For my third World Changing article I chose a title under Business called “Seeing the Big Picture.” This reading was more of a call to action than the past two. This one and a half page reading had no pictures, so I was a little disappointed.
The articles main point is that only people can change the world; however, many people are comfortable in their state of ignorance when it comes to global issues. If it does not negatively affect them at that exact moment, it seems to be none of their business, not their problem. The way to draw people out of that place is through indicators. “Indicators measure critical information and contextualize it” (p 402). This means trend data morphed into visual keys. Simplifying data into visuals help people quickly understand what is going well and what will lead society to doom, it’s an immediate reaction trigger. These indicators clearly communicate what areas need the most change so people can act
A more advanced mode of information communication is systems models. These indicate cause and effect, linking a cluster of trends that do not seem like they match up but intertwine.
Unfortunately I think I more often than not fall into that lazy category. Saving the world is not high on my priority list, simply getting through the day to day, making sure I eat well, actually sleep, and get all my homework done are at the top. This is because they are right now. If I can’t get through this week why should I worry about the future? I am aware this is an extremely pessimistic, self-centered answer. Sometimes there is simply not enough time in the day to save the world too. This article did prove a point to me though, even if I felt like the article was using scare tactics. Looking back on what I have learned about global issues or problems in general is I am a visual learner. Graphs, chats, before and after pictures hit me harder than statistics. As artists and designers it is our job to create and be visual indicators. That is what I gleaned from this. My place is not in a lab or studying mathematical data, but being a visual informant.
In reading the article Doing the Right Thing Can Be Delicious, I found that “The United States produces more than twice the required daily caloric intake for every man, woman, and child, yet as many people in the United States go hungry as populate the entire country of Canada.” What does this say about our country? Is this the American dream? Does the U.S. need to always have this huge surplus of goods just incase everyone wins the lottery and is able to afford the goods and use them? This bit of the article made me disgusted with the way our food systems work. Not only are we wasting food, time, and energy, however we STILL have a huge amount of our country that is dying of starvation. How is this possible? Fast food is one of the answers given in the text. Fast food offers specific needs to society: convenience, low prices, great taste, and a surplus of food. As for ethical, environmental, and health beneficial – they do not cater to these ideas. No matter how many times people hear “McDonald’s is bad for you, it makes you fat, it’s a multi-billion-dollar corporation, it’ll give you a ba-donkie-donk butt, …” etc. People still go to McDonald’s. Even if they don’t want to support that company, they still go because it is usually their only option. We’ve never seen an organic restaurant labeled ‘fast food’. Organic food takes much longer to prepare, and is therefore more expensive and harder to come in contact with. American society is too busy and the economy is too poor for people to make moral environmental decisions. This puts our country in an extremely different place, because in order to get our morals straight, we have to change our priorities. People do not always like change. If someone cut all the phone lines in the country, there would be millions of pissed off Americans flooding the streets to D.C. and trying to protest. We get use to a certain standard of living, become accustomed to it, get attached to it, and then we cannot live without it! The result of this has already proven to be detrimental.
In reviewing my third article I chose the one titled Giving Well on page 355. The article talks that we have been programed from an early age that we are expected to give to those in need. As I attended a Catholic School I was very familiar with 'giving'. We were always either collecting food for a poor family or pennies to be given to someone in need. It felt like there was always a cause that we were collecting for; but then I suppose this is the nature of a religious base. So to me giving to others has always been part of my life. My father would pull money out of his wallet to hand to a man sitting on the ground in Detroit, with a sign saying anything will help.
It is most unfortunate that with the times being what they are, people are less apt to be giving to the poor when they are having financial problems themselves.
It is an awful situation that we are in. Our society is having overall difficulty which is evidenced by all those that are losing jobs and the medical benefits that accompany that job. They say it is getting better, but there are many that say, "It is not over for me".
It would be great if there were not any poverty in our world, but will the day ever come that the world will have no poverty???
This article was really interesting because I always wondered if any particular innovative technology could really sell in the market. The article shows how technologies like tracking someone with hand held devices and web applications meet with artists and integrate into something productive and intresting technology.
