Pass 4- Ideas

23Jul07

 

    To take my project to the next step of interactivity, I want to use place and objects to add to the story. I used a box that is shaped like a book and hollow inside. I used that object to put my project in. I sectioned up the story into the vignettes and burned them to CD’s. Each CD has a different image on it. I made pages out of the CD’s and put them in the book box. I have hidden the box in the library, but the book is placed so that it is camouflaged to look like a real library book. There will be an opportunity for people to find this object, watch it, and return it to the shelf for others to find. I felt it was important to the narrative to have the reader in a library and interacting with the space of the library. I considered many ways to get them there, but this positioning allows the reader to do what the character does in the story.  There will be real life interaction with the tactile object of the book. The materiality of the book and the detail of it became very important in the making of it.

The poetry of a hollow book filled with CD’s is very important to the idea of “Nostalgia.” I hope people see the irony of mixing books and CD’s and finding it hidden in a library. I actually doubt it will be found for a long time. I left my website of this class in it so people may contact me to find out about it, but otherwise I do not have my name on it. I really want to emphasize the act of looking for a book and the materiality of the book. I have used the format of a book in a library to emphasize the books place: due date card, call numbers, and bar codes. The call number is pseudo-based on my name and placed in the literary section of the library. The bar code says “Read a Book” if scanned.  The reader has to “read” the CD’s in the book which o not flip the way pages flip; they flip up. I think the idea of “turning up” is very different than “turning over”. I think the materiality is lost in the transference to digital media. I want the reader to interact with these symbolic objects of print media and digital media to fully understand the narrative.

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