Transhumanism & Bodies as Computers

Currents | Week 9 | Kevin Cadena

Weekly Description

Over the weeks, we've moved from Computer to Software to Internet, looking at how they impact human expression, creative and identity. This final week will focus on how viewing the body as a computer can change our perspective on the technologies that impact it.

Agenda

Presentation

 Presentation Link
30 minutes

Station-Hopping

As opposed to previous weeks where we're all working through the same content together, this week students will be broken up into three groups of 4. Each group will start at a specific station and every 40 minutes will cycle to a new station.

Please review the different station and their instructions below! We will call for a break after the second cycle has been complete.

Station One: Small Group Review

  1. We'll be reviewing your Networked Identity Project in small groups
  2. We'll have 10 minutes per Student to go through the state of the project
  3. Some things to go over include:
    • Research You've Done
    • Assets You've Build
    • Live Sketch You'd Put Togehter
    • What's Left to Add To It?
    • What do you want us to provide feedback on?
    • What aspects are you still unsure about?
  4. After we've spoken on your work, please join our Glitch Team and add your in-draft project to the Week 8 Playlist
40 minutes

Station Two: Open Lab Working Session

This is open lab session that should be used towards one of the following:

  1. Working on Your Networked Identity Project
    • Either prepping it for review or incporporating feedback from the small group review session.
    • This includes bulding any assets, watching any tutorials, or anything else you might need to do.
  2. Setting up Your 'Tech Fair Display Board'
    • Use the following template
      • to set it up or feel free to make your own if you want to showcase your research in a different way!
40 minutes

Station Three: Corporeal Iterations (Me as a...)
Watch Together

Watch Ghost In The Shell: Identity in Space by NerdWriter1

10 minutes
Do Individually
  1. Create An Iteration of Yourself As Something Beyond Your Corporeal Form.
    • A good way to phrase this is Me as.. (a city, an 8-bit track, as a plant, as a constellation, etc)
    • One note is that this should not be a track you like, it should be a translation of who you are into a new form.
    • How do your personality traits, who you are, etc. translate into the medium of your choosing?
  2. Look at the Tiny Tools Directory if you need software to try this out.
    • No use of large-scale software is permitted!
15 minutes
Do Together
  1. Create a non-corporeal form that allows your group to work together on one collective identity.
    • Again this is not an extension of yourselves, this is yourselves
15 minutes
Submission
  1. Submit via CANVAS

Homework

Finish Do

My Networked Identity

Week Two
  1. Incorporate the feedback from our small group reviews and finalize your Networked Identity Project
  2. If you need to review the prompt for the project, find it here.
  3. Please feel free to reach out if you need any further direction, help, or anything else! Happy to make myself available to realizing your vision!
Submission
  1. Post to CANVAS and add to our W09 Homework Playlist on our Glitch Team!

Tech Fair Display Screen Set Up

  1. Duplicate the following Glitch Project.
  2. Add Your Research
    • You can populate each section as needed.
    • Include all relevant material
  3. Customize!
    • Feel free to change the colors, fonts, and other things of each section to make it feel like your own!
Submission
  1. Add to CANVAS and to the Glitch Team Playlist
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