Lao storyteller and eldest daughter of war refugees. Messy thinker and writer. A slingshot jumping on a trampoline misfiring everywhere.
I was, and am always looking for ways to make stories/data move differently. Working in English prose only made me feel like I was missing a big part of my own culture, and so I am looking for new ways to transmit neglected histories.
An example of a question I have, is about how book sales do not illustrate how far the stories within the book have traveled. How does a story get absorbed within a population, and how does it transmit from one group to another? What happens when these stories lose the original context? Etc.
I don’t really know how time would permit for this, but I am intensely curious about everyone’s field, and I would have liked to get more of a glimpse into it. I’ve really enjoyed seeing everyone’s homework, and that’s one of my favorite parts. Maybe everyone could have brought up one thing/trick/insight in their field they wanted to share? I’m not sure. I think time is always a factor.
I loved seeing how cellular automata so often became artistic or poetic, how the class was able to nimbly move from coding to practices. A lot of theories are not easily understood in its pure form, especially if like me you don’t have much experience in coding, so I appreciated being able to look at group projects like paper weaving. I think the question of interfaces is fascinating.
My best memory is when people shared their work. I really really love that, I know I say it a lot, but it’s hard to find these kinds of spaces sometimes, especially if you don’t have an org behind you.
My worst memory is missing a class and trying to sit through the recording. It’s hard! But I am glad it’s there. But it’s still hard for me to listen to 3 hours. I wonder if there could be a kind of summary?
Sometimes when people used names of programs? Acronyms, I think, of languages or coding programs. Sometimes that went a little fast for me, and I had to google on the sly quickly, but I don’t mind it so much, or maybe it’s not that I don’t mind. It’s that I am so used to retrieving the info that I need that I don’t realize I am doing it. But then I get lost a little, I admit.
I feel creative when I see in the lecture the many applications people have created from coding, the wide range of it. The many artists and programmers who are mentioned and makes me want to look for more in the wild.
Several! I have been in touch with classmates, and I have been inspired by many ideas that have been shared. I have been thinking a lot about interfaces, and whether they can ever be completely decontextualized, and what happens to a method that is used without context? Or is context always necessary, or at least desirable, in the formation of interfaces? Can this be tied somehow to ecosystems? I have more questions lol
Everyone. There was a multidisciplinary aspect that felt very nimble to everyone’s work. I’ve also taken up weaving after being inspired by all the textile work I’ve seen. I hope I can create something as beautiful as their work.