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I missed a class and now I don't know what this project should ideally be like, but I made this.

A map of meshed times and places, a glimpse of 11 days of my life meshed into 19 secs.

How many lines are overlapped? Where exactly have I been? Do I live the same days over and over again? Can you tell?

Colleen Woolpert

April 4th, 2018
4:30


I was really excited to go to Colleen's talk when I heard about her works, firstly, because having a twin has always sounded mystery and amazing to me as the single child; also because her concept is about optical illusions,  and it sounds interesting.

Colleen and her twin were born in Halloween--just imagine the fun they've had! I don't know why, but after I got this info about her, everything she talks about and presents just became even more mysterious. Colleen expressed the identity confusion she and her twin had when they were little: she was curious and confused about who exactly she is int his world, and the question "who am I" has always existed. Her twin does not have binocular vision, and it becomes the biggest essential difference between Colleen and her sister, and because of this magical relationship with her twin, she says that she is "able to see doubles". Colleen has grown interest in optical illusions and the "motion picture machines" called "mutoscopes" from almost 200 years ago, and started to make things that resemble this machine: a kind of glasses (I forgot the name for them) that makes you see the images in its "3-D" version. Personally, I think this idea is awesome. Photographers are always seen as people who only capture a flat side of reality, but the truth is more like images can be bent to trick our own eyes, and photographers should not be limited to only emphasizing the flatness of the world, but also should be emphasizing the way human perceive reality: is it real, is it not? is it flat, is it not?

Simulation

Here is a diagram of my life in the past 2 days. Traces of the places I have been--Monday in green, Tuesday in red. 

I think if I keep this going, maybe using some app in my phone to trace my everyday movement, in some way this is my life/history's simulator?

"It is no longer a question of imitation, nor of reduplication, nor even of parody. I t is rather a question of substituting signs of the real for the real itself, that is, an operation to deter every real process by its operational double, a metastable, programmatic, perfect descriptive ma- chine which provides all the signs of the real and short-circuits all its vicissitudes.  " --page4

If my phone traces all the places I have been for me, presents my life for me, day after day, and all of the traces are recorded, then I do not have to live the real life anymore, my phone can substitute my life for me, in the map that's inside of the digital world. The phone takes over me and reduplicated me  in another "real" world.