Illusion of Life: Week 1 - Reflection

This week I was paired up with Ika, who provided me with interesting insight into my own creative interests! The project she designed for me was a gated narrative, due largely to my interest in developing my own storylines. As I have no practical experience in making games or interactive works, I found this  very intriguing. One of the key aspects of the idea was that of smaller, almost vignette-eque narrative pockets within a larger piece. I found this both engaging as a narrative structure, and freeing for me as a creative. Although I am not convinced that my work this semester will be geared toward an interactive medium, will definitely take this part of the concept forward into my work this semester. 

Start:

Interfacing with a real person helped me to consider new directions. It provided me with insight into my own thinking and creative processes. As a by-and-large introspective worker, I find it refreshing and incredibly useful to externalize ideas and collaborate. I want to start interacting more with my peers, and using the experience of others as fuel for creation and ideation. 

Stop:

This exercise forced me to embrace my creative impulses. As a practitioner, I have a habit of overthinking my ideas, and discarding concepts before ever really starting them – something I should definitely stop. 

Keep:

The iterative cycle exercise has many parallels with how I generate work. I start by idly sketching or generating a multitude of ideas based off impulse, and this practice showed me how valuable those impulses can be. I want to try to conduct the iterative cycle exercise again with a more focused intention. In particular, I am interested in examining conditioning and impulse. I will keep generating responses with these broad ideas as a focus concept.