After the feedback that I received from my AR illustration, it’s come to my attention that some of the meaning behind my project has been lost in my quest for interactivity. I want to make sure that for my final project the meaning is clear and the that interactive element of my illustration is able to work together with the content to deliver my ideas.
As such, it’s back to the drawing board. I start by going back to look at my research; I look at what inspired me initially and think about what i really want to do with my final project. Ultimately, what I want to do is express this idea that there is no such thing as privacy in a digital space, instead only perceived privacy, like John Suler talked bout in his book Photographic Psychology. I want people to think about digital surveillance and the implications of data farming.
I started by just messing around with some visual concepts to express this idea and help me figure out what I want.
I think one serious problem that I had with a lot of my designs was that I was sort of representing a digital audience as aliens or sort of otherworldly creature, and by doing this I was automatically demonising them. However, I don’t want my project to be some sort of PSA that paints the situation in black and white or create this sort of horror scenario. Ultimately, I want people to come up with the disturbing implications on their own and see the act for what it is rather than try to exaggerate the situation. In my opinion, it’s more disturbing to me to think about a heap of normal, everyday people spying on me than some sort of digital monster.
While this last concept is a little bit closer to what I’m thinking about it’s not quite there. I also need to keep in mind how I’m going to bring interactivity into the mix when I decide on the visual storytelling of my final pieces.
alicia hempsted 