The parts that make up my installation relating to my Thesis Proposal, are as follows: CRT Monitor - This is an “older” style computer monitor. Although old in technology terms is circa 2003, a year in which the monitor I’m using (A phillips 107×4 CRT) won a design and innovation award. The monitor represents consumerism, and [...]

As Walt Disney might say I’ve had to re-imagineer the process. I heard a story about a young man who wanted to work for Walt and be an imagineer, but ended up as a professor. In some ways it seemed as though his dreams were fulfilled. Dreams and fulfillment - after all, isn’t that what [...]

I have been pretty busy this last week working offline, and collecting my thoughts and work into a format that can be presented. Theory In the absence of a concrete direction, I have been developing my theory and building a new platform to go forward from. This has involved looking more specifically at Social Theory and defining [...]

Thesis proposal: In the age of the knowledge economy we are thrust into a time in history that no known civilisation before has encountered. Our institutional knowledge as a species grows and is documented everyday via the world wide web. Our ability to classify and store information is increasing, and because of the sheer amount of [...]

There’s an interesting article about the demand for stock images and trends associated with those demands. In summary it is essentially talkign about stock images and the type of images people demand, which display trends in media and society. In many ways the stock imagists are forecasters trying to predict what the next big thing [...]