thesis project 4

last project of the semester. preview of preview show! lol

thesis project 3

here is the artist statement that i read during the crit today:

Our minds wander when we are not actively engaged in a task that requires our full concentration, which most often happens while traveling in between places and responsibilities—whether it be driving, biking, on the train, walking, or otherwise.  These routines have become like reflexes; we no longer have to give it our full attention. So, while the motor region of our brain is activated it is only running in the background thus leaving our conscious mind free to reflect.  We do so either introspectively (e.g., tasks to complete, questions we often wonder about, unresolved conflicts, etc.), in response to external stimuli, or both simultaneously. 

In today’s society, external stimuli not only consist of visual and audio samples derived from our physical environment, but also of the steady stream of communication we receive virtually.  Our phone has the capacity to check on current events around the world and deliver messages to and from people without us even seeing their faces.  More than we realize, many of our daily interactions take place largely in this virtual space we have built in our minds.

It was a veritable challenge to map and transpose the movements of my own mind so that they can be understood by an external audience.  While my stream of consciousness seems effortlessly fluid to myself, as a product of today’s ADD-like society, I know that it would appear broken and hard to follow as it jumps from tangent to tangent in response to non-sequitur external events and internal thoughts.