Exam Project Brief

Brief:

Students are asked to choose one of the quotes as a starting point, or to do an independent project totally of their own choice, and formulate a brief, indicating possible avenues they may wish to explore. This is registered with the Subject Leader and makes up the ‘Part One – Intentions’ form. The ‘Part Two – Project Review’ form is submitted, reviewing the final projects’ intentions and conclusions, alongside all research work and the final project execution. It is the overall intention of this assignment to provide students with the opportunity to draw a distinct parallel between practice and theory. Students should be able to reflect through the development of this piece of work a process of independent thinking and illustrate an ability to problem solve on a conceptual and practical level.

Please choose from one of the following options:

1. Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.
Jean Arp

2. Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications. Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere.
John Perry Barlow

3. The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.
Jean Baudrillard

4. The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.
Marshall McLuhan

5. Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
Joseph Addison

From these selections, the 3 that interest me the most are numbers 3, 4 and 5.

These are the 3 I will be conducting research on, in order to find out what my final idea could be.