2024年11月3日 星期日

week 10. material speculation

A letter from an alumni recalling this course ten years before. (show thanks and respects)
What if we receive a letter from a student ten years later to remember the class now?

1. students present EX5 (AI-generative Images with EX4 stories)

other Neuromancer related objects and scenarios:





 William Gibson's Neuromancer: Concept Art

 2. Paper reading: Material Speculation (AA'15)
3. Rung-Huei Liang. 2013. Pragmatist Poetics in Interaction Design. (IASDR 2013)


"Bachelard sets material imagination apart from formal imagination [2]. Rather than being conceived intellectually in formal imagination, material imagination is an idea that comes from contact with nature material, such as water and fire." p. 2524



Questions:
  1. What are counterfactual artifacts?
       (containing an 'if'- clause that is contrary to fact)
      nonfunctional prototypes, storytelling props, fictional objects
  2. What is Possible World Theory?
  3. What is pragmatist speculation?
  4. What is formal speculation v.s. material speculation?


Final Project: (proposal 11/11)
Design Fiction with AI 
 
team-work or individual 
At least 3 ideas and the possible forms of design fiction for final project 


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2024年10月27日 星期日

week 9. design fiction

1. students present EX5 (AI-generative Images with EX4 stories)
2. What is Design Fiction?
    What is Prop?
    What is Diegetic Prototype?




Core77 2022 Speculative Design

The Solution Printer: Magic Realist Design Fiction


Discussion:
1. What are the differences between Design Fiction and Speculative Design?
    (clear fiction v.s. techno-poetic speculation)
2. Aesthetics of speculation: What if an an everyday object is a diegetic prototype of another possible world?


How about science fiction?




also see TEI 2017 student design challenge references:

Watching/Reading List
We encourage wild, obscure references to any kind of sci-fi media. Here’s some our favourite to get you started


      • Vermilion sands [JG Ballard] - Houses with memory, living fashion and sound jewellry.
      • Rainbows End [Vernor Vinge] - Augmented Reality, haptic feedback and silent messages.
      • Snow Crash [Neil Stephenson] - Virtual reality, physical augmentations.
      • Her [Spike Jonze] - computers as people, ubiquitous computing, super AI.
      • Matrix [The Wachowski Brothers] - simulated reality, downloading programs into the brain
      • Blade Runner [Ridley Scott] - Dystopian futures, Androids and AI, replication of beings.
      • Brainstorm [Douglas Trumbull] - physically experiencing somebody else's reality
      • Diamond Age [Neil Stephenson] - parenting from afar via evolving storytelling
      • Dune [Frank Herbert] - cognitive augmentation

https://tei.acm.org/2017/sdc.php








九龍城寨

【神奈川‧川崎】電腦九龍城寨～仿香港鬼城遊樂廣場

奉天宮媽祖廟
Scifi





EX:
觀察生活周遭, 拍照片表達對照的概念
   例如:
   未來 vs. 過去， 推測的世界 (what we have the potential to become) vs. 現狀  (what we are) 
   都市場景, 交通工具, 廢墟/大樓, 生活用品, 信仰, 政治, 國際經濟, 權力, 社會制度, 家庭制    度, 教育, 身體, 運動, 休閒, 品牌, 符號, 文字, 自然環境, 物種....




Reference:

Design fictions an introduction and provisional taxonomy

by Derek Hales

Neuromancer
Part I : Chiba City Blues

"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."

神經喚術士
第一部: 千葉市藍調

"港口上空是電視的顏色，電視調至死頻的顏色。"


 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1kJI-UvYwQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNVbrHjX-xs








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2024年10月20日 星期日

week 8. soundscape fiction project demo (EX5)

 1.  AI aided soundscape fiction demo

2. Introducing Part II Design Fiction

        Design Fiction

        Transmedia Narratives & Simulacra

        Material Speculation

EX5 (AI-generative Images with EX4 stories)

1. Choose one story in your EX4

2. generate several images to illustrate your stories

3. summarize your method (including texts, texts-to-image, prompts, structure, style,...) 


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2024年10月12日 星期六

week 7. fictional soundscape & sonic possible world

[Tutorial]
    Introducing ChatGPT as an AI tool for narrative making
    Using Text-to-Speech software to create narrative voices
    Making Layered sounds as fictional soundscape
   


Ekkomaten—exploring the echo as a design fiction concept

Sonic Possible Worlds by salomé voegelin






BBC Radio Afternoon Drama - Forever Mankind



Moon graffiti by Near Future Lab (Counterfactual thought experiment)



The truth podcast: Moon Graffiti, 2011/2/11
http://www.thetruthpodcast.com/story/2015/10/15/moon-graffiti

Feature Lab:
  Near Future Lab
  Blog

非洲太空計畫


Once Upon a Future - IoX project
  Science fiction radio play by BBC






Frozen in Time: Radio Sci Fi Drama



SCIFI Channel: DUST

"Lunar" 




Confabulation/Speculation/Reminiscence ?

