The term “tactical media” refers to a critical usage and theorization of media practices that draw on all forms of old and new, both lucid and sophisticated media, for achieving a variety of specific noncommercial goals and pushing all kinds of potentially subversive political issues. 2001
Digital Resistance: Explorations in Tactical Media : Critical Art Ensemble : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
INTERACTIVE SONIC SCULPTURE / 3D PRINTED FABRICATION, PLASTIC FLOWER POT, ELECTRONICS, SOIL, PHONE FOR AUDIO INPUT, ZINE
14.5 X 14.5 X 12 CM
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ONEIRIC YAM (POT) is an interactive installation piece incorporating 3D printed objects, electronics, sound, and zines.
The Oneiric Yam is an oneiric, crypto-botanical structure (it relates to dreams and mythological or unproven plants). It grows out of the ground in an irregular egg shape and sports a hollow interior and holes in the walls. At night, spores are released into the air through those holes. When animals (including humans) inhale them, they begin to dream.
Several leds illuminate the yam from the inside. an audio jack can be plugged in to play an ambient synthesized track, overlayed with dreams recited by Elevenlab's text-to-speech AI.
The zine SEAMOUNT ONEIRONAUTICS! builds the world surrounding the Oneiric Yam, contextualizing it within a sci-fi story about a lone researcher.
The Oneiric Yam is the main subject of my Seamount Oneironautics series of works, which focus on dreams, lucid dreaming, and crypto-biology.
For this project, I focused on enclosures: enclosing the circuit in the Yam, enclosing the Yam in a pot, and enclosing/contextualizing the piece within a story (the zine).
Phase Shift is a media art collective started by Andrei Jay and Paloma Kop
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My dad passed away on Saturday. He was only 64, just five days shy of his 65th birthday, and I am only 21. I know this may sound stupid to some of you, but watching the new episode of hsmtmts was the longest period of time that I've gone in the past five days without feeling overwhelming grief.
It just reminds me of why I am getting my degree in Media Arts, because this stuff can truly heal. Maybe it's not always a Disney+ show, but we can all find media to relate to and find comfort in during the hard times. I hope to be able to create that for someone some day.
My Dad was my very best friend. We spoke every day. I told him pretty much everything. He would sit on the phone with me and listen to me ramble on about the most random shit--often tv shows, movies, or music that I liked or vehemently hated. He loved me dearly, and I loved him too. I still do.
He used to cry whenever I cried because he just couldn't stand seeing me in pain. The last thing that he would want is for me to stop living my life because he stopped living his. I am going to use this as a motivator in the coming days.
This is all to say that, I am incredibly grateful for the existence of high school musical the musical the series. It may be silly and the fandom may act like petulant children at times, but with it I was able to find a moment of peace that I wouldn't have otherwise. And for that I am truly grateful :')