User:Martina/T6 Assessment

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Special issues and their relevance to the graduation project

Special Issue #25

⇔ Bureaucratic Review Committee (Press #1 for)

• Playing with and modifying a rotary phone to perform a different function helped remove the intimidation I felt around exploring hardware. I discovered the value of tinkering, taking devices apart and understanding how they work. This curiosity has remained a central part of my practice and became a key aspect of my graduation project. Looking back, I think that without this early introduction to basic circuitry, I would not have developed the confidence that eventually led me to create my low-tech radio wave receivers.

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Special Issue #26

⇔ Quilting p

Main reflection: imagining altered webpages as weaving patterns.

Connecting the structure of the web with textile pattern making led me to explore how physical practices, such as quilting, could be translated into digital environments (through the webring).

Using my previous practice in traditional mediums (textiles), I explored ways to translate them into the digital. This was the first project where I allowed myself to reintroduce earlier making methods into XPUB. The project marked the beginning of an exploration that I later describe in my graduation research as "the bending of the material"—finding different materials to print on in order to enhance the translation or merging of material worlds.

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Special Issue #27

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  The visit to the Telecom museum was extremely inspiring, especially looking at the massive cabling infrastructure they had set up in the basement. What also intrigued me was the chronology of the communication narrative and see it change in materiality (cabling methods, using paper, tin can methods, telcom services, telephones, mobile phones). Apart from my personal interest, seeing all of these devices and ways of telling the buildings history somehow inspired my own research (especially in the visual storytelling part of the thesis).

the development of your reading/writing practice across the 2 years

Include notes on:

• the process of writing the thesis, realising a new-found love for writing, feeling more comfortable talking introspectively about my work
• the first year was interesting, especially since i was introduced to a lot of new texts/things I was not at all familiar with

the development of your prototyping practice across the 2 years

Include notes on:

• The first year allowed me to explore many different techniques and mediums, those that stuck through were basic coding elements and sound making devices (mention the workshops about the sound board and the residency at BWDUA)