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Felix at 14:05, 10 April 2019

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	Currently (and forever) this is a rough overview on the variety on thematics I am interested in and more/less working on.		Currently (and forever) this is a rough overview on the variety on thematics I am interested in and more/less working on.

			==Thoughts on The total information surround==

			Parallel to the Democratic Surround created by American sociologists and artists during WWII and described in Fred Turner’s “The democratic surround”, a medial surround is communicating reality until today. Today’s medial surround is highly shaped by digital/ Internet technologies whose roots were established in early cybernetics, further developed through the 1960’s American counter cultures ambitions and lately enforced through the immense commercialisation in the years of 2000s and 2010s. This media surround can be described as an Apparatus (after Flusser).

			The Democratic Surround

			The term describes a way through which the minds of Americans should be prepared to be willing to face (and go to) the war for the United States and fight against German nationalism. At the same time the use of (mass) media for propaganda by the Germans was feared, as it made the citizens follow their “Führer” dumbly, without questioning and created an unreflected, narrow minded crowd of people. In America, a way to teach people to make up their own (democratic) minds through reading images was intended to be developed to achieve a democratic mindset as well as the people’s own wish to fight against the autocratic system of Nazi Germany (and in consequence every other non-Democratic system).


			(Left: Herbert Bayer, Diagram of 360° field of vision)
			(Mid: Model of Road to victory exhibition, MoMA NYC, 1942)
			(Right: Buckminster Fuller Pavillion for USA at Kabul, 1956)

			For that being possible individual spectators should choose what to look at from a surround of multiple images. As proposed in Herbert Bayer’s Diagram of 360° field of vision and realised in the Road to victory Exhibition 1942 at MoMA New York.

			The total surround

			Similarly, in today’s media we surround ourselves with images. This is technically optimised in Internet formats like social media platforms that display images or other pieces of content becoming fragments of the world and how it is perceived. It is acknowledged that with the rise of these platforms a majority of people’s perception is mediated through immersion with this internet surround. But still, all kinds of “traditional” media act the same way for a longer time and still co-exist to the Internet technologies. Furthermore, many of the “traditional” media are becoming more and more part of the Internet surround, because of either a technological link between both or the echo of the new media on the traditional one.

			“The internet” is spreading to the physical, “non-Internet” world. Whereas initially the internet formed an autonomous medium providing the distribution of information and communication, the commercialisation of the medium is causing that first, the physical world is increasingly represented in the information and communication that are taking place in the internet, and second, an increasing number of functions are provided through the internet and implemented in the physical world and with that the schematics of the internet are brought to the physical world and are implemented there and replace established processes of society/politics/media/etc. This results in a total surround of mediated images.

			The apparatus

			Although the Internet surround, or even more the total surround I propose, has aspects of a perfected, idealised, because completed Democratic surround in it, it seems as this kind of surround cannot at all be Democratic. The internet surround and consequently the total surround are an apparatus that’s technology is in power over the people, that play with the apparatuses programme. The prgrammes are the four following: 1) Active Democratic Programme, 2) Attention Programme, 3) Reach Programme, 4) Authoritarian Programme. Where the first and contrasts the other three.

			The active democratic programme, describes the assumption and limited fact, that the Internet is a medium in which everyone can take part, i.e. distribute information, communicate, have access to information. The rise of content-creation consumer-products, such as cameras, video cameras, accessible and powerful computers, prove this. The creation of personal content is even more and more professionalised. The first important issue is in this programme’s definition already: It pretends to be, but is proven to be widely false by the other programmes.

			The attention programme describes the nature of a piece of information (no matter what form it has, e.g. image, text, sound), relying on the attention of the recipient. Only what get’s a minimum amount of attention is seen at all in a surround of information. What attracts more attention is by the same amount affecting the mind of the recipient more. This is where Design is needed to optimise information to succeed in the attention economy. Depending on the form of the information, Design is either improving it visually, verbally, acoustically, meaningly, spatially, in any other artistic form or in multiple of them at once. In the information surround this contradicts with the equal depiction of images (information), because a concurrence aver the attention drives the eye of the recipient.

