Wednesday 10 February 2010

Assignment Specification

You are required to research and examine outmoded means of communication and re-purpose  the most appropriate for the new digital media age. Your challenge is firstly, to understand how the chosen method affected change in the context of its time and secondly, to propose and construct a contemporary response.

Keep a blog of your work and try to draw inspiration from your research – avoid the prosaic. Some examples for consideration are:

  • Smoke Signals
  • Drums
  • Semaphore
  • Flags
  • Heliographs

The final pieces may end up entirely on screen or become integrated into real objects into real objects – see Steam Punk for inspiration.

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