he helped me brainstorm some more and i thought about this:
there's a company that makes stuff that helps you do crazy things and i may be able to use a teleo device for this idea:
i could make one of those simple contact mics like i made in tim's class last semester and tape it to my chest. then, have the sound of my heart interface with an electrical switch that would send alternating currents into pieces of raw meat... hopefully causing the muscle fibers in the meat to contract, and then, a camera would capture the motion of the muscles and that would be data to play with in a max patch.
so i am giving myself only one more week to keep coming up with all these wild ideas and maybe narrow it down.
also i will know for sure which way to go once i get the surgery out of the way.
in other news, i made a sweater for a hotdog:
it looks more like a voodoo doll now, cathy will be happy. and it's the first sweater i ever made, so i am happy with it. it also kinda looks like a cross.
oh, also as for grad review day plans: i found out that George has sattelite internet in eleuthera, it has much higher download speed than upload speed, so it should be ok for video chat for GRD but i might be a little choppy.
another thing eric and i talked about is the struggle i feel between word and image in terms of making work which is "about" something which i have already verbalized in some way. and he suggested maybe i make the work about that dialog in myself... but then i am afraid i would be settling on one side of the debate by lending the work to the idea of that debate... that approach favors the verbal idea of the debate over the material, image based process i like to maintain. i dunno.
and then eric asked what i thought the point of making my work was. hmmmm. i am really into ann lauterbach these days and here's something she said about poetry: "Poems that interest me are poems that show me how to proceed, not where to go or what to look at. They assuage the panic of the Stranger's Hand by awakening curiosity rather than fear. The poem attests to the mobility of the frame, not to the totality of the picture."
i am not trying to frame an argument or even a statement with my work... i am not trying to fool the viewer into perceiving a "total picture" i guess i am really trying to make something that holds my interest long enough for me to make it. what holds my interest? intelligence, delight, absurdity and sincerity.
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