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Assignment 02 Final Work + Statement:

Based on the previous work from the assignment 1 - Poster with an idea of "Human Glitch" --- How human can glitch and how the current system is making human being glitch. Deepening the research, I collected several scholar and non-formal article discussing the difference between human, and robot, According to Manoj Kumar Srirangam 's article - "Are we becoming less human and more robot", the major differences between humans and robots are that human is the one containing multiple emotions, thoughts, feelings whereas robots only contains computer generated decisions, or let's say 1s and 0s, true and false. From the article (Major difference between robots and human) states that the major difference can also be that robots can be reprogramed to fit the certain requirement.

For the major project I have decided to continue working on the original concept from the poster --- "The human are one step away from becoming a robot, and we are one step away from preventing it".

As what was mentioned above, the difference of robots and humans are rather significant, how can human in any chance becomes a robot?

Humans live under the world which in fact, a very subtle system, some may call it - the Maslow's hierarchy of needs - in which human attempts to obtain satisfaction from the bottom level of the pyramid, and once a particular level is completely obtained, they move up into the next one. The system itself seems to be repetitive for each individuals, it also contains flaws, and interference which is in fact turning us into robots:

Money and Fame: Money and Fame are interelated, as fame brings money, and money can create fame. Human beings contains natural needs, or requirements over money as it can be traded with almost all of the physical items that will satisfy the need of the pyramid. Because of that there exists a rather strong desire to acquire as much money as possible, which fills up their brains with countless possible way of acquiring a significant amount. A famous quote goes: "Everyone has a price", and if the price has met, humans becomes robot which follow orders and execute without hesitation.

Work: Works are always repetitive, in a certain way. It can be explained as using certain part of the knowledge to complete the required task. Working is totally optional however, works generate money, and according to the Maslow's hierarchy of needs, even the very bottom level of the pyramid requires money. Therefore work becomes inevitable, repetitive, and as boredom strikes, human becomes numb and gradually loses ambition, energy, emotions etc. and thus becomes a emotionless robot.

Politics and freedom of Speech Politics bring discipline, and order, however as it introduces additional "True" and "False" which is in fact relative, it limits what people think, what people do and what people say. The lack of freedom of mind and speech will reduce the ability to maintain personal mind and critical thinking, and thus slowing turning human into a mindless robot.

In the major project, after researching several glitch artist including Andy Denzler, Clement Valla, and Ferruccio Laviani, several images are selected representing each of the system failure that is turning humans into robot - money, fame, work, politics and freedom of speech, and each carefully modified in terms of creative digital glitch representing the failure of the particular element within the system and the fact that glitch can always fixed.

Bibliography:

- Manoj Kumar Srirangam:   "Are we becoming less human and more robotic?"   Source:  http://www.civilserviceindia.com/subject/Essay/are_we_becoming_less_human_and_more_robotic4.html

- "the major difference between human and robot"   Source:   http://www.robotster.org/entry/major-difference-between-robot-and-human/

- Andy Denzler   Source:   http://www.andydenzler.com/html/paintings/136.html

- Clement Valla   "Glitch in a form of altering reality"   Source: https://40.media.tumblr.com/bcec6cfdcb7be3e5fa6ce96217aa4a57/tumblr_nt414hw9q71upwf6xo1_500.png

- Ferruccio Laviani   "Good Vibration"   Source:   http://www.laviani.com

- Rosa Menkman   "The Glitch Momentum"   Source:   http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/no-04-the-glitch-momentum-rosa-menkman/

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More experiment over reality / digital glitch

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More experiment over digital glitch --- color glitch effect

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Glitch Experiment --- Trying different types of Digital Glitch 

Images Source: http://www.deviantart.com/art/Censorship-86831505

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Assignment 02 Research

Title: Are we becoming less human and more robotic?

Author: Manoj Kumar Srirangam

Human being is the one who has multiple emotions, thoughts, feelings etc. whereas a robot such as a computer or any electronic device which thinks, feels, and behaves with a prefixed guidance or program set by the human being itself. No machine in the world acts by its own but a human being acts as per its whims and fancies. The transformation of man from stone age to today's highly advanced technological age is only because of his own mind power. Human being is making the things or inventing the things like computer or a mechanical/automated robot as per his/her convenience such as to make the work easier and to save the precious time, mainly to utilize his/her time to its fullest length possible. If the era of human beings end, then there will be nothing on this planet earth to work. Human resource is the best resource and the primary resource which can make use of any other resource on the earth. It seems as if the human being is behaving like a robot but the fact is that he/she is not becoming robotic day by day but making the physical world to be robotic in all the aspects, for instance, if we consider the man who lived in the stone age never liked to live with the stones rather he tried to mold those stones into useful articles and he succeeded in doing that by inventing hand-held weapons to hunt animals for his livelihood, and as the days passed away he transformed himself into a highly intellectual species on the earth and universe as a whole.

   It is not that human beings forgot the human nature but the thing is that the human beings are using their intelligence to invent more and more things as per their necessity, it is true that necessity is the mother of invention, but the only unfortunate thing is, man is using his brain to invent automated things rather than the things which are non-robotic, for example, now man is able to create new seeds or modify the seeds(genetically modified) given by the nature and making them artificial, of course, man used all the natural things and now heading towards inventing artificial things by transforming natural things into unnatural ones and in the mean time he is unable to notice that he is becoming robotic in trying to invent highly automated machines.

