((Finally))

I want to use a blurb book (blurb.com) and digital narrative format to explore what it means to do a digital narrative. I am so interested by the changes and shifts going on in technology. I used to do narrative sequences through traditional photography processes and as my first digital narrative, I want to have both a digital work and an analogue work displaying the same digital art as an example of a move in tradition. It will be an exploration of if/how a work can exist both digitally and materially and convey the same meaning, or if interactivity plays too large a role in digital narratives for the same concept to show through in both mediums. I have been thinking a lot about the concept of existence and space. Where and how a work exists seems to be such a deep rooted concept in art and I would like to explore the issues that arise with how a piece is displayed. I have purchased my domain name for the work (www.artographical.com). For the content of the piece, I want to stay consistent with the exploration of technology. I have been collecting text messages I have received over the past few months, writing them down, knowing I have been wanting to do something with the concept of text messaging. I find the fact that sending letters or knocking on neighbors doors for communication is a fairly dead concept. While visiting a friend of mine, I witnessed him text his roommate who was in the room next to him. The communication intermediary the cell phone plays between people is something I find amazing. Face to face personal contact is not needed anymore. Online dating, chat rooms, cell phones, technology. These ideas are what I want to base my work on. How communication made a technological advancement. I want to portray it in a slightly sarcastic way. I think the content I have in mind will pose as interesting in both digital narrative form and in the book I create and I can't wait to see what visual and conceptual challenges it will create.