my hands and my eyes. Whether I have
subdued it, I know not. But so long as it is there it will seek its own
way out, heedless of the will that is within me.’
The new kind of suffering which was born in 1914 and has persisted in
Western Europe until the present day was an inverted suffering. Men
fought within themselves about the meaning of events, identity, hope.
Religious faith, even if nominally accepted, was irrelevant. The mean-
ing they sought had to relate to a possibility that could not be dismissed
or forgotten because it was being constantly demanded by the new,
existing means of production and communication and calculation — by
what people came to call technology: the possibility of a unified world.
Man & Technics: Bernard Stiegler
—————————-
The question Stiegler was asked about his book was “how technics develop faster than culture and how has technics become an essential question/ necessary for us today?”
Technics develop faster than culture. Man and technics are indissociable. The phenomenon of hominization is the phenomenon of the technisciation of the living. Man is nothing other than technical life. But it took a long time to come into self-existences. Of his technical capabilities. Technic evolved in harmony with man. Technological rupture.
A relation of opposition between science and technics becomes a relation of composition.
The wide reach of globalization allowed for others to see what they are accomplishing with created a competition fought essentially through technical innovation.
–> economic war will translate into techno-scientific war.
Problem of divorce between social organization, spiritual organization, political, economic, epistemic, legal, metaphysical, biological. They are struck, overturned, exploded by the technical system through the dynamism of electronic technical.
In the video, Stiegler brings up the question regarding the speed at which culture and technics developes. In his claim, he statess that culture is always catching up technics. But looking into the question further, would there be a drive for new technics if it wasn’t for the way culture’s development. I don’t believe we can say that culture is a causation of technics but rather they are in correlation to eachother.
I am using digital storytelling as a way of remediating the oral traditions of my ancestors: the Heiltsuk nation. By using digital technology, it allows for the dissemination of knowledge, while representing the shift in storytelling. According to philosopher Fernando Flores wrote in Computers and Cognition: “The use of technology in turns lead to fundamental changes in what we do, and ultimately what it is to be human.” By concentrating on the relationship between nature and man through a series of networks that develop into kinship that are mirrored through the exploration of the story.
Work Cited: Loft, Steven, et al. Tracing Indigenous Pathways in New Media Art. University of Calgary
http://philome.la/brittownrow/digital-storytelling/play
http://philome.la/brittownrow/digital-storytelling/play
follow the link to connect to the digital storytelling of Gvi’ilas – The Heiltsuk Nation
“what we cannot say [dance, paint, sing, mean] we cannot communicate. we can conceive of things that we cannot communicate but in fact, this has no meaning unless we can carry it back into the collectively…”
[t͡sʼkʷʼχtʰt͡ɬkʰt͡sʰ]
the invisible one here-with-me will be short
An exploration of Haíɫzaqv [Heiltsuk] language via an online interactive hyperlink story. The Haíɫzaqv language is mobilized with the aid of basic HTML coding as a way to connect the technology with the history. By doing so, it interrupts colonial expectation and engages new audiences by implicating the reader in the unfolding of language.
http://philome.la/brittownrow/mother-tongue
works cited:
Howe, Darin. (1998). Aspects of Heiltsuk laryngeal phonology. Ms., University of British Columbia
Terence Mckenna – Catalyzing Consiousness, Language, and the Role of Artists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SGVSsZWKvw
UBC First Nations and Endangered Languages, Mother Tongues Dictionary
https://mothertongues.org/heiltsuk/#/search
The website to download the program is:
http://twinery.org/
the recommended version:
Version 1.4.2 for Windows and OS X is also available.
a twitter account is necessary to upload your game through
philome.la
some basic ideas of how your game will look:
https://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/5163
simple marquee HTML codes:
https://www.quackit.com/html/codes/html_marquee_code.cfm
https://newhive.com/townrow/visa-481
https://newhive.com/townrow/visa-481-visual-essay
https://newhive.com/townrow/visa-481-visual-essay
https://newhive.com/townrow/final-project
For my final project, I arrived at one question: what is our purpose? Based off of our discussions in class and the readings provided I feel that the narrative is “technology is our purpose” but based off of the Aristotelian argument, our purpose is not technology but rather our purpose aka our “chief good” is self-sufficient end, intrinsically rewarding and lacking nothing. Therefore, technology cannot be our purpose and we must abandon the drive to fullfil the emptiness of technology and rather focus inwards.