New Term, New Project

Well, it's nearly half way through the first week of term and i am just trying to get my head around ideas for the project briefs we have been set.

I will begin by thinking about my personal research project because i know this is something i am going to get quite easily excited about when i pinpoint exactly what i want to research.

My first ideas are based around my visit to ars electronica over the summer. it is a digital arts festival involving lots of competitions and art work all around the city of linz, austria. it was an amazing experience to see all the programmes that are being developed this year, and to interact with all the different entries was definatly an experience which inspired my ideas for this project. alot of the entries for the competitions were designed by people that didn't speak english, which is one thing i particularly noticed when playing on an interactive music table. this was an amazing experience as all the people that gathered around the table did not speak the same language, however, it seemed that everyone had the same ideas about making a song together. i was so surprizing to me that people managed to make a piece of music together without being able to actually speak a sentence to each other. this made me realise how increasingly dependent we are on the ability to use our other senses that we don't need to talk to each other.

At the moment this is the beginning speculations to my personal research project and i intend to research this area in more depth before i begin to write a specific title for my project.