Reading Notes- Arturo:

limitations lie more with the abilities and imaginations of the producers and users.

play the disc uninterrupted or branch off ==> like hyperlinks.

array/matrix- structure is required in some form- class, method, ect.

the computer and video technology- the primary medium

porcupine- it's all relative



Google search

Some operagoers in Paris complained that Viola’s work distracted from the efforts of the singers and players. I didn’t have that problem, although it took me a quarter hour or two to grow accustomed to the overlapping of onscreen and onstage action. Because the images move so slowly, they don’t impose a competing montage rhythm. Instead, they are subsumed by the flow of Wagner’s music. I found myself listening with heightened alertness, as if the film were bringing Wagner into sharper focus. The images seemed to arise from the subconscious of the score, from the mysterious nexus where words become notes. After all, there can be no better metaphor for the experience of listening to Wagner than a plunge into deep blue water.
Alex Ross on Viola's Wagner



Shelby's Notes about Research

Research is not about finding answers, its about finding questions.
Its messy! You won't find what you're looking for until you start to look for something else.
You have more ideas when you write them down than you do before you write them down. Research is protean, as soon as you have it, it changes shape. (Recursion) Seems like a time suck, but it is the only authentic way of proceeding. (Thesis, antithesis, synthesis)
The deliberate can be shallow and uninteresting compared to the spontaneous.
original idea: humans are incapable of randomness, we all make connections, the "randomness" is that we don't think anyone else sees the connection.

Respect your connections and "randomness"

Foyer of Moody Library from 11-2
Brian Alexander Keynote address at 2

Gloria's Class Notes:
“We have to diverge and converge….”-Dr. C
Structure confines unlike free class discussion where ideas flow. (For example, when you write papers, you need to find research for all your ideas)
“Book report mold”
“Grades are important but the most important thing you can learn in college is how to find problems”-Dr.C
Delicious-aimlessly surfing the web is not the point; it’s in depth research “Humans are incapable of randomness”
Whenever you think of something that’s random—it’s not random because you can make connections, but when other people hear it, they think it’s random because they do not instantly see the connections you made. –Shelby
Each one of us can think of an idea that nobody else has thought of, but when it’s said, it illuminates the idea in others’ heads—then they are able to make the connections.
Google hunt: “Bill Viola + blog”; part of the research process is to look for engaged responses