			The reach programme describes the market behind the underlying commercial system. Reach is divided in qualitative reach and quantitative reach. Both of them are related to money. The qualitative is linked to the technical advantages a distribution channel has access to. It is what commonly is described as targeting. The idea behind this is that a universal surround is disrupted and indeed individualised surrounds aiming to provide an individual with information specially “designed” to attract the individual. So, to improve the attention programme by channeling reach. The quantitative is more directly linked to money, as the distribution of information is a business model, money exchanges in the amount of reached individuals.

			The authoritarian programme describes several factors that are not (without force, that can be money, also) to overcome when the information surround is artificially narrowed/limited. This can be access: Contrary to the active democratic programme, in fact access to information is exclusive, i.e. needs to be payed, needs to be under a contract etc. This can also be political regulations, or even political censorship.



	== Subject (Draft) ==		== Subject (Draft) ==

Felix: /* Readinglist */

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Readinglist

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	* [http://networkcultures.org/geert/2019/01/20/sad-by-design-the-essay/?pdf=1694 Sad by design, Geert Lovink]		* [http://networkcultures.org/geert/2019/01/20/sad-by-design-the-essay/?pdf=1694 Sad by design, Geert Lovink]
	* [http://networkcultures.org/longform/2018/12/18/brave-new-screens-soma-fomo-and-friendly-fascism-after-1984/ Brave New Screens]		* [http://networkcultures.org/longform/2018/12/18/brave-new-screens-soma-fomo-and-friendly-fascism-after-1984/ Brave New Screens]
			* [http://networkcultures.org/longform/2018/02/22/fictiocracy-media-and-politics-in-the-age-of-storytelling/ Fictocracy: Media and Politics in the Age of Storytelling]

	== Notes on Quotes & related ==		== Notes on Quotes & related ==

Felix: /* Readinglist */

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	* [https://www.zeit.de/2001/29/Wozu_Worte_wenn_man_Bilder_hat Text on FischliWeiss Visible World (DE)]		* [https://www.zeit.de/2001/29/Wozu_Worte_wenn_man_Bilder_hat Text on FischliWeiss Visible World (DE)]
	* [http://networkcultures.org/geert/2019/01/20/sad-by-design-the-essay/?pdf=1694 Sad by design, Geert Lovink]		* [http://networkcultures.org/geert/2019/01/20/sad-by-design-the-essay/?pdf=1694 Sad by design, Geert Lovink]
			* [http://networkcultures.org/longform/2018/12/18/brave-new-screens-soma-fomo-and-friendly-fascism-after-1984/ Brave New Screens]

	== Notes on Quotes & related ==		== Notes on Quotes & related ==

Felix: /* Readinglist */

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	* [http://fredturner.stanford.edu/books/the-democratic-surround/ The Democratic Surround, Turner, Fred]		* [http://fredturner.stanford.edu/books/the-democratic-surround/ The Democratic Surround, Turner, Fred]
	* [https://www.zeit.de/2001/29/Wozu_Worte_wenn_man_Bilder_hat Text on FischliWeiss Visible World (DE)]		* [https://www.zeit.de/2001/29/Wozu_Worte_wenn_man_Bilder_hat Text on FischliWeiss Visible World (DE)]
	* ~~On sadness:~~ [http://networkcultures.org/geert/2019/01/20/sad-by-design-the-essay/?pdf=1694]		* [http://networkcultures.org/geert/2019/01/20/sad-by-design-the-essay/?pdf=1694 Sad by design, Geert Lovink]

