How dose new-materialism influence our thinking about research and subjectivity? We’ve historically treated the world as separable– there are ontologies and epistemologies. New materialism is grounded in the idea that what we know and how we can know are constantly interaction. Parikka and Tianinen argue that the literally capitalizes in the new materiality share the … Continue reading
We are the memory collectors. We did a lot on trying to keep instant into infinite, the specific moment we record to make it into another artifact that we could preserve them from passing time. The prosthetic memory give us more possibilities of knowing and constructing our own memory which is a sharing of the … Continue reading
This week, we visited the Birmingham Museum and the Birmingham Bullring. Our task was to find 10-15 objects that are linked to our own object and to create a digital exhibition with a digital visitors guide here. As mine, I want to find something original, from nature, or being used as their natural beauty and … Continue reading
Main question: How do objects make us feel? Objects are ways be accompanied with feelings in memory. It is the symbol of a reminder which contains unique experience with ‘at the moment’ feelings of your senses that you could recall when you think about it, as a media. The most strongly emotions could be the … Continue reading
How can we understand the connection between the material and digital? Our life has become living with digital. We never left our phone, and keep staying online for almost 24 hours. For example, even if I am offline, when someone wechat me and I’ll immediately become online when I notice. In another words, we can’t … Continue reading
During this lecture, we focused on the word’ Matter’. Does everything matter? The material and immaterial? Within a subject-object relation, I think it’s “yes”. ‘Material culture implies that much of what we are exists not through our consciousness or body but as an exterior environment that habituates and prompts.’ (Miller 1987) In his opinion, material … Continue reading
In this week, I got to know our body in a unique way, thus we have our own materiality, to consider our body as a text, a physical object. Our body was treated as object when the time we came in this world, the materalization categories us into different gender, culture, region and tradition that … Continue reading
Why do we keep stuff? We seems like in an endless road of collecting objects ,and we organise them in an rational way. Then, we are in the archive fever! We are living in a big archive, both human and objects around us. ‘Its a place where documents and other materials of public or historical … Continue reading
When I empty my bag and put them in order, I finally realized what kind of person am I from my objects I took with. It’s like an invisible mirror I’ve never noticed before. The contents in my bag changes sometimes, but there are still something stay with me all the time even I change … Continue reading
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