Today, the practice documented in the previous entry was presented to the group, alongside with the Elaborate project from Spring Term. Here are some feedbacks: the process of generating the 100 screenshots was a simple and straight-forward computer command, and the decision making towards further iterations could do with more active engagement / original input, in other words I myself shall be involved more.
There are a number of questions to ask myself:
- Why do I settle on this particular image (besides it first stood out to me amongst others in the archive folder)? Does it embody anything unique? And how could I decide my next step considering these unique properties of this image?
- Why is this entire collection of materials important? How can such importance influence my decision making for future iterations?
- How can I interrogate the subject of these images and footages through iterations (i.e. an idealised pure nature)?
- How to make sure everything is lightfooted and agile?
I thus try to incorporate more self-involvement in the next step of the 100 screenshot exercise. Here are some potential actions to take: start the screenshot process over but this time with a changing, evaluation dimension, instead of a set dimension close to the original image; recreating the scene using components offered by a different location (this method has the risk of being not agile or lightfooted); curating different images together from the collection of images and footages; editing the footage with soundtracks.