人算不如天算
I was asked to make a blog for the NYU IMA Low Res graduate program. (I started with no tangible experience in interaction design.) Math is nature’s poetry, and these are just diary entries.
Alter-Instagram
Reel
I was asked to make a blog for the NYU IMA Low Res graduate program. (I started with no tangible experience in interaction design.) Math is nature’s poetry, and these are just diary entries.
Alter-Instagram
Reel
IMALR-GT-106-02
WHAT: IMALR-GT-106
They made this exercise immensely difficult, as it meant that I had to backtrack to the beginning of all time and ask: what is curiosity??? We could go with Mr. Webster’s definition: “a desire to know.” Or, we could go with what I personally have come to understand curiosity to be: the freedom to wander until you’re lost enough to realize that there is no such thing as being lost.
The Curiosity Syllabus
I’m not youthful enough to be on TikTok, but I am on Instagram. I’ve been using it to explore algorithms of interest for some time now, and for this program, I decided to separate my regular life account from my alter-shadow artist-y account, see
I wonder if the line between the two psyches will blur at some point... I hope they do.
Some Inspiration
The exercise was to find something that really resonated with me, but if I’m being completely honest, I’m not sure that I found quite that.
The first profile that stood out to me was Steve Roggenbuck’s on Rhizome. His body of work is the type to create polarizing opinions. I can’t decide if he’s “alt lit” or just the type of marketing genius that this generation of digital youth breeds. (He aims to “market the moon.”) Regardless, I dove deep into his videos and realized he dropped off the face of the HTML planet around 2017. Turns out he’s been accused of sending sexually explicit messages to underage girls. Hmm...
The second artist that stood out to me was Lisa Park, who had her installation Blooming featured on NEW INC. Biometric data has always been of interest to me, so this gently poked its head out at me. I like that she wasn’t using her own biometric data, but rather the data of the audience.
Artiphon was interesting, too.
But did anything really resonate with me to my core? Unsure. Maybe this type of work is another room to explore?
Sources:
Blooming - Lisa Park (NEW INC)
Steve Roggenbuck (Rhizome)
Artiphon (NEW INC)