So far, I’ve really been loving the idea of creating a project that uses audience participation and a cathartic experience which could be recreated again in the future. We will be focusing on the anxiety and fears related to pressure to perform after college, the “future tripping” which we’ve discussed before. Somehow allowing a physical … More Future Tripping Project
Manifesto: In her manifesto, VJ Um Amel, describes her work as reappropriating emerging technologies, both in their theoretical and technical manifestations; this means re-articulating the ways technology is used and how it is conceptualized. By re-imagining the differing and disparate data of Twitter into a “virtual imagination,” VJ Um Amel reveals a “community-author,” effectively remixing … More VJ Um Amel, Social Media, and Semantics
Zimmerman’s article asks questions about objects of creation in regards to their needs and pleasures and the way their designed. Relaying this piece to a specific artifact that resonates with us to articulate its own design and need within the world. At first, it took me a while to figure out the object I wanted … More Moonstone as Universal Healing
VJ Um Amal is, of course, no stranger to anybody on this site. However, her work is nonetheless full of interesting new directions. Her exploration of social media data and artistic representation thereof taps fascinatingly into the current cultural flow, exploring flows of digital information and utilizing such platforms to reasses and reconstruct meaning detached … More Exploring the Flow of Data Bodies
VJ Um Amel is the screen name for Professor Laila Shereen Sakr who has a background in media and social uprising. Using social media for activism is a contemporary phenomenon that not many people are studying. In an article from USC’s Andrew Good, VJ Um Amel, who was a doctoral student at the university, noted that … More VJ Um Amel: Digital Activism, Remix, & Revolution
The first article I read was a piece on Vice’s website called “VJ Um Amel Remixes a Revolution” by Dylan Schenker. The article focuses on VJ Um Amel’s body of work that covered the revolution that occurred in Egypt in 2011. In the article it describes how hashtagged Twitter conversations were collected by the Twitter … More VJ Um Amel: Remixed Visualizations
ABSTRACT: Our project should blends the lines between audience and performance. It will require an openness to hearing views and experiences that aren’t your own. This project should produce empathy, through revealing connectivity, for those that take part. The space should emit hope, revealing that the future can hold more then the past, that preconceived … More Project Abstract
Under the umbrella of remix cultures and new media digitalization, VJ Um Amel is a force to be reckoned with in social activism. Take a peek at the Manifesto on the VJ Um Amel website: http://vjumamel.com/about/ Readers can better understand the goals and accomplishments of VJ Um Amel; in fact, her credentials are rooted deep … More VJ Um Amel: A Force in the Digital Realm
In seminar we discussed how society uses our fears and how we (as a society and as individuals) deal with waste/trash. This brought up some interesting ideas for our final project. We talked about commercializing fear and how our society can capitalize on things like pepper spray and anxiety. This relates to “future tripping” which deals … More Abstract: Collaborative Art
The Barbie Doll is a toy fashion doll that was made by the company Mattell in 1959, and which has played a major role in the lives of many people throughout the world for a long period in history. It was created by a woman named Ruth Handler, and was inspired by a German doll … More The Barbie Doll
