Project #9 Data Portrait

Description

Every TIME That I See "Her" I Get Lost

During these stressful and uncertain times, many social, physical, and mental activities and routines are disrupted. These days, I don't live in time anymore. Time is the last thing that I care about. However, I can see it goes fast. Everyday, I wake up at a different time, pack my stuff and go to the library and get my coffee from the library's coffee shop. For the purpose of this assignment, I started to track the time that I wake up, time that I leave the house, and the time that I get my coffee. Still, It didn't make the time meaningful for me. But, I have noticed that the only moments the time exists is when I feel I lost in it. The time is when I see "her" studying next to me or I talking to her! :)

Design Process

The design started with tracking of four personal habits to create a data-self portrait. After collecting the data on Excel Worksheet and before I put it in p5.js, I used jsonlint.com website to validate the code and typying the right syntax.    

   

Reflection

We live in an increasingly digital world. Data portraits and its depiction of subject's accumulated data rather than their faces was an interesting exercise. It raised questions about privacy, control, aesthetics, and social cognition. These questions become increasingly important as more of our interactions occur online, where we exist as data not bodies. I found this data depiction as a kind of language that explores and reveals the relationship between our social life and technology. By making it apparent, you can see how "your body is transformed into a computational device" (Marisa Parham). Using time-based medium in the code and scheduling events and actions to place at very specific time that they happen in our life helped me to understand how these data bodies extended in time, reaching into the past, and rendering of our future actions.