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gathering input and played the trading game thingie
so we traded pencil for a note card thingie. for a sandal. for a chinese small container thingie. for a bigger chinese engraving chinese thingie. and finally a whole day renting a bike from a very nice tjinghua student^^

The Amazing Mirror Maze of the Self

The artist Liwei’s solo exhibition in Caochangdi.

Our input was based on the structures of nature that we see around us. We want to make a metaphor of connection between people of non-intimate communication and explore the limitations of that. It could be seen how people are constraint and forced to move in a certain movement.
However, with this idea we have limitations [...]

So while we were wondering around the city yesterday, we came across with a bicycle shop! YES, an ACTUAL decent bicycle shop! It was somewhat near houhai. Eventhough we don’t see that kind of bicycles on the roads, they are actually selling “Helmets” and other safety products for bicycles. We didn’t check out the prices [...]

We all went our seperate ways today and by the end of the night, we met up and shared our ideas. It worked out pretty well because what we did was say what was on our mind and what interested us most. In order for this to succeed… we really need to incorporate an idea from each [...]

 
 
Invisible V.S. Visible 
Location: TU Cafeteria
Time: 6/2/2009 afternoon
Brainstorming the ideas with the TU students in our own language: English, Chinese, Korean.

Apparently I can’t keep consistency with blogging, so I have resorted to numerous posts that are clumped together. Oops.
These past 4 days or so have been rather involved, in both group work, relaxation, and anticipation. Much buildup had occurred up to Monday and the involvment of our presentations to the Tsinghua students(hello again) and where [...]

We received some interesting feedback from the faculty today such as: (revolving around the presentation of noise pollution)

how can we use the cellphones to contribute to this process?
layering it on an actual map so that noises actually overlap
realtime experience… exchanging the recording remotely
expand on parameters… what happens if you receive a different set of data?
what [...]

Mobile Context in China
David Carroll
kick off presentation
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Up late with my group making our first round of outputs. Mara was preparing to be our youth culture video celebrity.