Practice Discourse

This is my blog for the optional module Practice Discourse LSAXS2009

Brendan Dawes

Brendan Dawes is a designer and works a lot with interactive webdesign which ivites people to use websites in a new way. Dawes and his co workers in Magnetnorth (webdesign company) wants to break bounderies and create something new, as they work a lot with flash, they can create somthing that are more 3D and more interactive with the user than the normal webpage you would find.

I really like Brendan Dawes for what he worked with, I found it really interesting and he was such a good person as well. Dawes got some unusual methods to prove his point as well which I really liked in his lecture. MagnetNorth has worked with the BBC and Diesel with their websites. I can't get on the their website mnatwork.com, I need to download flash, thats I don't like about flash, got it at home though as all the facebook games are made in flash and you need flash to use them. I'm downloading it now, we'll see how it goes. It didn't go that well unfortunately, I needed some kind of administrative priviledges. Dawes got his own website as well, I found his project Cinema Redux that he talked about in his lecture, really good that he got to exhibit it in modern museum in NY.

The Conversation (1974, Francis Ford Coppola)

This blog.

I am really trying to write about every artists and my reflections from the lectures and such. I have unfortunately missed out on two of the visiting lectures, the first Ian Anderson and the second Anab Jain these are both designers but different in their areas of work.

I have already written a few lines about Ian Anderson so a guess it is only fare to do the same about Anab Jain. I finding this women interesting, She is working with design that makes people interact with each other. This is very important in my opinion as people today lives in their own little bubble, Their home base, social circle and surroundings. We are suspicious about other human beings and as Wayne Hemingway pointed out in his lecture when he showed a sign placed in a public space that said "Say NO to strangers".

Anab Jain is an Indian artist, educated in India, Vienna and London and have now got 7 years of experience in different areas, film making, research and design. She is the founder Superflux a new "think and do" design company that working with the intersection of people and technology.

One of her projects was to share her internet with neighbors and strangers that walked past her house. Jain sat a yellow chair under a sign that explained that they could use her WiFi for free on the yellow chair. This is a test towards people's close mindedness, thinking probably that there was some kind of catch to this as it is not common to walk by a yellow chair that offers them FREE internet. Also a experiment to bring people together and to research the reactions this brought on.