One intresting technology was "Hug Shirt". It says that one can send a signal with his cell phone to his loved ones who are wearing a special shirt and make them feel like they are being hugged. This fun and interesting technology has taken the idea of warmth and pressure of a real hug and manipulated onto a shirt.
Moreover, "Sonic City" is a technology that records environment's sounds and map it on to a audio processing of urban sounds. One can experience the noisy city sounds turning into a music as this program lays out different sounds into music records and make it possible to mix them up like djs. Also different version of program has similar idea. This program hears the surrounding noise and analyze the stress level of an individual with sound emitting devices embedded in a shirt.
Not all technologies with innovative ideas become a finalized products. It is the artists that embellishes the technolgies to make it user friendly. I hope to see more fun technolgoies like these in the future.
Art meets Technology Pg.97 Again, the writer suggests the artists to change the world here. He explained that Artists’ power to influence people is way greater than “a two hundred page report written by eminent sociologists can.” People from numerously different fields now use their skills to create objects that not only push the edge of innovative technology, but draws us to ask our relationship to it.
LOCA, Myriel Milicevic’s Neighborhood Satellites, microRevolt’s knitPro prove that I can change the world. I, as a minority asian, always have thought of America as a superior nation. That is why I found it very worth to challenge it.
The writer said something interested me. Sometimes, artists who work with technology prefer to call themselves engineers, architects, designers, or hackers. “Those who do define themselves a s artists usually operate outside contemporary art circles; you won’t find their work in contemporary art exhibitions, magazines, or galleries.” I have wanted to be Architect, and dislike to be, or be called “Artists”. When someone says his/her job is an Artist, I tend to think the one is creative, but also revolutionary, anti-conservatives, possibilities of smoking weed/marijuana, and violence. “Artists” tend to deliver the feeling to others that artists are always eager to change/influence the world, so they may be sometimes revolutionary and violent. Of course, I know it is not true, as an artist myself.
However, I will not be afraid to be called “artists” from now on. I will be the one that thinks beyond others under the name of my career “artist”.
World Changing- Response 3, Kellyann Wargo
ReplyDeleteFor my third World Changing article I chose a title under Business called “Seeing the Big Picture.” This reading was more of a call to action than the past two. This one and a half page reading had no pictures, so I was a little disappointed.
The articles main point is that only people can change the world; however, many people are comfortable in their state of ignorance when it comes to global issues. If it does not negatively affect them at that exact moment, it seems to be none of their business, not their problem. The way to draw people out of that place is through indicators. “Indicators measure critical information and contextualize it” (p 402). This means trend data morphed into visual keys. Simplifying data into visuals help people quickly understand what is going well and what will lead society to doom, it’s an immediate reaction trigger. These indicators clearly communicate what areas need the most change so people can act
A more advanced mode of information communication is systems models. These indicate cause and effect, linking a cluster of trends that do not seem like they match up but intertwine.
Unfortunately I think I more often than not fall into that lazy category. Saving the world is not high on my priority list, simply getting through the day to day, making sure I eat well, actually sleep, and get all my homework done are at the top. This is because they are right now. If I can’t get through this week why should I worry about the future? I am aware this is an extremely pessimistic, self-centered answer. Sometimes there is simply not enough time in the day to save the world too. This article did prove a point to me though, even if I felt like the article was using scare tactics. Looking back on what I have learned about global issues or problems in general is I am a visual learner. Graphs, chats, before and after pictures hit me harder than statistics. As artists and designers it is our job to create and be visual indicators. That is what I gleaned from this. My place is not in a lab or studying mathematical data, but being a visual informant.
