____Portable Home

I feel like there is a white canvas staring me in the face. I remember this feeling from years ago in my painting classes. I would have meticulously made a non-standard frame, stretched the canvas over it and prepared the surface… then I would stare at it afraid to make the first mark.

I don’t know if that fright is learned from others explaining the situation and the popular term or actually something I am experiencing. Have I self-imposed this white canvas or am I really stuck?

In this case my canvas is a reflective document which will lead into the final write up of my PhD research. A piece of work which has scattered my brain, body and creativity all over the place; all over the internet.

Nodes, are the way I can visualize the research outcome, based on tags of the significant words which explain the main points of the work. And, so I can see the project in my mind and on the screen as an interactive node-based visualization which demonstrates an extended field of vision brought about through technology mediated experiences within the digitally networked domain. I can see how the document ties artists working with new media and multiple areas of theory inform and foretell this shift. I can see how we need to look beyond the confines of the standard screen window as an access point for information. But, my head is overflowing with information and I really have no idea where to start.

I have again in front of me a non-standard frame. It’s a practice-based PhD and the work is art. How do I make it all happen, it all pour out of my head, and how do I draw it all together when it is all scattered everywhere? My online tools where I have recorded all my research as I progressed through it, this blog, twitter, delicious are all separate and still very linear based. It’s the visual web I have before me that is daunting, it reflects the complexity of the internet, because it is housed there, because it is about the internet.

Documented self-portrait within the Digital Domain
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in this video i am thinking about synchronicity and how different actions leave different fingerprints or markers. when ants communicate they lease chemical markers along the trail for themselves and any other ant that might go by. not unlike some kid with a marker in the city.

actual timelapse failed. but here is another timelapse from previous day: http://vimeo.com/5228444

0:22 I took a photo. the photo is here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sixmilli…

0:40-1:07 I sent a tweet. The tweet is archived on friendfeed here: http://friendfeed.com/danpaluska/9799…

My public google latitude feed is here:
http://www.google.com/latitude/apps/b…

And you can see my current location on my website: http://plainfront.com “

cultural probe

Originally uploaded by meganleigh

The new iphone has the capacity to encourage clustered activity within the digital domain. This will be reflected in the boost of new users on social networking sites, mobs descending on new applications, and in collaborative and collective ways that are still not imagined. By working with Google, incorporating GPS, and using the touch screen, among other features new methods for learning, locating, experiencing and accessing information will develop. In the rapidly expanding services available to internet users the use of Google on the iphone enables users to tap into to an established network.

I will be using this device over the next 18 months as a cultural probe, to gather information about people and their activities in relation to the definition of ‘one’s space’. I will monitor and track my movements using GPS and I will maintain a blog that describes my location, my emotions, and my discoveries. It will be a self-report of the experience of embodying the domain that is limitless, but encountered intimately in my hand.