Read through and script rewrite
Tryouts with lighting
First SnorriCam Shot
Setting up the location
Shooting
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Table
V1:
One way of building: Connecting the plates directly
Other way: a frame
Other versions:
Dimensions
Moodboard
Setup
table, stickers and installations
table and stools final version
Creating a brand for the project
sticker set
Platform to link to my stickers and research
Next step cutout door
revisit wood workshop and order wood
Defining the theoretical framework of our product
Notes from meeting with Krystian ลukasik, research fellow at Harvard University, a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Warsaw and an Advisor at the Polish Economic Institute, where he works in the Department of the Digital Economy
Defining the technology of our product
Notes from meeting with Kuba Pieszczek, Data Scientist and Machine Learning Engineer at QED
Brand Identity
Core beliefs
Logo
Tone of Voice
We used agent mode of ChatGPT and trained it using Twitter posts of renowned members of effective accelerationism movement as well as the Techno-Optimist Manifesto itself, to translate terms from classical economy to the language of eff/acc.
Then we tried to use the agent to create a mission statement for our company.
After feedback session with Soph, we realised we need to be more bold. This is our mission statement after changes:
” We believe that cutting-edge technology is here to take humanitieโs potential to another level, thatโs why we invest in AI-powered solutions. EverGrowth exists to weaponize policy. Our software analyses complex real-life data, stress-tests policy decisions while modeling their impact trajectories, and suggest protocols that can be used to reroute more capital and energy through a broad base of builders – not just a handful – restoring patency of the pipes of the techno-capital infrustructure.
EverGrowth treats taxation, money transfers, labour market policies, wage adaption, ownership, governance, and crossโborder finance as nodes and pipelines of the techno-capital machine. This engine cannot be stopped and this engine will be optimized and maximized thanks to EverGrowth.”
Website design
We took inspiration from the following websites:
What we need to do next:
premise: the internet is dead -> AI doesn’t work
Due to the overflow of false information AI is not able to tell the truth from fake news. Also everything one can find on the internet there is no way of verifying if it is true or not.
show this state with: news, AI reading it
a. the gov decides every AI will be m.AI (maybe beta testers)
b. people develop this and there is no choice but to use it because everything else is trash (no alternative)
c. the AI itself notices that users are more and more unhappy with its answer so it stops answering and starts questioning. eg.: FLO
-> in comes m.AI (maiuticsAI)
our chracters use it but are rather frustrated – they then try to turn back to the internet but are even more frustrated.
-> second try with m.AI
this time our characters really try and see the benefits and get a kick out of their learing expirience with m.AI.
-> resoltuion ?
a. the POV of the single screens merge – they stop talking to their devices and turn to humans for answers.
What kind of AI could help bring people together?
What alternatives will we adapt to, in case of the death of the internet?
our characters will be shown from the devices cameras perspective.
Hippies that revert to also only talking in questions
Strongly religious people that cannot stand the AI questioning their belief/god
Children Why? why? why?
Seniors not affine with any kind of technology
Single-parents
People falling into an existential crisis (maybe even suicidal)
Rebels
impatient/unwilling people that just want answers
Positive responders super efficient, super creative
storyboard
write some scenes -> frustration scenes
WHO are our characters?
find refined aesthetic references
Directing Attention / Shaping Experience
SCORES
DEFINE INTENTIONโจ
Trust that care is the foundation.โจAct with civic mind and community orientation.โจRefuse politeness. Pursue interest. Commit to the collective.โจDirect when needed.โจFollow only if you choose.โจStop whenever you must. Resist and refuse with intention.
MAKING THE VESSEL
Enter an alienating experience.โจCreate the vessel.
HOW TO ENTER THE SPACE
Enter by walking backwards.โจEnter by walking backwards with eyes closed, guided by another.โจTrace borders and erase them.โจDrag the vessel on the ground. Listen to the sound.
TINGLING ATOMS
Take deep breaths.
When ready, release a hum on each exhale.
Shift the tonality. Find what feels right in your body; let the vibration travel down your throat until it reaches your pelvic floor.
Listen to the surroundings and tune to what is present.
Synchronize with emerging rhythms.
Break out of them.
Return to silence.
Embrace the silence.
EXPERIENCING THROUGH THE VESSEL
Listen for voices through the vessel.โจListen to the vessel through the floor.โจSpeak your native tongue into the vessel.โจCommunicate with others through the vessel.
COLLECTIVE CARE
Gather all hands onto the vessel.
Pass the vessel from person to person. Move it across the space.
Two people must always maintain contact with the vessel; they do not move their feet.
The remaining three move to form a chain and transfer the vessel.
Then the first two release and step forward.
Continue the chain.โจ
BREATHING BODIES
Breathe slow or fast.โจLie down. Place and balance the vessel where pain appears. Direct breath into that point.โจLet the vesselโs weight set the rhythm of your breath.
Place your vessel somewhere on site.โจPossibly everyone places their vessel on the same spot.
FIGHTING RHYTHM
Find a comfortable position. Begin with small waves.โจLet the waves grow.โจIf sitting or lying, rise to standing.โจContinue moving in waves.โจFight rhythm. Notice where the body wants to go. Go the opposite way.โจAllow another person to guide your movement. Release control.
BREAKING THE VESSEL
Break the vessel.
Open Stage / Angewandte Performance Lab
Open Pain Lab
Vessels
Roles
Ronja: Directing/Shot List, Camera 1, Post-Production, Sound
Clark: Styling, Prop Design, Camera 2, Sound
Valentin: Storyboard Sketching, Digital Archive Footage, (Post-)Production Assistant
Law of Inertia
Starting point after Midterms:
Script Writing exercise:
The Sloth-Movement as a community
In our future a group of people chose to genetically modify themselves to be “sloth-hybrid” humans. These humans have a very slow metabolism, which is supposed to be the solution against climate change and scarcity of recources. Since a “Sloth-Person” only consumes about 130kcal per day their impact on the world to a minimum.
While the mainstream exhilarates with busyness and productivity, still driving humanity towards economical instabilities, societal inequalities and climate catastrophes, the sloth is living in balance and harmony with it’s surroundings. On a diet kept strictly to leaves they grow inside their appartments. the Terraniums they carry around fosters symbiotic life and feeds their plants, this means that they have next to no negative effect on their surroundings.
The sloth lifestyle started as a solution to global problems and crisis. But it started offering more: Unpredicted side effects such as solving things like purposelessness, types of depression and not being able to keep up with an evergrowing capitalistic world.
Ideas for the looks of a sloth person:
Ideas for the terrarium
AI generated ideas:
A sloth persons stomach(s)
Loose idea for what the sloth could sound like:
The sloth is not being portrayed as dumb and slow understanding, but as illuminated and measured. It is not speaking a lot and when it does, it takes it’s time.
The movie
A documentary that showcases the sloths lifestyle and it’s natural habitat. The sloth-person is beeing followed by an interviewer from the mainstream world with a light tone of disapproval. The viewer gets and insight on how the sloth copes with a day in it’s life. Very slowly.
In this “nature” documentary, David Attenborough meets “docuganda” – putting the sloth lifestyle in a bright light – while having a behind the scenes angle that shows the disgust of the still productive people.
What do we want to show the watcher?
The flaws of both worlds: total relaxation and pointless productivity. We highlight the loss of identity/humanity vs “over” individualism, and the idea that we can only come closer to nature/solve climate change by “engineering ourselves in a very unnatural way” โ the absurdity of the solution. The film acts as a mirror of their own feelings towards these worlds.
What does one gain by becoming a sloth?
What does one lose by becoming a sloth?
Road till Design Freeze
