This week I learnt a lot about the dynamic landscape. After I went through weekly reading I felt like it was a conclusion of all of the previous weekly reading. I acknowledge that people need to focus on detail, if so, people will find out a lot of interesting stuff. According to the Gibson, R.(2015) changescape is a system and this system can help people to intensify their experience and acknowledge the understanding of nature, society and technology. In addition, the system has to including those functions, the first one is able to save environment information for the future purpose, the second one is a complex system (Gibson, R, 2015). which means a human can intervene in the system, such as, people can build their own creative ideas in the artwork. As my favourite point from the reading said every system would no sleep, no pause, no save, while everything is uploading, germinate and spring (Gibson, R, 2015).

I think it was a very intelligent idea because I think everything is connecting as well and the system is complex and persistent. For example, the tree, the tree is part of nature, it grows up by human’s activities, weather and so on. people give chemical fertilizer to the tree. Nature gives sunshine and rainy to the tree. That’s why I choose a tree to be my dynamic landscape. The tree is changing all the times just not obvious but if people pay more attention to it, we will find out. Furthermore, the tree can transform other stuff. Exemplifies, people can use the tree to make chopsticks, chairs and a lot of woody things.

To reflect on my video, I think I can spend more time recording the change of the tree. Also, I can insert subtitles in my video.

Reference:

Gibson, R. (2015)’Changescape-An Introduction’, in Changescapes: Complexity, Mutability, Aesthetics. Crawley, WA: UWA Publishing, pp. 1-20. 

This week I learned a lot about how the landscape is damaged and how to survive in a damaged landscape and so on.  According to Harway (2016) stay with trouble is a kind of education, people discover the trouble and learn to live with trouble. In the meantime, people need to protect the environment or whether humans might extinction (Harway 2016). I think this point is very correct. Nowadays, there are a lot of people just making trouble to the Earth and without thinking. Such as greenhouse effect, a lot of people driving a car for convenience but they are not thinking that will intensify the greenhouse effect. In addition, there is another article I found out that a very meaningful point. according to Tsing (2015), collaborative survival is that how people collaborate with others in exchanging resources way. Also when people exchanging resources, how to protect the environment (Tsing 2015). I think that’s pretty right because people exploit resources, people need to care about if they exploit what outcome will come with.

Therefore, in my media piece, I filmed some construction sites and cars. I think construction site sounds can give audiences a direct feeling, those sounds are very noising and that will make people very uncomfortable. As the damaged landscape is a very serious problem and people will feel uncomfortable it for sure. The construction site will produce a lot of rubbish and make a lot of pollution to the environment. In addition, Cars also having the same problem, nowadays, there are so many people driving cars in their daily life. However, people have not noticed that when they driving cars, it producing Co2 to the Earth. That is a damaged landscape as well.

To reflect on my sketch, I think I can do it better way in terms of getting to the construction site to film it and use professional equipment to record it.

references:

Haraway, D., 2016. ‘Introduction’, in: Staying with the trouble : Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press, Durham, pp1-8. (Links to an external site.) viewed 29 Mar 2021.

Tsing, A.L., 2015. ‘Arts of Noticing’, in: The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton University Press, Princeton, pp. 17-25. viewed 29 Mar 2021.

This week we talked about entangled and watched some of the example. I think the meaning of entangled just like something connecting. However, just based on my own understanding of this word is not enough at all. According to Ingold (2011) The meaning of entangled can be an interaction beween two kinds of stuff even more, also, for example, like a tree, in this case, wind, flower, worm, and so on can be entangled with a tree. However, If we look at those things in another way, they also are individual stuff. To sum up, I think entangled is kind of something that will come with the subject, in other words, it is a relationship of the object. In the class, we did some activities I think that were very helpful for me. Those exercises helped me to build up a clear structure of what am I gonna do in my Sketch 4.

Therefore, In my video, I choose a tree to be my topic because I think the tree is very important in our daily life. Not only it can provide Co2 to the world but also it can reduce pollution. When I think about a tree, a lot of things pop up in my mind. For instance, wind, sandstorm, tree worm, followers, and so on. However, based on my city environment, I could not film the sandstorm but I tried to film as much entanglement stuff as possible. After I have done this Sketch, I think I noticed that everything has a connection. For example, water, river and so on.

To reflect my Sketch, I think I can do more footage to show other stuff connecting with my subject and maybe use better equipment.

Reference:

Ingold, T. (2011) ‘Rethinking the Animate, Reanimating Thought’, in Being Alive: Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description. London: Routledge, pp. 67-75.