	== Notes on Quotes & related ==		== Notes on Quotes & related ==

Felix: /* Readinglist */

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	* [http://fredturner.stanford.edu/books/the-democratic-surround/ The Democratic Surround, Turner, Fred]		* [http://fredturner.stanford.edu/books/the-democratic-surround/ The Democratic Surround, Turner, Fred]
	* [https://www.zeit.de/2001/29/Wozu_Worte_wenn_man_Bilder_hat Text on FischliWeiss Visible World (DE)]		* [https://www.zeit.de/2001/29/Wozu_Worte_wenn_man_Bilder_hat Text on FischliWeiss Visible World (DE)]
			* On sadness: [http://networkcultures.org/geert/2019/01/20/sad-by-design-the-essay/?pdf=1694]

	== Notes on Quotes & related ==		== Notes on Quotes & related ==

Felix: /* Readinglist */

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	== Readinglist ==		== Readinglist ==
	* [https://hogeschoolrotterdam.on.worldcat.org/oclc/929890426 Simulacra and simulation, Baudrillard]		* [https://hogeschoolrotterdam.on.worldcat.org/oclc/929890426 Simulacra and simulation, Baudrillard]
			* Travels in Hyperreality, Umberto Eco
			* Art and Illusion, E.H. Gombrich
			* The Return of the Real, Hal Foster
			* Ideas and Images in World Art, Rene Huyghe, p.68 ...
	* [http://web.b.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.hro.nl/ehost/ebookviewer/ebook/bmxlYmtfXzgxMTI4X19BTg2?sid=b29714dc-9fb5-4077-a7ab-218d8f138d52@pdc-v-sessmgr02&vid=0&format=EB&rid=1 Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion, Grau, Oliver]		* [http://web.b.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.hro.nl/ehost/ebookviewer/ebook/bmxlYmtfXzgxMTI4X19BTg2?sid=b29714dc-9fb5-4077-a7ab-218d8f138d52@pdc-v-sessmgr02&vid=0&format=EB&rid=1 Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion, Grau, Oliver]
	* [http://fredturner.stanford.edu/books/the-democratic-surround/ The Democratic Surround, Turner, Fred]		* [http://fredturner.stanford.edu/books/the-democratic-surround/ The Democratic Surround, Turner, Fred]

Felix at 15:48, 5 December 2018

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			==Tutorials==

			[[Felix/Research/Steves Tutorial\|With Steve]]


	== Readinglist ==		== Readinglist ==

Felix: /* What are you photographing? (Steve's question) */

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What are you photographing? (Steve's question)

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	===What are you photographing? (Steve's question)===		===What are you photographing? (Steve's question)===

	I am collecting appearances the world that I am living in (needs to be specified). For that I am making photographs of people in commercial photography (advertising) and real estate renderings found in public space as well as the public space itself by involving architectural spaces and commercial design impacts in public space.		I am collecting appearances of the world that I am living in (needs to be specified). For that I am making photographs of people in commercial photography (advertising) and real estate renderings found in public space as well as the public space itself by involving architectural spaces and commercial design impacts in public space.

	The loose categories of imagery that I am creating are:		The loose categories of imagery that I am creating are:

Felix: /* Pi Cameras */

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Pi Cameras

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	=== Pi Cameras ===		=== Pi Cameras ===
			I just got the JeVois Camera and want to try it out over christmas.

	* [http://jevois.org Smart Vision Camera by JeVois]		* [http://jevois.org Smart Vision Camera by JeVois]

Felix: /* 360° VR */

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360° VR

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	=== 360° VR ===		=== 360° VR ===
			I tried it with the Samsung Gear 360VR from the school's rental and was disappointed. I am not sure about my personal use of this technology, but want to further think about it. What comes with it is definitely the way to frame an image changes since the creator is not technically in control of where the user will look. But still artistically there are ways to lead the viewers viewpoint.

	=== (Stereo) 3D photography ===		=== (Stereo) 3D photography ===

	* [http://stereo.jpn.org/eng/stphmkr/ Universal Stereo Photo Maker Software]		* [http://stereo.jpn.org/eng/stphmkr/ Universal Stereo Photo Maker Software]