Week 4

4-1

( 1 ) Assignment 1 Demo Day

Week 4

4-2

( 2 ) To-do’s:

• I find it interesting to link "choreography" to "political." Interpreting the meaning of the vocabulary from the beginning and linking them together gave me the sense that the language was evolving. At first, Anne's letter gave me the feeling of combining too many things (or too sensitive?). Still, it also got me thinking that maybe all group activity, even group behavior, is a bit "political" under that definition.
  
  
• Everyone uses the playground in the same direction and the back-and-forth direction of the swimming pool. Are these political relationships between the facility's designer and the people who use it? Or should it be the inventor who invented the object? However, these objects or activities do make the group engage in certain behaviors in a regular manner. After thinking about these, I noticed an angle that I hadn't thought o before.
  
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• Other than that, like the paragraph mentioned, which talking about "crowd moving through a metro station on a busy morning, they tend to move in a certain direction and generate specific patterns of movement." This reminds me of a lot of times when we're so familiar with certain fixed movement patterns that we don't even realize we're doing it when we execute it. After taking a shower, grab a towel, dry your body and hair in the same direction, go back to your room and use your hair dryer while looking at your phone or computer and thinking about something else. We didn't pay attention to what we did in these processes.
  
  
• At the same time, it reminds me of the theory about ants: ants have almost no self-consciousness and serve the interests of the ant colony entirely. The entire ant colony seems to be alive with its collective consciousness. Before, I couldn't imagine what it meant to have "no self-consciousness," but when I think of such moving behavior, maybe this kind of creature is in this state most of the time. It seems that I can understand it a little better.
  
  
• In the end, I liked the question she left at the end of the letter.
  P.S.: Do atoms dance? Do flowers dance? Do birds dance? Do clouds dance? Do stars dance? We might be able to attribute the semblance of 'dancing' to them, but this is a human projection. Maybe our refusal to claim 'dancing' for these entities is due to the fact that they lack something humans are uniquely capable of: politics.
  
  
• After moving the dance away from "consciously performing this action", she focused the camera on other objects (or creatures). Focus on "politics" or whether there is a generalized controller of collective behavior.