What is a story?
A lesson, a teaching
An investigation
A meeting, a conversation
A mourning, a warning
An unloading
A sharing, a making of meaning
How is this like that?
How is a newspaper like a book?
How is a journal like television?
How is twitter like a newspaper?
How is a book like a journal?
How is a book like a cave painting?
How is a newspaper like a journal?
How is facebook like a book?
How is a book like a website?
How is a website like a book?
How is a book like a tweet?
How is television like a book?
How is a website like television?
How is television like a tweet?
For this project, I will review historical and contemporary methods of visual communication in a broad audit, and will investigate the repurposing of these methods of communication to serve new needs and tell new stories—as well as to inspire the development of new methods of visual communication to serve old needs and tell old stories, better.
I will communicate this information both in written form and as a visual display exploring and analyzing my research. I will also develop a new communicative repurposing of an old tool, and will insert it into the created framework of new and repurposed visual communications tools.
This research and analysis can take the form of pages, as in a book/e-book, which will introduce graphics as characters that will then come together in a comprehensive map/diagram. The completion of this diagram has the potential to reveal interesting information about which communications tools have lasting impact and efficacy, which tools will change, which tools will continue to take on new life.
Synopsis of discussion of my Project Brief on 2/22:
ReplyDelete-- Conversation about the layered uses of different forms of visual communication; exploring how these types/uses of visual communication are scalable or hierarchical (ex: moving on a scale from the personal/individual to the universal)
-- Considering scales of intimacy, immediacy, complexity and depth; how are different stories suited to different media (long-form vs. short-form as responses to a need for complexity or immediacy?); considering the size of the story and how that dictates different forms of media
-- Reviewing/exploring the history of stories—and in context of ideas above, how does storytelling change as a result of the appearance of new visual communication forms? i.e. How did the appearance of the newspaper… the printed book… Twitter… change the way in which we tell stories—and how we find our way to new ways of telling our stories? Also, thinking about Twitter—the individual tweets vs. the packaging of a series of tweets
-- How are different forms of visual communication fundamentally interwoven with each other, or independent of each other?
Considering speed as a function of different types of visual communications—i.e. Is a website a fast version of a book? Thinking about how advertising emerged utilizing language forms familiar from speech/conversation, and then transitioned to a brief, eye-catching grouping of a few words, for the sake of expediency/competition
-- Exploring the repurposing of an old tool—how to go about this. Explore examples such as the McSweeney’s publication of a “newspaper”; the Twitter-ized re-tellings of classic literature (Side question… could txt language be taking us back to a form of primal mark-making in communicating ideas and basic concepts? Or do txts, as short forms of existing language, just become integrated into longer-form language? i.e. I am lol-ing about this idea.)
-- Moving on to experimentation in repurposing a form of visual communication, and considering our class themes of “hybridization” and “classic”— what exactly will I explore in terms of hybridization, i.e. Am I focusing on the hybridization of technology? The hybridizing of forms?