Today we went to a discussion on the new Green Lantern series which includes two new POC characters. We discussed how men who complain about the change of
We met in the 360 room in the library today. It was interesting to see images taken from Google Maps shown all around us, especially because of Google Maps not considering Palestine a country. I also thought the layout of the roads was interesting, they aren't built like cities in the U.S., they're very curved and winding. It could make an interesting textile.
Walk Idea: a walk through the lens of a researcher learning about the occupation. Following the ways propaganda directs and navigates you through various topics and leads you to a situation where your vview point is tailored by those who want you to think a certain way.
If I could work out a program through RenPy which acts somewhat as a simulation of research and how people interact with data and information, I could track the ways people respond to that propaganda through how they interact with the program. Questions:
Today we were supposed to watch May Marei's video "The Girl Who is Living in The Martyred Guy's House 'The Bordom of Defeat.'" It was a beautiful piece and it was interesting how she spoke to the former person who lived in the house like a former partner. It reminded me of all the high school poetry I heard that used the pronoun "you" for the whole piece. I included a few screenshots below of moments I found particularly interesting/potent.
We also looked at the piece we created in response to a poster in the Palestine Poster Project. I chose this piece about Vietnam and Palestine because the poses they were in seemed like they could easily be manipulated into a poster about the deadly exchange. |
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