Dissertation

So having a talk with belinda she thinks it would be interesting to go back to my first idea of looking at social acceptance in art.

This would be quite a personal thing for me as its haunted me through most aspects of my life, especially in the art world. I feel looking into the sociology of this and doing this could benefit me and be interesting to see how my art grows from it.

Belinda then pointed out the 2 key words i mentioned  which were, shock value and interaction which she thinks could be good to play around with and create good work from.

Im not so convinced with myself with what i could create for this other than stuff that is interesting to me but not necessary from a job point of view from an employer. This is due to maybe they think thats all im for which its not ( In the sense of shock value). As much as im interested and like that idea of things it may not be best.

What i could do is look at the sock of good vs bad art work. what do people socially accept to be good or bad? could be a good interactive experiment.

So looking at Transmedia iv created a pros and cons list.

I feel strongly about this as i feel its such a huge topic i can do lots with it, But this could be a bad thing as i may get carried away.

The main thing that sticks out for me is coming up with a good narrative to start this on and worried this process may take too long for me to have a good outcome.

Back to the start.

So i wanted to take a step back and look at me again as i felt i was getting stuck/no where obvious with my ideas.

So i looked at what i want out of this and things that interests me.

Words i came up with for mixing up the two main ideas im thinking on doing.

Social acceptance through Transmedia.

Iv created a buzz word list of things i think my dissertation should include/be baised on/behind.

So here are my ideas so far:
With thoughts on what i like,
What i want to do/be known for when i finish.
Things i think im good at/ think i could do something cool with.


Not really sure what i should go for.

I then came up with the idea of does my actual Dissertation itself have to be just a booklet at the end of it?
Could i make it into a Transmedia project itself.

Dissertation

Ideas, 

Things that keep occurring for me is social acceptance, as iv always been to scared to show my ideas/art there for i stop making art. Its a harsh circle im getting out of but its interesting to me to see what people think is socially accepting in the art world.

Next i feel that Transmedia would be good as there's so much i can do and show that im able to do with it. I love the thought of people interacting with art as i feel in this day and age its what can make the difference and change the idea/feeling behind something.

Overall im more worried about the end result. 

What do i want to show the world?

Week 4
This is my interpretation of the scarfs with watercolours and pencil.

Week 4, student set up of scarfs.

Personally this isnt something im interested in drawing as i was made to do this non stop in school.
I feel they could of been a bit more creative.

The final set up!

So just getting the area for the tree set up.

The idea is to come along 2 max at a time, in a dark low light quite space to help create the atmosphere i wanted.

The Tree Of Life
Getting the labels and pens set up for people.
The idea is for people to write down there thoughts/ideas behind the question:
"What does life mean to you?"

Week 2, Outcome

This was my interpretation on the tree. I used pencil, watercolour and pen.

Week 2

Week 2 our space was created by Belinda. 

This is where we get to get creative on a different subject matter each week.

Stage 6, Spray paint

I had alot of fun spraying the tree white, with help from another student with experience in spray painting.  It saved alot of time compared to if i hand painted it, But never realised how much it would use to cover it all.

Stage 5, Standing on its own

The tree manages to stand on its own, but sadly some arms couldn't stay up with the weight and support, The tree top also curled and sunk down.

Stage 4, Getting the arms up

This was very hard as with the papermache they were very weighted and needed something to keep them up.

Stage 3, Getting the top/arms to stay up

Stage 2, Middle section stabilising

Stage 1, Creating the foundation

Curate The Campus

So I took part of curate the campus and im really happy with the outcome. I feel it took alot more time than i thought as i was non stop with creating it and getting things ready for 3 weeks straight. Im proud of myself taking part in something i never thought i would be able to do due to my struggle with social acceptance and being scared to show people my work or share my ideas.

It was a long an tiring process, but i cant wait to see the outcome on October 10th, more photos to follow.

May be something to look at/include.

Impressionism

Marvel Transmedia

By Armen Gevorkian 335464 Marvel Publishing Inc. Is one of few publishing companies specialized in comics that has inflicted a huge impact on the world by creating characters such as ‘Iron-Man’

The implementation of Transmedia Storytelling by Marvel Comics

Social acceptance:

Social acceptance is the fact that most people, in order to fit in with the others, look and act like them. It stops (mostly) everyone from truly being themselves. It’s is also the reason most people look painfully average. See conformist.

Social acceptance destroyed the world.

urbandictionary

Given the widespread popularity of social media, such as Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and LinkedIn, theorizing and understanding the user attitude and usage behavior of social media site is fundamental in developing future understandings and deployment of these new technologies. One approach to such studies on drivers of social media usage behavior would be to revisit the technology acceptance model (TAM). The purpose of this paper is to discuss these issues.

Technology acceptance model

Here is an interesting Journal about social acceptance which brushes on social media.

In an annual information technology forecast released at the start of December, analysts with Stamford-based Garter predicted the super-heated investment market for consumer social media will cool within just two years - despite social media still representing an immature market today with businesses very much in an experimental phase.

Social Acceptance?

Here is a link to a transmedia dissertation that i find rather interesting to read. Here he talks about transmedia and its change to peoples interaction.

This could be good to look back over to see if it could back up some of my ideas. 

Producing Transmedia Stories

 My work :

What ideas do i have for 4th year?

Currently when I think about 4th year and my dissertation I keep getting brought back to what I did in 3rd year for creative research. I was using different media types and techniques while trying to overcome my own social acceptance with my art work.

I kept battling with myself with the use of watercolours and Photoshop to come up with interesting designs but also starting to build up on my own style which I never really got fine tuned.

I also think due to the use of mass media and the enjoyment I had for transmedia I feel it should play a role in my 4th year project.

Due to being part of curate the campus with my transmedia “Tree of Life” Interactive instillation I feel it will be a good starting point for things to inspire me for the year to come. Also bringing in the transmedia feel again to my work. 

At the moment I feel im leaning toward the idea of Transmeda and Social acceptance as I feel both play such a big role in my life since being at university. But also bringing my own style into it.