ISEA talk

The ISEA talk was fine! But even better was meeting so nice and interesting people there!

Soon, I'll post more info about the talk here.

Place, identity and Culture

At the moment I am studying for making a PhD proposal. The area in which I am researching is place, identity and culture. My interest started while doing this project, so it is kind of a continuity of this project.

I'll keep posting here some quotes I come across that I find interesting and relevant to the subject of this blog.

“(…) migrants are not ‘exceptional’ people – ‘others’. On the contrary (…). Nowadays, in the western world, only a minority of people are born, live their entire lives and die in the same rural community or urban neighbourhood.” (Massey and Jess, A place in the world, 1995, p.7)

“the migrant’s sense of place and of personal identity often involves a duality – ‘here’ and ‘there’ – which is an important aspect of their lives. When they are abroad they tend to identify with home, when they are home they identify with abroad.” (Massey and Jess, A place in the world, 1995, p.29)
-- This quote I could relate myself. I just came back from Brazil, where I come from. I went there after almost 2 years I'm leaving in the UK. Although I try to keep my mind the most open as possible to see and accept the differences between the two places, and I'm always questioning national culture, when I was there I could relate myself to my life here, the culture I am leaving here. And when I am here, I relate myself to the culture there. I guess it is just a matter of I'm related to the two (and of course more than two) cultures.


More quotes to come.

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What have you left behind? on Twitter!

Now What have you left behind? is on Twitter!
Everytime we are leaving something behind from making small decisions to big decisions. So, if you come across something you left behind, twitter to @whatileftbehind

Contribute sending what you left behind to @whatileftbehind

Click to follow: http://twitter.com/whatIleftbehind

(*note the name to send the twitter is "What I left behind" for number of characters reason.)

Next event: ISEA Conference

The next event I'll be participating with this project is the ISEA Conference, in Belfast.

I'll have a talk there on the 28th August at 12pm about the process, development and outcomes of this project.


To see the full program or other info about the conference: [click here] (I'm in page 20 of the full program)

Are you coming to the Conference? Let me know and we can meet there.

Degree Show - photos

Next event: Degree Show!

Come and visit me in the degree show this week.

20 to 25 June
(Saturday to Thursday)

Place: 'TV Studio' - D block - UWE Bower Ashton Campus.

I'll be there with the notebooks, the website, a projection showing a funny making of video, the big notebook to take part.

For more info about the event at:
http://www.uwe.ac.uk/sca/view/

Bristol Design Festival - check

Bristol Design Festival finished today.

Report:

• 95 people took part in the big notebook (more than expected);
• 3 pens are gone (it's part of it);
• all the notebooks safely back;
• lots of postcards / business cards given away;
• 5 post-its with the title of my project in the wall "what you most liked in the BDF?" (as soon as I could see);
• lot of enthusiasm earned from watching people interacting with my project;
• good direct feedback;
• my desk is back to my room;

;)

Overall: Positive!

Sound!

The website has sound now! Me and Ben Mitchell (who comes from animation/sound) stayed here the whole day yesterday recording, editing and mixing sounds made out of paper, pen, books.

I'm very pleased with the work we've done! It's amazing how sounds from tapping on paper, closing a pen, ripping paper, leave a book fall on the floor,... can become such a good resource for rhythm just by isolating and mixing together.

Thank you very much, Ben!

The record was all made with normal microphone (a Guitar-hero microphone, to be very honest) and it worked quite well for the quality I needed.

Check it out!
www.whathaveyouleftbehind.com