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ajeevan · 5 years

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03/15/19

6:47 AM

Just spent 1h studying chemistry. Exam on Monday. Don't know shit about chemistry. Gotta pass.

4h work tonight. 4h tomorrow. Next Saturday I only have 3h. I do have to make sure I do work a few hours because I need the money. I'm probably gonna apply for a holiday job in the fall.

Might tell the manager that I can work every day in the spring holiday so that I at least have one job. Probably like 5h a day.

2h of history and then 2h off and then 1h sports today. Friday is usually a relaxed day. Had another meeting about my school project yesterday. Things are coming along. Gotta write the plot and the script of the scene I want to turn into a stop motion film. Location is probably going to be just a city made out of cardboard boxes. I got the figures. Camera and gear too. Might get another lamp and maybe some colored paper to get different colors for the light. Also have to look for a clamp with a flexible stand so I can get some cool poses for the figures. I do have to experiment with things and figure out how things work. It's going to be a car chase followed by a hand to hand fight. Never done a hand to hand fight before. Done car chases and they're "easy" to pull off compared to other things. Have no school on Tuesday so I'm probably gonna do some experimenting. Might get my phone on Tuesday. Also have to order new shoes.

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tnoya001 · 3 years

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March update

I’ve been thinking a lot about two aspects of my project. One, the more time has passed, the more personal this work has become. The initial idea was to artistically contain time through the use of Machine Learning, by crafting a dataset through a durational process consisting of taking multiple photos of the sky every day for 6 months, and using a styleGAN2 model to generate digital copies of the physical world. A translation if you will. However, an overlapping with my Critical Studies dissertation, where I dealt with nostalgia within a Venezuelan context (I’m from Venezuela, I lived there until August 2015), started sparking feelings and thoughts I had had before, but hadn't use in any art projects (that I can recall).

These ideas started taking shape: the inherent cruelty of time – time is inherently cruel. Moments pass and disappear never to be seen again. The sky turns out to be a perfect example of this. Always similar, for millions of years, yet never the same. In my case, blue skies symbolise an easier time. My childhood. Life was easier –or at least it seemed–, my worries were simpler. Things were warm and fun.

Slowly, as I ventured into my pre-teen years, the socio-cultural environment where I resided started to change for the worse. This had immediate and long lasting consequences on me, my family, and million others. Growing up surrounded by ultra-violence, injustice, cultural decay, and many other horrors takes a toll on you. It changes you forever. Even if one is able to get out without physical scars, psychological scars are there to stay. Not only does it alter your behaviour –to this day I cannot walk without being aware of who and what is around me, motorcycle sounds and sudden loud noises scare me to death, and any interaction with police or immigration officers makes me feel like I’m about to die– but it creates a perfect storm for an epidemic of nostalgia.

It was –and it is– common to hear comments in pro of the military dictatorship of Pérez Jiménez in the 50s, as bad as that one was, at least there was economic growth and rule of law, or so people said. Other eras came to people’s minds as well, but for me, it wasn’t about a previous political era, nor a previous period of social stability, for me it was about my childhood years. Years riddled with adventures, fun, and freedom. This marked me. I have grown up to be a very nostalgic and melancholic person. Having been forced to leave my homeland has created a sort of dissociative state of mind, one does an effort to bury this, but it permeates one way or another. These are some of my thoughts, my meditations:

Living two lives, one in the past, one on the present. What if? I have murdered my past selfs, my past lives; now I have to live with the consequences. I have done everything, yet I haven’t done enough. I judge others. How can they complain? Do they even know? They don’t know shit. Who am I to judge? Who am I to know? I know. Forever an outsider. To inhabit between places. Borrowed words. If you look back you lose, but if you don’t, you forget. We drove around, not knowing it was gonna be the last time. Seeing those fields. Crossing that river. The crux. I have seen moments that are now lost. Webs of innocent decisions with decade lasting consequences. What if I had turned right. What if I had said yes. What if I had kicked that ball. Wha if I hadn’t taken that bus. Never-ending adaptation and acculturation. The thing about immigration is that you can never really go back to exactly where you came from because that place no longer exists once enough time has passed. The person you were back in that first home also doesn’t really exist anymore. Your struggles and your triumphs, your experiences and your age have also changed who you are. That ‘you’, who once lived in that place that no longer exists, also no longer exists. How can I detach?

I’ve come to the conclusion that I need to adapt my work slightly for web. Originally, this was supposed to be an immersive installation. With 4 large projections and surround sound. This would’ve facilitated the experience of witnessing subtle changes in my GAN skies. Given that the exhibition will be online, I think I need another way to hook audiences. As I believe seeing a small video of GAN skies will inevitably become boring after some seconds (if I’m lucky minutes). This is where the previous written thoughts come into play. I’m gonna add on-screen text to my final video. Red subtitles. Sentences, passages, words. I will use them to craft a narrative. It’ll be like a stream of consciousness. I believe these thoughts and experiences are universal among migrants and refugees, among people who were forced to flee. I think it works well with the main concept of using Machine Learning to try to contain time, moments. To recreate them. Given them new infinite life inside the digital world, where things can persist till eternity –or till the servers are disconnected.

Influences: Moshin Hamid (Exit West), Vahni Capildeo (Measures of Expatriation), Svetlana Boym (The Future of Nostalgia), (Arcade Fire (The Suburbs), Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life, Knight of Cups, A Hidden Life, Badlands, Days of Heaven).

The second thing I've been thinking about it the actual structure of my GAN skies. So far my options are:

1) create a whole day, from sunrise to sundown and spread it among x minutes.

2) create several days spread among x minutes, which will create more of a time-lapse vibe, unless I go for something extremely long like 2h (which I don’t want to, I wanna stay around the 12min mark).

3) don’t have a logical structure and have random seeds populate x minutes.

This is where I’m at wight now, at least in terms of content and concept. Technically speaking, I feel alright. I have done tests in TensorFlow through Paperspace and it’s just a matter of waiting till I have my final dataset on the first week of April. I still plan to use Max to create my soundtrack. I’ll probably mix the final track in an app/software that allows to do binaural mixes, as I think this is a good replacement for mi initial 5.1 surround sound idea.

Along these lines:

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bloojayoolie · 5 years

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