Behind Element 79

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The User Compatibility of Element 79 - Increasing our Exposure

The Rollover image is best viewed on Blackberry smartphones because of the cursor key

iPhones allow the Rollover image to be viewed in full

Both smartphones play the videos in good quality

Sam and I ensured that during the distribution process we could accept the notifications of our collaborators joining the facebook group on our smartphones; to reduce the delay in contact. 

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And Finally...

Thank you all once more for participating, perhaps this will form the start of future collaborations! If any of you are interested in seeing the development work in full for this project, you can find all the information on our Google+ Accounts. We hoped you enjoyed taking part!

RCAD & RECKLESS

Robbie: https://plus.google.com/116764889714950195240/posts

Sam: https://plus.google.com/104814039201341042888/posts

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Just a few out-takes of us having a giggle. Enjoy!

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Our Fellow collaborators for the Element 79 project.

http://www.element-79.tumblr.com (password: hashtech503) http://behind-element-79.tumblr.com

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The theory behind Element 79. A student project based upon the Sociological notions of Agency, an experiment devised to observe the act of participation. http://www.element-79.tumblr.com (password: hashtech503) http://behind-element-79.tumblr.com

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We received a lovely email from someone who had found one of our golden nuggets and had uploaded a picture. The fact she had taken time out of her day to collaborate with us by finding, breaking open her nugget and then uploading an image. Then emailing us to tell us how it had positively effected her day, made us feel like our project was really worth while and had made an impact on those who had found our hidden gems.

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Facebook page that curious finders are greeted with, giving them instructions of what to do with their discovered treasure..

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The production line. The Process we went through to create our nuggets before distribution. 

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just a quick reminder of the idea behind our nuggets, the colour gold was chosen to due to its affiliation with rarity and treasure we felt that this would be instantly eye catching and would spark initial interest and curiosity from the finder. the kinder surprise is an element that is designed to take the finder back to the childhood, opening up the capsule to find the toy within, interacting further with the object. Each capsule was the holder of an individual piece of our bigger picture, for the curious finder to discover and post.

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This is a screenshot of the original idea of having 100 individual pieces to distribute. We then changed the number to 50, whilst still keeping the same message. we changed this for practical reasons after realising creating 100 golden nuggets would have been costly and time consuming.

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Summary of project

Our intention is to devise an experiment which will give us, the Agents, an insight into the act of participation. We will use objects to distribute our message. The handmade golden nuggets will be the carriers of individual fragments of a text file which reads: Together Everyone Achieves More. Through the use of the online platform Facebook, our participants can become part of our bigger picture by posting photos of their unique piece to us. We will provide our participants with clear instructions for this task. We depend upon the collaboration of our participants to communicate this message. The Facebook page will be a catalogue of the responses which we will collect and re-arrange in their original order. This resulting image will be displayed on a separate website and shared with our collaborators. This experiment will visually communicate the outcomes of working as a TEAM.

  P O T E N T I A L  E N V I R O N M E N T A L  F A C T O R S

    With regard to a reflective evaluation of our project, we have identified the following potential factors that could have led to the non-return of all the pieces of our bigger picture:

Removal by Library Staff

Disposal by cleaning staff

Object lost after being found

Instruction tag may have been detached

One could argue that due to the limited number of objects and the intention of the project having a secretive element, the lack of knowledge about the premise of the experiment could have led to the lack of responses. In future reproductions, if the message was divided into more pieces with more message carriers, the project may have more success with more people knowing about it and wanting to find one thus being part of it.