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Waikit Kan

'Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity and gives it and idea of which it was not before possessed'

The Digital Stroll

After having read all the quotes, I have decided to base my exam project on Joseph Addison's quote. My decision for choosing this quote is because I find it more open to different ideas than the others, based on my first thoughts. To sum the quote up in a couple of words, I would have to say the quote defines a new experience.

For my exam project, my idea is to create an animated video. The idea I will be using is taken from Sherry Turkles book 'Life On The Screen'. She quotes:

"The computer offers us both new models of mind and a new medium on which to project our ideas and fantasies." (Turkle, 1995, p.9)

My idea is that, in the reality we are limited to experiencing whatever exists in this world. The computer takes that limit away. It has offered us perpetual amounts of new experiences, all from the imagination.

To put this idea into work, the video will start of with a green screened person walking along some urban scenery. The person enjoys the urban scenery until it repeats, then grows tired of it and he starts to ignore the scenery. He carries on walking and passes through a portal. The urban scenery starts to digitise, the person and the scenery turns into graphics. He carries on walking through the urban scenery and piece by piece the scenery changes into the countryside. He takes notice of this new scenery and again piece by piece, the scenery starts to change into the sea. He walks on the sea and various objects go past. The sea drains and he starts to fall endlessly passing objects in the sky. He then lands on sand and walks along the desert. He passes unusual objects in the desert before the scenery slowly changes back into the urban scenery piece by piece. He walks along the urban scenery and passes through a portal and the graphics change back into real life. SLIGHTLY EXTENDED!!!!!

The concept is playing with the imagination in the digital world, the guy will walk across a variety of places each of which will become more weird. It will show that the digital world offers experiences that cannot be obtained in real life.


Bibliography:

TURKLE S, 1995. Life on the screen: identity in the age of the internet. New York NY: TOUCHSTONE.