Not everything goes to plan

I’m not going to sugar-coat it… the progress of my DA has been vastly different to what I originally planned. Things did not go to plan: content was hard to create, development seemed to plateau, and motivation was low. In short, it was a bit of a disaster… As discussed in previous blog posts, various […]

Prototyping

South Coast Gyotaku has come a long way since it’s foundation in early 2019. After starting this DA in BCM112 last semester I continued with my Instagram page: southcoast_gyotaku for BCM114 As addressed in previous blog posts the journey over this semester hasn’t been as smooth as I would have liked. Factors out of my […]

BCM114 Beta

Having already created my digital artefact last semester in BCM112 I focused largely around growing my reach and audience within BCM114. I focused my digital artefact page around the art of gyotaku, which is a traditional style of Japanese fish printing. This artform is a highly sustainable way of recording/remembering a catch as the fish […]

DA Development

Having already started developing my DA last semester in BCM112 I continued to grow my Instagram page for BCM114. My page is focused around the Japanese art of Gyotaku: fish printing. The start of this semester has gotten off to a rocky start in regards to my DA. A major focus of my page is […]

BCM114 Pitch

My BCM114 DA Pitch; following on from my BCM112 Digital Artefact. Concept: My BCM114 Digital Artefact will follow on from my BCM112 DA. I intend on maintaining my Instragram page focused around the art of Gyotaku – soutcoast_gyotaku. Gyotaku is a traditional Japanese artform whereby rice paper is pressed onto a fish covered in ink. […]

Privacy, Surveillance, and the Price of Content

Social media is an extremely integrated aspect of modern life. Nearly all of us will have a smart phone with social media applications on them. While we use these apps throughout the day we sometimes forget (or never realised in the first place) that these apps are constantly collecting data and information about us. This […]

Hardware Platforms, Access Permissions and Ideologies of Control

Content/software on the internet can either be of open or closed sourced nature. But what is the difference between these? Open sourced software is publicly available to anyone to copy, edit, modify and share. The software code is open to everyone to edit. Closed sourced software, on the other hand, is the complete opposite. The […]

Intellectual Property and the Content Control Industry

It’s legal to copy…right? Copyright, a term almost everyone has heard. This term refers to a form of intellectual protection which aims at protecting ones original work. The open-looped nature of the internet means every thing is accessible to everyone. Content can be downloaded, copied and shared with ease. This makes content control very difficult […]

DA Beta

I originally decided to create an Instagram page aimed at educating people about the benefits of spearfishing, highlighting its selective and sustainable nature. I intended to post various videos and photos to this page to assist me with my vision; targeting people who didn’t yet spearfish. However, during the first few weeks of this idea […]

Hyperreality, simulation, spectacle

The world we live in today is drenched in technology and online interactions. Everywhere we look we are presented with content and stimuli. As such, hyperreality is becoming an ever more prominent aspect of life. Hyperreality refers to the inability to distinguish between reality and a simulation of reality. Real life and simulation are blended […]