For this final project brief, I explored the theme of digitisation, specifically in the form of social media being at the heart of the digital movement. After a rocky start locking down a subject and shoot time, I settled on… Continue Reading
So…to say that PB4 has been a bit of a struggle is probably an understatement. Initially, I had planned to interview a street art/mural artist about their process and thoughts on how social media and technology has effected or changed… Continue Reading
A word vomit about my thoughts so far on PB4: So at this stage, I’m still not entirely sure what I want to do. From the last project brief, the biggest takeaway I had was about authenticity, and the genuine… Continue Reading
Visual data My day in graph form: Glitch Art
PB2 Part 3 from Jessica Xiao on Vimeo. Password: pb2 Old media is obsolete For this statement, I have created a short video entailing a brief history of the evolution of technology. I have included some technologies that were game… Continue Reading
New media is intangible In new media studies, the boundary between old and new media is often conceived alongside the divide between analogue and digital media (Natale, 2016); for which the dividing factor resides in the fact that traditional media… Continue Reading
There is no memory without media Before my family moved to Australia, I spent my early childhood years growing up in a small city near Shanghai, China. Having lived in Australia for the majority of my life ever since, the… Continue Reading
A roundup of a bunch of stuff and thoughts from this week’s classes. Lumen prints These were really cool. Concrete vs. fleeting – In the world of… Continue Reading
So this is a thing called a Vidicon tube. When we got shown this in our visit to the ‘Museum of Redundant Media’ I was immediately fascinated by it, but I’m now slightly regretting my decision to research it after… Continue Reading
Role of the library / how you would go about doing research for this studio Not going to lie, I’ve been in the Media & Comm course for three years now and have probably only set foot in the library… Continue Reading