PROTOCOLS FOR PROJECTING
The act of visually or audibly manifesting fragments of data and of ourselves into the atmosphere- or of the atmosphere- fostering relations between data, bodies, and sky in the past, present, and critical future scenarios.
Why Projecting?
While hacking and gathering are necessary and powerful parts of interacting with the atmosphere, projecting is what draws the line between simply collecting, and sending something back out- projections of ourselves intertwined with the data we collect. Projecting represents the convergence of data, bodies, thought, and redirection. It is, in a way, a category of its own as well as an assemblage of other protocols. Like all other protocols, these are simple guidelines, completely open to interpretation and reinterpretation.
How do we Project ourselves in an Atmosphere?
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Projecting Sound: sending the sounds collected from satellites back out as radio broadcasts, as musically-altered pieces, or even parts of weather forecasts.
▷ Projecting Image: projecting drawings and gathered data out in the open. On buildings, on screens, in exhibits and shows, in public spaces, for people to see.
▷ Speculating. Projecting does not only include the heard and seen, but also includes projecting our thoughts and feelings into the future, i.e., speculating. Through our understanding of the past, the present, and the convergence of all this knowledge, speculating into critical and potential future scenarios directs our intentions into actions, our work into potential realities, and creates patterns of analysis and a critical understanding of how things that happen today do not cease to exist tomorrow.
▷ Projecting Image: projecting drawings and gathered data out in the open. On buildings, on screens, in exhibits and shows, in public spaces, for people to see.
▷ Speculating. Projecting does not only include the heard and seen, but also includes projecting our thoughts and feelings into the future, i.e., speculating. Through our understanding of the past, the present, and the convergence of all this knowledge, speculating into critical and potential future scenarios directs our intentions into actions, our work into potential realities, and creates patterns of analysis and a critical understanding of how things that happen today do not cease to exist tomorrow.
Conversation on a Tablecloth, Sitia, Crete