   Man is also forgetting that he is destroying environment and making it unsustainable, here we can quote the global warming or climate change as a true or live example to declare that man is becoming more robotic and less human. Inventing robots is not a sin but making ourselves automated by being in the passion of inventing man like robots is not acceptable. Robots may act like man but they never become humans, and simultaneously, man may make robots but he cannot become a robot unless he fails to realize that he is a human being.

   A man is man and a robot is a robot. Man cannot be a robot and robot cannot be a man. Man may sometimes act like a robot, but he is not a robot. It is true that man is becoming more robotic but he always thinks like a man by his own. Man may forget about morals for sometimes but one day or the other he realizes that he is a human being, whereas a robot never.

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Assignment 02 Research

I have decided to keep researching on what I’ve done for the first assignment --- human glitch, the research is pretty closely related to human but anyways 

Here’s article about the major difference between human and robot:

Source Page:

http://www.robotster.org/entry/major-difference-between-robot-and-human/

“the major differences between robots and humans:

1) Emotions and feelings

2) Structure, construction and mechanism

3) Thinking capability

4) Requirements for survival

5) Programing and Re-programing

6) Power to harm or destroy

7) Human create robot, robots don’t give life to human

8) Functioning of human and robots

”

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Practice Research/Experiment -- Glitch over computer

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Assignment 1 Reflection

My topic for assignment 1 is glitch, and I made a poster about “Human Glitch” where an image of the back of the human body gradually transferred into a robot showing the fact that we are on the tipping point of losing the very element that makes us human -- feelings 

This work however, is very conceptual and can’t be directly seen from the image itself, it needs explanation to fully express the whole idea behind it. Plus there are not many artists attempting to do the similar topic but more focused on Reality glitch which limited the ability for me to research and document. And the idea is pretty direct thus not a lot of experiment is performed.

For assignment 2 I plan to move forward on the idea of the reality glitch, and will experiment on the assignment 1 work to see if more can be obtained. I’m thinking about brining in the programming and visual images / sound. Better start now.

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Assignment 1 Statement

Glitch comes in many ways, from Computer glitch / Game glitch which is the most common, to an intentional glitch artwork created to express certain interesting idea or concept.

Glitches exist everywhere, even among ourselves. One particular type of glitch caught my eyes: reality glitch --- taking a real/sureal image and use editing method to create a non-realistic reality which contains personal feeling / Story / or ideas.

my work focuses on one aspect: human glitch, but how can a human glitch?

What makes humans different from other creatures on Earth, or say the aspects of people being humans are the existance of the psychological, mental reactions towards a certain theme or object --- emotions and feelings, sorrow, anger, love, jealousy, happiness etc.

Extremely high intelligent robots could be extremely similar to a human being, they could even have the exact human skin, or human face, or an stereotype of a human body. They could be smarter than humans, have the exact brain thinking ability, but what they will lack of, will be the feeling that can only exist inter-humanly.

However, the current system is making human "Glitch", People have the exact same routine everyday - work, eat, sleep, repeat, for so many different reasons - money, fame, etc. . Living in a repeatitive environment or It is rather al from the external enviroment: Censorship, inequality, Politics, Lacking freedom of speech etc.. they start gradually losing their personal feelings. And if it is preserved for a significant amount of time, the presence of the very element that makes us human, will be gone. That, turns us into nothing but just like a robot.

As in the poster, the back of a male model appears to have half of the body glitching into a metal robot skeleton, and from the other angle, half of the robot skeleton appears to be glitching to a human form. It looks simple but it reminds people that: We, human beings, are just one step away from being in a emotionless robot. And we are one step away from preventing it from happening.

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Assignment 01 Final Work --- Human Glitch

When humans glitch, they become robots.

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Setting up the scene for my final poster :)

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Glitch Research and Planning

My topic for the assignment is glitch, after doing some research over glitch artworks, reality glitch caught my eyes.

Reality glitch is one type of artwork where artists use an real image, either photography or graphical renders and use editing methods to alter the reality to not only create an unreal effect but also expressing artists’ concept and ideas.

Instead of spending tons to time to do a fancy glitch image with limited / no meanings I decided to keep it simple so that it can show off the concept behind it. The theme I’m going to do is called “Human Glitch” and I’m using my 3D render techniques to do a simple image and then edit it. 

What do I mean by human glitch? -- Find it in my final statement! 

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Glitch study --- Reality glitch --- painting by Andy Denzler

Swiss visual artist Andy Denzler’s work moves between abstraction and reality. These glitch paintings sort of feel like distant memories, buried in the subconscious or snap shots of dreams.

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Hiroshi Kawano, Design 2-1, Markov Chain Pattern (1964)

Glitch based on a mathematical pattern

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from Postcards From Google Earth by Clement Valla (2011)

*Glitch in a form of altering reality*

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Ferruccio Laviani, “Good Vibrations”

Italian architect Ferruccio Laviani designed the “Good Vibrations” cabinet as part of the 2013 Furniture Exhibition for Italian manufacturer Fratelli Boffi, capturing the aesthetic of glitch IRL.

Glitch art can be productive to inspire new forms of architecture and sculpture.

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Want to know more about glitching? Possibly turning it into a serious art pursuit? May I suggest:

No. 04: The Glitch Moment(um), Rosa Menkman

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The Venacular of File Formats

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