Arte y Tecnología

A lo largo de la historia el hombre siempre ha buscado la superación y constante mejora de su vida, aprovechando su conocimiento para lograr este fin. De esta misma forma sus capacidades técnicas le han dado a lo largo de los años  una forma de expresión empezando con las pinturas rupestres hasta las experiencias virtuales e inmersivas de hoy en día.

Así como la tecnología ha afectado y cambiado para siempre la forma de vida de los humanos, el arte es un reflejo de estos cambios, cambio en la forma de expresión así como el mensaje mismo que es transmitido.

D.S.

Screwed Up

I just realized my posts just got saved as drafts and were never published, that plus there are a couple of posts that can't be posted, including the one I wrote about STCU and that magic weekend at Mexico City, I'm sorry :(

24 Hour Challenge

Reducing Our Scope

After getting more involved with this process for finding solutions to problems, we were advised to reduce our scope to something we could actually change ourselves with our tools available right now, we needed to look no further than Centrales to find that the newer bicycles aside from providing free, less stressful, and quicker transport within our campus, they also caused traffic problems that before where non-existent. People that seldom rode bicycles now had the option to do it on a daily basis reducing the time to get from one hall to another also increased the traffic flow on bike lanes and this people that rarely rode a bike had a hard time trying to control a vehicle they hardly mastered through heavily crowded areas. This should be an easy problem to solve that would change a small part of many people's lives.

We will use Arduino, the open source microchip that we will be learning to use in the following weeks, lets hope our solution doesn't get out of hand and we succesfully install a device that will better traffic flow in the school's junctions with the heaviest transit. 

Imaginary Ropes, Real Tug-O-Wars

During this session we focused on what people feel of other people based only in their mannerisms, if without any other context one person where to imitate another just by the way they wait for an imaginary bus how would others be able to interpret their actions? Would they be able to convey who they wanted to personify to their spectators?

This where questions we got to answer ourselves in a seemingly easy dynamic.

I got to interpret a 15 year old boy waiting for the bus after school, rolling my own cigarettes while my bus arrives just like all the trendy european 15 year olds, refusing to grab a seat even though there are a couple of open seats left at the bus stop, I repeatedly got to stare at my imaginary cellphone's screen, shuffle around my imaginary backpack's contents and to grow desperate steadily faster even though the waiting time refused to diminish accordingly in proportion to my dispair.

It was easy to get into the character you wanted to interpret, but to make this feelings you've brought upon yourself by trying to see the world through this other person's eyes as evident to the viewer as they were to yourself is, in change, not such an easy task after all.

Self Portrait

This has been, as if yet, the most interesting session for me from this workshop. Rolando drove us in one of the School's vans (Even though I wanted to drive) to an art gallery near the city's center. There we were fronted with certain sounds and ideas that were supposed to show us what we looked like to ourselves outside the "canon", or the literal way of seeing things. This took me on a strange trip showing me my favorite things as I closed my eyes and thought of the things that I feel make my life beautiful. I was able to see myself and my life as a beautiful lapis blue E21 3-Series convertible from 1983 being driven by what seemed like to be an anthropomorphic heart with driving gloves and sunglasses, taking the car up and down winding roads on the countryside as the sun was setting, I could almost feel the fading warmth from the sun on my skin, the rapidly descending temperature hitting me with the wind's gusts of air and the soft tremor coming off from the BMW's little engine. 

I was about to take another literal meaning from what an "auto retrato" meant, and still stay out of cannon, I giggled a little.  

Sadly, my vision was barred from the physical world by my poor painting skills, summed with the project's requirement of only painting with out non-dominant hand. Still, it was a fun, eye opening experience that I enjoyed deeply and now I look forward to work on my masterpiece and show it at the end of the semester as expected. 

Creative Writing

During the second week we had a hand at creative writing, we were given different words that we had to include in our story which we wrote on short intervals, exchanging papers every five minutes or so. This made an interesting exercise, everyone has a different writing style, and the fact that everyone took a turn writing different stories kind of liberated us to write whatever nonsense we felt like, we weren't barred to a certain concept or genre, there was only a limit on time we were allowed to write, it was a writing race against time and the prejudices we had ourselves.