Picture of brainstorm for creating the question we hope to answer for Assignment #4

1. How will these ideas allow you to observe, pay attention and capture the rhythms of the environments you might focus on?My group and I decided to focus on the limitations of capturing environments, to the extent of, how close can us human beings get to seeing them? This idea, and its complexity, will force us to to pay close attention to the environment around us. From the reading,  Carlin displays researchers thoughts on capturing a river stream. One researcher (Researcher D), describes the river like the ocean, as it is “unknowable” (Carlin, 2018) due to our inability to stay out there too long or we will die. This concept accurately displays what we are trying to express in our media artefact, and what we hope to explore. We will test these ideas by going to the extreme and really trying to push the boundaries of these limits.
2. What feedback did you get on these ideas and how might you incorporate that into your project?Some feedback that as given to us was mostly ideas on how to express this concept for the final submission. We were given lots of great ideas, including going on the Yarra River and filming it almost never ending stream in order to capture the limits that we can see. This is something that we may interact with, as water seems to be the central concept to show this limitation of capturing environments using media. For our tests, we will further explore what we can see through the lens of a camera and go from there in terms of creating a concrete design to show these limits.

Reference:

Carlin, D. (2018) Fieldwork, Sydney Review of Books. Available at: https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/fieldwork/. (Accessed: 17 July 2019).