Lecture #3, Web Tech #3, Talk - Han Yo Han

Stream of Consciousness

Today I was interviewed for a mental test, where there is a certain meaning for each question that I answer. The questions are:

"You are in a forest, describe this forest?",
"Start walking until you see a path, describe this path.",
"Walk along this path and you suddenly find a key, pick up the key and describe this.",
"Hold on to the key and walk on, you come across a pond. Come close to the pond, what do you do?",
"Now leave the pond and walk on the path again until you see a house, use the key and unlock the door. What do you see in the house?",
"Exit the house and keep walking. You see a road, what do you see?",
"Look beyond the road, what do you see?",
"Turn around and behind you, what do you see?"

The meaning are, as followed:
The forest describes your current condition, path describes your future, key describes how you solve problems, pond describes your desires, house describes your safety zone, road describes your distractions, beyond the road describes your goals, turn around look behind describes your reflection on the past.

Awareness
• Recognition -> Traits
• Projection (of subconscious)-> Behavior of compensation
• Introspective

Co-Consciousness
• The relation of experiences when they are experienced together
• Barry Dainton
• 1st consciousness + 2nd + 3rd + .... = Stream of Consciousness
• Being deductive
• Phenomenology
• Global Cultural Supermarket
o Consumerism
o Over saturation leads to people saying: I have to go away, I have to find myself
• Multiculturalism
• Identity
o What is Identity?
o Who are you? Not what are you?
• Dreams reflecting the ugly self
• Cognitive Dissonance
o Conflict of agreeable thoughts
• Not only what you are but what you're not.

Web Tech #3
News, Gossip, Poem, Art

Exercise 1: Choose one of the above categories, find an article online and choose one text paragraph. Divide the paragraph into 8 parts. Each part will then be represented by 1 web page. Link all the web pages together so that the 1st page links to the 2nd, the 2nd links to the 3rd, etc. From page 8 links back to page 1. Links should not open in a new window.

Exercise 2: Make the web pages link to each other in a non-linear way.

August 19, Tuesday
Attended a short talk by Korean media artist Han Yo Han at F201. The works (videos) that he shown us embodies little aspects of Korean culture, like how almost all his works shown includes blood, knives or violence. I feel that this artist is good at not only video but also motion graphics, an animation technique which is form of video too.

I'm surprised to hear that (if I haven't listened wrongly) video art is not so popular in Korea? As the founding father of video art is of Korean descendant! Or does Han Yo Han mean that it is not so appreciated by the mainstream audience instead of the art audience. Because I think everywhere in the world, the masses welcome the visually or audibly generic pleasure and most of the experimental works are unappreciated.