中文科幻廣播劇:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1TUcVGSLWg




Imagine you are a future anthropologist, record soundscape of Taipei:
record the following 4 types of sound

1. Ambient sound
2. Foreground sound (music, movie themes...)
3. human voice, conversation, news report, TV talk show...
4. sound clips from science fiction films

possible worlds interactive short film: Possibilia
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2024年10月5日 星期六

week 6. speculative aesthetics sharing & narrative workshop

I. speculative aesthetics sharing (1.5 hr)

 EX3 學生報告 (2024/10/7): 

speculative aesthetics around the life world:
請觀察生活周遭, 拍照片表達奇異的推測美感(aesthetics of speculation)、技術詩意(techno-poetic)、類平行世界、almost impossible reality。

Deadline: 2024/10/7

上傳至雲端硬碟，並印出兩張與同學交換。

Sharing Activity:
0. 全班分組 (每組3-5人)
1.  將自己的兩張照片分別與不同的同學交換
2.  各自針對拿到的照片，進行"推測特質" 標註 (使用便利貼)
3.  組內討論與分享照片心得
4.  以組為單位，歸納 至少20 個 "推測特質"
  參考過去成果：
out-of-place,
out-of-time,
multiple possible worlds,
hidden truth,
object's viewpoint,
other unknown actor's viewpoint,
other species viewpoints
withdrawal,
resistance,
object's enjoyment (allure, emotion),
non-human (machine, AI)'s perspective,
strange object-to-object relationship,
unknown purpose
useless design
strange ritual
serious equipment for unknown tasks
formal spatial arrangement for unknown activities
deserted space for a specific task

 5. 每組推薦2~3張 照片，分享報告給全班同學，並分享歸納的"推測特質"

II. 敘事練習 (1.5 hr)

EX4: (10/7 week 6 in-class workshop, upload deadline 10/14)
1. 選定一段科幻小說(代表未來可能世界，摘錄做成幾張牌卡例如"神經幻術士")、一段懷舊小說(代表過去可能世界，摘錄做成幾張牌卡例如"天橋上的魔術師")、一段日常生活紀錄(代表現在真實世界，錄音逐字稿摘錄片段)
2. 依照[時間架構句型總表.pptx]的時空模型，創作至少五種敘事，並畫出時空敘事架構圖。

workshop activity
0. 全班分組 (每組3-5人)
1. 簡單分享 "未來文本" 牌卡，"過去文本" 牌卡
2. 每人選定一段自己的日常錄音紀錄文，並選出五種時空敘事模式
3. 可以使用自己或組員的 牌卡 來組合敘事
4. 可使用 chatGPT 生成符合要求的敘事
5. 每位同學分享一段自己最有感覺的敘事。
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2024年9月28日 星期六

week 5. entangled narratives with possible worlds (EX4)(Project1)

1. what is "narrative" in science fiction?
2. what is "entangled narrative" within possible worlds and actual world
3. What is "counterfactual narratives" ?
[reading]: 可能世界理論.pdf  part III
[reading]: 敘事學與時間架構.pdf
[reading]: 時間架構句型總表.pptx

Markussen & Knutz (2013) Design fiction 時間架構圖：



DEMO:
 Embodied soundscape of sonic possible worlds

敘事練習 
EX4: (10/7 week 6 in-class workshop, upload deadline 10/14)
1. 選定一段科幻小說(代表未來可能世界，摘錄做成幾張牌卡例如"神經幻術士")、一段懷舊小說(代表過去可能世界，摘錄做成幾張牌卡例如"天橋上的魔術師")、一段日常生活紀錄(代表現在真實世界，錄音逐字稿摘錄片段)
2. 依照[時間架構句型總表.pptx]的時空模型，創作至少五種敘事，並畫出時空敘事架構圖。

Project 1 Soundscape Fiction: (Deadline 10/21)
AI 輔助敘事
1. 使EX1日常錄音與時空架構
2. 與 ChatGPT 共同完成敘事
3. 兩人一組，為對方完成3種錄音，為自己完成2種錄音

[ChatGPT] 關鍵字，敘事引導，範例介紹，(next week 姵伶助教)



上傳到Google drive (公布於 FB 課程社團)

參考：
Thomas Markussen and Eva Knutz. 2013. The poetics of design fiction. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces (DPPI '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 231-240.
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2024年9月22日 星期日

week 4. aesthetics of speculation (EX3)