In reading the article Doing the Right Thing Can Be Delicious, I found that “The United States produces more than twice the required daily caloric intake for every man, woman, and child, yet as many people in the United States go hungry as populate the entire country of Canada.” What does this say about our country? Is this the American dream? Does the U.S. need to always have this huge surplus of goods just incase everyone wins the lottery and is able to afford the goods and use them? This bit of the article made me disgusted with the way our food systems work. Not only are we wasting food, time, and energy, however we STILL have a huge amount of our country that is dying of starvation. How is this possible? Fast food is one of the answers given in the text. Fast food offers specific needs to society: convenience, low prices, great taste, and a surplus of food. As for ethical, environmental, and health beneficial – they do not cater to these ideas. No matter how many times people hear “McDonald’s is bad for you, it makes you fat, it’s a multi-billion-dollar corporation, it’ll give you a ba-donkie-donk butt, …” etc. People still go to McDonald’s. Even if they don’t want to support that company, they still go because it is usually their only option. We’ve never seen an organic restaurant labeled ‘fast food’. Organic food takes much longer to prepare, and is therefore more expensive and harder to come in contact with. American society is too busy and the economy is too poor for people to make moral environmental decisions. This puts our country in an extremely different place, because in order to get our morals straight, we have to change our priorities. People do not always like change. If someone cut all the phone lines in the country, there would be millions of pissed off Americans flooding the streets to D.C. and trying to protest. We get use to a certain standard of living, become accustomed to it, get attached to it, and then we cannot live without it! The result of this has already proven to be detrimental.
ReplyDeleteIn reviewing my third article I chose the one titled Giving Well on page 355. The article talks that we have been programed from an early age that we are expected to give to those in need. As I attended a Catholic School I was very familiar with 'giving'. We were always either collecting food for a poor family or pennies to be given to someone in need. It felt like there was always a cause that we were collecting for; but then I suppose this is the nature of a religious base. So to me giving to others has always been part of my life. My father would pull money out of his wallet to hand to a man sitting on the ground in Detroit, with a sign saying anything will help.
ReplyDeleteIt is most unfortunate that with the times being what they are, people are less apt to be giving to the poor when they are having financial problems themselves.
It is an awful situation that we are in. Our society is having overall difficulty which is evidenced by all those that are losing jobs and the medical benefits that accompany that job. They say it is getting better, but there are many that say, "It is not over for me".
It would be great if there were not any poverty in our world, but will the day ever come that the world will have no poverty???
Art Meets Technology p96
ReplyDeleteThis article was really interesting because I always wondered if any particular innovative technology could really sell in the market. The article shows how technologies like tracking someone with hand held devices and web applications meet with artists and integrate into something productive and intresting technology.
One intresting technology was "Hug Shirt". It says that one can send a signal with his cell phone to his loved ones who are wearing a special shirt and make them feel like they are being hugged. This fun and interesting technology has taken the idea of warmth and pressure of a real hug and manipulated onto a shirt.
Moreover, "Sonic City" is a technology that records environment's sounds and map it on to a audio processing of urban sounds. One can experience the noisy city sounds turning into a music as this program lays out different sounds into music records and make it possible to mix them up like djs. Also different version of program has similar idea. This program hears the surrounding noise and analyze the stress level of an individual with sound emitting devices embedded in a shirt.
Not all technologies with innovative ideas become a finalized products. It is the artists that embellishes the technolgies to make it user friendly. I hope to see more fun technolgoies like these in the future.
Art meets Technology Pg.97
ReplyDeleteAgain, the writer suggests the artists to change the world here. He explained that Artists’ power to influence people is way greater than “a two hundred page report written by eminent sociologists can.” People from numerously different fields now use their skills to create objects that not only push the edge of innovative technology, but draws us to ask our relationship to it.
LOCA, Myriel Milicevic’s Neighborhood Satellites, microRevolt’s knitPro prove that I can change the world. I, as a minority asian, always have thought of America as a superior nation. That is why I found it very worth to challenge it.
The writer said something interested me. Sometimes, artists who work with technology prefer to call themselves engineers, architects, designers, or hackers. “Those who do define themselves a s artists usually operate outside contemporary art circles; you won’t find their work in contemporary art exhibitions, magazines, or galleries.” I have wanted to be Architect, and dislike to be, or be called “Artists”. When someone says his/her job is an Artist, I tend to think the one is creative, but also revolutionary, anti-conservatives, possibilities of smoking weed/marijuana, and violence. “Artists” tend to deliver the feeling to others that artists are always eager to change/influence the world, so they may be sometimes revolutionary and violent. Of course, I know it is not true, as an artist myself.
However, I will not be afraid to be called “artists” from now on. I will be the one that thinks beyond others under the name of my career “artist”.