Two years ago, I started dabbling with street photography. It made me uncomfortable. I chose street photography specifically because it poses a certain challenge, at least in the way I wanted to do it. The constraint was that I had to avoid shooting on the fly, so no weird angles, random shots or accidental snaps. Just because I’m capturing moments doesn’t mean I have to end up with shots that look like my camera is falling down a staircase. I get dynamics but I didn’t want that to be an excuse for sloppiness.
This episode will outline the creative process behind producing a track called Teacher and making the video for it.
TRACK CONCEPT
I’m a big fan of Daft Punk’s track Teachers.
If you listen to it, you’ll realize it’s a shout out to every single producer that inspired them over the years — literally. I am also a big fan of Kavinsky, SebastiAn and Gessafelstein — French producers that are somewhere between industrial techno, synth wave and electro funk. I always wanted to make a track called Teacher but I spent a lot of time trying to do it just…
The term ‘data body’ is pretty literal. It’s a body made out of data. Data that was gathered out of your participation. Out of your own digital breadcrumbs, choices you made both online and in the real world that were in some way tracked and recorded. The practice itself is called ‘performativity in surveillance’ and is primarily concerned with the notion of perceiving people as objects of data through invasive looking. We are also inclined to search for patterns in that data hoping to discover what makes us the way we are. This inclination is called ‘apophenia’. …
At first, privacy was a very physical notion. The laws written to protect it were related to trespassing and freedom from restraint. However, with the realization of human beings as spiritual beings, their feelings and intellect became an entity that deserves its own rights, including the right to be left alone. It wasn’t long before the term “property” became applicable in both the tangible and intangible sense, which is why the rise of photography and newspapers was considered to be an obvious threat to private life. …
Abstract
This essay will examine the work of the Situationist International and how their practices, skills and goals could be applied in the 21st Century. It will examine today’s digital landscape within the contemporary society of the spectacle and numerous practices to counter the spectacle. An emphasis will be made on digital media and the way that media can be re-purposed in order to critique society, the consumerist culture, spark revolutions, change legislations, benefit society and provide people with a space where life could be lived again. …
