Category Archives for EROFT
EROFT: Final – #EchoChamber
For my final, I decided to continue iterating on what I did with Meditation 4, the performative twitter #EchoChamber. I originally created a slide show where I handpicked current trends in the media on twitter, whcih a few days ago … Continue reading
EROFT: Meditation 4
What does it mean to communicate in a collective sense? I think of our networked selves, the twitter feed as the new greek chorus, collective twitter groups that speak but are seen as singular (ex: “black twitter”). I scraped several … Continue reading
EROFT: Meditation 3
This week I combined selenium web browsing with scraping and NLP to create a wikipedia prophecy generator, or wiki-omancy. When thinking about “-omancy” possibilities I broke down the typical structure – it involves some user input/action, some randomness, and a … Continue reading
EROFT: Meditation 2
Invent your own “oracle deck.” Your deck doesn’t have to be a physical object (though it can be). Keeping in mind the formal characteristics of cleromancy discussed in class, consider how digital media can complicate/diminish/augment the parts and processes of … Continue reading
EROFT: Meditation 1
I’ll be the first to say that my ritual is rather…boring. But if there’s anything I learned during my time in anthropology, it’s the things we find the most mundane that tell us the most about our value systems and … Continue reading