2. Digital bodies¶

What the week looked like¶

This week has been super exciting with all the amazing material and equipment exploration i got to do. Have been wanting to learn how to use the in-house Lasercutter and 3D printers for more than 2 years now, and this week's exercise was the perfect excuse.

It was also a very humbling last few days, with the continued struggle with my website. However, the good news is that lessons have been learnt and i THINK i have figured out an ideal workflow, henceforth.

Takeaway from Global Session¶

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Checklist for the week¶

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Personal thoughts & Ideas¶

Bodies, in general has been a topic of interst for me for more than a decade. And this week's theme to think deeper about it has been extremely interesting.

After the global session, i had a clear idea of directions i wanted to look at. To begin with, i wanted to do something related to my body (exploration of which has been part of several of my personal projects). I was sure i wanted to work with Scans of my hands, my head and my torso.

This week i wanted to attempt a creative exploration of representation of physical bodies by bringing together a constant play between digital and tactile.

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For the Theme of Digital Bodies, i wanted to look at what is it that the body meant to me, especially a "DIGITAL" body.

What exactly is a Digital Body to begin with? Is is something that is created digitally? Could it be something that exists online in the digital realm? Would it also mean my digital footprint? Have i already existed digitally? And i am already a Digital Body then, so to speak?

Dwelling into all of these possibilities, especially the fact that my Digital Data and Self aren't safe (no thanks to the lack of policies around Digital Safelty), there was a song that kept repeating in my mind by Peter Gabriel called 'My Body is a Cage'.

Some sinnepets of the lyrics go as follows:

My Body is a cage But my mind holds the Key I'm standing on a stage Of fear and self-doubt It's a hollow play Still shapes fill my head Set my spirit free

Big Idea : Body as Cage