MA Musings

"Vintage block" Collaboration with Deepart (J.Hewitt 2018) It has been very difficult to get back to thinking about the major project after the excitement of the group project and the epic construction task in the pattern processes module. Although everything is interconnected, and many sections of the research and development of the other modules will impact on this final piece, I fear I rather suffered from cognitive overload and found getting intensly involved in several projects at once (to say nothing of working and selling my house) very draining. I really don't want to end up just creating a fashion collection based on Deepart AI drawings... the literary research I am doing on neural systems and machine learning is just so fascinating, I want to do justice to the big concepts involved. I accept this is probably just my own personal desire to do something new and meaningful, but as I am reading more of Margaret Bodens work and becoming aware of H creativity...

I created the final presentation in Google Slides adding information and pictures from the website and videos and research poster, while also bearing in mind the additional information and suggestions of what to include, that were given in the last session. Google slides has been great to work with as a team, because I simply put place holders in till the others could update with the pictures or 3D motion captures that only they had access to. I also wrote a first draft "script" and uploaded to our shared drive so everyone could rewrite their sections in their own words. I tried to break it up into short sections for interest so different voices could maintain interest. We were scheduled for the end of the session and I knew peoples attention spans would be flagging by then. We had a lot of information to get through and we wanted to give people a real sense of not only our experience but the product and the brief as well. We met up on the Monday to have a quick rea...

Transitions2 Huddersfield University April 2018 The culmination of all the work! The conference was absolutely fascinating, I attended on both days to assist the management and organisational team. The talks were extremely varied in subject matter as was to be expected from the breadth of conference themes. I engaged particularly with the academic papers, noting not only the content but how each was structured and presented. It was of great value to have so many different styles in a short period of time and to note what was particularly engaging in the power points (short video clips, vibrant images) and what I found hard to maintain focus for (extensive text that simply repeated the speakers words) Sign posting the content at the beginning of the talk and also keeping to time.   Transitions2 Posters Huddersfield University April 2018 I was slightly surprised at how badly over time many of the speakers went, especially considering people tend to talk faste...