Monthly Archives: December 2020

As i’m now thinking about figures for the essay at this point, I thought I should develop a diagram which illustrates how I broke down the profile to be ethnographically observed. When exploring how to analyse Instagram and what ethnographic … Continue reading →

The practice of recording images on screens has interested me for a while, now than I am deeper into my project, I am able to articulate it better. This concept explores the idea of representations in various contexts having various … Continue reading →

I have been collecting videos of AR filters glitching on my face for over a year now, just because I found them funny. When I started doing the facetune paintings, I enjoyed flitting between the original image and the edited … Continue reading →

I was so grateful to Lucy for checking over my rough first draft, I have been sick for the last three weeks so some of the sections were still in note form unfortunately. I would rather have given Lucy a … Continue reading →

A large aspect of my thesis has come together to reframe the phygital processes I am speaking about as a form of dress. This has linked a lot of my work together, from beauty and beautification, to asking ‘where is … Continue reading →

I built on the method I introduced at the start of the unit of breaking down my research question in to sub research categories – this was very useful and allows me to ensure it all flows together nicely.

As I’ve been writing my essay and particularly when writing up the phenomenology section, I have uncovered new ways of thinking about phygital. In the context of selfies, I realised that phygtial goes beyond the merging of physical and virtual … Continue reading →

I have been thinking about refining my title further as I feel it needs to include dress, which has become a primary focus – the dressing of the self in virtual realms. The new title is: New Materiality and dressing … Continue reading →

These are a select amount of embodied practice pieces that i’ve been engaging with, in each I am following specific types of framing, styles, gestures, poses, edits and expressions that I identified in my ethnographic observations. My findings are particularly … Continue reading →

The final group crit was useful, I used it to communicate my specific ideas in relation to new materialism in context of dress. I tried to specifically give exercises and examples which would engage the group as I’m aware that … Continue reading →