 Introduction to Aesthetics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesthetics


Questions:
What is "speculation"? What is speculative design? What is aesthetics of speculation?

naive realism 素樸實在論.  modal realism (MR) 模態實在論, possiblist realism 可能主義實在論， speculative realism (SR) 推測實在論

pragmatist aesthetics 實用主義美學 (Dewey), speculative aesthetics 推測美學


學生報告分享 (9/30):
用一張照片(拍攝或AI 生成均可)，詮釋"神經喚術士"第一、二章的一個情境，(可以搭配書中句子)




EX3 學生報告 (2024/10/7):
speculative aesthetics around the life world:
請觀察生活周遭, 拍照片表達奇異的推測美感(aesthetics of speculation)、技術詩意(techno-poetic)、類平行世界、almost impossible reality。

Deadline: 2024/10/7

上傳至雲端硬碟，並印出兩張與同學交換。

  
  參考: Lynne Cohen, Lucinda Devlin, Mike Mandel and Larry Sultan


Lars Tunbjörk’s Alien at the Office　(2004)　  (mundane spaces that seem extraordinary. Yet these alien spaces are where many people spend their working lives)
Lucinda Devlin's photos:
http://www.lucindadevlin.com/

Lynne Cohen's artworks:
http://www.lynne-cohen.com/
Lynne Cohen’s Occupied Territory (1987)
Taryn Simon’s An American Index of the Modern and Unfamiliar9 (2007)

 Richard Ross’s Architecture of Authority10 (2007)
(The above three examples reveal spaces that we know must exist but have no idea how they look. They have a harsh, inhuman quality, stripped down to the absolute essentials, emphasizing their purpose.

Lucinda Devlin’s The Omega Suites (1991–1998)  provides glimpses into extreme
but ghoulish (殘忍的) spaces—execution chambers, the places where the state, on its
citizens’ behalf, takes people’s lives. They are clinical, easy-to-maintain,
brutally engineered environments designed to achieve one purpose—the
humane killing of human beings. They include safety measures, provision (條款) for
last-minute retrieval, and the need for the event to be witnessed.


Larry Sultan's Untitled Evidence:
http://larrysultan.com/gallery/evidence/ : gathered images from the archives of research centers,
laboratories, test sites, and industrial facilities, presented without captions
or other information. They compel us to interpret what is going on, to project
stories and meanings onto them, illustrating that even objective records are
rarely neutral.

 For us, these are the proto-images for an aesthetics of speculation. They
suggest a techno-poetic landscape situated somewhere between what we are

and what we have the potential to become.





Questions:
What are the possible qualities of speculative aesthetics?  for example:
out-of-place,
out-of-time,
multiple possible worlds,
hidden truth,
object's viewpoint,
other unknown actor's viewpoint,
other species viewpoints
withdrawal,
resistance,
object's enjoyment (allure, emotion),
non-human (machine, AI)'s perspective,
strange object-to-object relationship,
unknown purpose
useless design
strange ritual
serious equipment for unknown tasks
formal spatial arrangement for unknown activities
deserted space for a specific task

...
Constructively identify at least 20 qualities by concluding classmates' sharing.


Example :


國家歌劇院的試作模型

Reading:
Speculative aesthetics

Speculative Aesthetics and Object-Oriented Inquiry (OOI),” by N. Katherine Hayles 

 Graham Harman: “Aesthetics as First Philosophy"
 p. 159:

The essential move here is to identify aesthetics with “enjoyment” (Levinas’s term) or “allure” (Harman’s) so that the sensual qualities of objects in which other objects “bathe” is understood as an essentially aesthetic response. Thus aesthetics is generalised so that it applies not only to humans but to all objects, including inanimate ones.

p. 167:


Following Harman, Bogost accepts that “all objects recede interminably (沒完沒了的) into themselves,” which implies that putting things “at the center of a new metaphysics also requires us to admit that they do not exist just for us.”
p. 168:

"we never understand the alien experience, we only ever reach for it metaphorically.”
p. 169:
"Where I begin to depart from Bogost and Harman is on the issue of how objects manifest themselves. Whereas they emphasise an object’s allure, the attraction it emanates for other objects, more important in my experience is the resistance objects offer to human manipulation and understanding"
"The difference between resistance and acquiescence is that acquiescence is always metaphoric, whereas resistance is decisive: “Whatever I am, I’m not that,” an object can respond to human probing."
 p. 178.
"I ended by arguing that the way to escape anthropocentrism is precisely through an imaginative projection into the worldviews of other objects and beings, based on evidence about their ways of being in the world,"


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