Presentation Quarter 1

Kwartaalbeoordeling

1. What is the theme I am investigating? Why is this relevant?

OurSelfie. Communicating through selfies, they have taken over the internet.  Every major social media site is overflowing with millions of them.

 Selfies are either the latest form of self-expression.  A way of expressing yourself and putting yourself in a light that you can control.”  There are numerous theories about the negative and / or positive impact of the ''so-called- selfie madness.''

In this visual culture, the selfie quickly and easily shows, not tells, how you’re feeling, where you are, what you’re doing. 

We noticed in our own environment that some people are so busy with profiling themself that they completely overlook 'the moment’ they want to capture. If you only have a good day when you get a certain numbers of likes on that forced but conscious selfie and your using this to ensure your self-esteem, then it has become an obsession. Like the Danny Bowman who was constantly in search of taking the perfect selfie and when he realized he couldn’t he wanted to die. 

2. How does this relate to the body, identity, and technology? Defend the relevancy. 

What do we want to show in our selfie? What do we want others to see? How exactly do we want people to view us? 

We associate selfies mostly with faces, but that doesn’t have to be. How far can you stretch out your arm to capture a big part of yourself? The belfie for example: bottom selfie

 There's a rapidly growing preference for online conversations that prioritize images over words. Why text “I’m happy” when you could post a picture of your smiling face?

 Clearly, there is a symbiosis between smartphones, social media and selfies. Almost all smartphones have front-facing cameras, which is designed to take pictures of ourselves,”   Some people say that by studying your own selfies, you know with which look and attitude you look the best, and so it becomes second nature to adjust your facial expression in the ‚’real'' world.

A selfie among else can function as a means of self-expression, a construction of a positive image, a tool of self-promotion, a cry for attention and love, a way to express belonging to a certain community.

The selfie has become so dominant a form, it may even be shaping technology, because many products have been developed, in order to make selfies better.  When you feel the urge to become an image, you can, with little effort and almost no consequences. It gives control. It gives release. It can be a way to control others images of us. 

3. What is my research question? Why is this relevant?

How can the use of ‘selfies’ into material patterns confront one’s concept of self representation?

If a picture paints a thousand words, then what about a selfie? Is a selfie is an "instant" depiction of the self?   Selfies are mirrors which we can capture, but sharing those ’mirrors’’ is done primarily online. We want to capture ourself in every possible way with our smartphone. What will happen if we create a pattern of selfies and bring this in public space? By means of making the selfies wearable. We retain control in what we want to show in the pictures. We want to try out all conceivable selfies. 

the virtual-mini-me becomes the analog mini-me- 

- were gonna explore this way of representing ourselves to others, but of communicating with one another through images. would we ever get enough of or selfie? 

•  how will people react when you’re walking with you’re selfie all the time?, instead of staying on your phone or online, we take them into the physical world.

 4. How am I structuring my research? Why is this relevant?

•  organizing our thoughts and collected information

•  research plan

•  experimenting (We don’t want to lose ourself in all the data)

•  prototypes

•  designs

•  shshowing the designs in public space

•  reflection

•  conclusions

relevant because otherwise it’s going to be a mess.

5. What tools or methods could I/will I use to conduct my research? How are these relevant?

•  experimenting: keeping control of what we want to show

•  prototyping & implementation

•  with the final design we want to see how other people will react and thus we hope we can answer our research  question. 


Feedback lizet & thelma
Good intro – clear question clear topic
Urgent of relevance is well answered
Pity that you don’t have experiments and that the plan isn’t clear
Putting down your actions, what are you going to do to actively produce?
If you are not enthusiastic selfie makers, why would you use yourself for the end product?
You can use someone who is an selfie addict
Give yourself some plan/restriction, make a selfie every day or every 10 min for 1 week.
Pick three different things, now to brought because of the amount of all the different selfie types.
Explore a few of the options, every week another one, so you can get a lot of information.