- Definitely experiment with voice and speech, especially for task 1. The power of the female voice has a long history and basis in feminist work and stories, play upon that. Do more research into this too. Lots of possible applications and manipulations of voice — speech recognition, text bubbles, thinking about the voice as a enacting agent, the voice and code performing simultaneously.
- Commenting the code, thinking about the variables and commands and functions! as part of the package. As visible, active agents? actants? components in this experience. Acknowledging them as the constructors in these worlds, by naming and calling upon them in accessible ways. "Thinking about functions as incantations of the environment" !!!
- Cyberfeminism — lots of examples centred around performance in the 90s and 00s. Spend a good day researching this! Find precedents and cool things to play with.
- Output — Is this one big cumulative thing that you're working towards, or a series of code/hybrid material experiments, functioning as little micro worlds. Is it a web-based output that supports these p5 environments, and enables performance through live feeds/interaction? A video piece that records the performance? Where am I, as a performative agent in this? Untangling/entangling the bounds of the project outcome and the documentation.
- The idea of a theatre, and stage — think through who gets to play on that stage. Who's voice, and narratives am I amplifying/"collaborating" with?
- Generative poetry — yes make the process more transparent! Would be good to have it as an element/process that the audience is aware of, but not privy to. Playing with the idea of 'secret knowledge' that surrounds witches, witchcraft, and cyborgs too.
- 3D — WEBGL & p5 is working well at the moment, if things become hard/you can't do something specific look into 3.js and Aframe, for higher level support with 3D.
Action list
- RESEARCH
- performance in Cyberfeminism beyond VNS Matrix
- performative poetry/voice projects
- Queerness and performativity... !
- MAKING
- Consciously commenting into the code. Inserting a sort of meta awareness/another layer of agency --> construction of the world --> ontology in relating to the body? Think about it as open architecture???
- Experiment with voice input, get speech recognition working?
- THINKING
- Outcome vs. documentation
- Form and boundaries — video, web, interactive??, live thing? One big outcome or a series of spaces/experiments/worlds?
- TASK 1
- Image-making?? Maybe if you need a break from code, not a priority
- Slides! Communicating clearly and concisely!
- Show experiments
- Work out timeline
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