my bold mind / my draft by Chongyu Zhu https://padlet.com/2470441/zzzhuchongyu made with ♥ en-us 2021-09-27 15:29:56 UTC 2025-10-27 21:45:36 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f921.png The successful digital media work 2470441 https://padlet.com/2470441/zzzhuchongyu/wish/1771593821 https://www.2ra.co/tmiwfull.html

This artwork displays its sales value [GBP] that is calculated nightly offline by complex algorithms called "the endorsers". The endorsers study social media, pricing sites, and many other resources including the financial markets. They apply adjustments to the calculated price based on the age, gender, race, and sexuality of the artist.  #algorithmic_bias Within the gallery the artwork price fluctuates through live streams (number of visitors) to social media (e.g. Twitter) and responding to audience behaviour. The artwork monitors the audience via 2 IP cameras and collates the data on the internet. ​This work was hand-built and programmed entirely by women (Rachel Ara and the neon blower, Julie Bickerstaff @ NeonUnity),  referencing industries where women are often excluded.

why I think it's successful

This hybrid, sociopolitical artwork involves a few issues like feminism (referring to the provenance of neon - sex trade, and women experts practicing in the fields led by men), misinformation (referring to the application of complex coding which is used in investment banking to hide money), as well as data-mining, outsourcing skills, and conspiracies of silence. 
As a rich and wide body of work, This Much I'm Worth leads to deeper thinking among viewers and mature artists. Rachel Ara has also improved the original concept in the year 2016 into a larger and more interactive digital work.
]]> 2021-09-27 15:37:08 UTC https://padlet.com/2470441/zzzhuchongyu/wish/1771593821 Reading list 2470441 https://padlet.com/2470441/zzzhuchongyu/wish/1771600759 1. Hitchcock, Alfredo. Rear Window. 1954.

2. Fantasia (1940) & Fantasia 2000 (2000). Walt Disney Feature Animation.

3. Clouzot, Henri-Georges. Le mystère Picasso. 1956.

4. Orlowski, Jeff. The Social Dilemma. Netflix, 9 Sept. 2020.

5. Chicago, Judy. The Dinner Party: A Symbol of Our Heritage. Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1979.]]> 2021-09-27 15:39:01 UTC https://padlet.com/2470441/zzzhuchongyu/wish/1771600759 The lecture (thoughts stream) 2470441 https://padlet.com/2470441/zzzhuchongyu/wish/1771627781
I don't think there's any necessity to agree or disagree since all different voices deserve to exist.

· cross-cultural sensitivity: European people are more open in behavior than Asian people. For example, European people talk and/or do more naturally about sex, which Asian people are shy about in general.

· ethnocentric orientation - ethnorelative worldview
In the old days when the world was not connected so closely, people only learnt about their own culture. So everyone was 井底之蛙 and thought his culture as the best. [Ignorance results in arrogance.] But now we can see easily what's happening on the other side of the world. We've known how different the cultures can be and how small everyone is. To some extent, the ethnorelative stages mean that people accept that we are not different from insects actually.
 (Selfishness, as human nature, appears more obviously at the ethnocentric stages.)

· people are all different and all want to be liked
I am different because I don't really care about being liked or not. However, we need friends and many different relationships in this life. Even if we don't care or we don't like everybody, to build up the relationship, we have to accept and share the difference. It is the way to make the world better. Also, to know about the difference is to recognise oneself as well.
Actually, in the super international city London, most people are openminded and are careful with the issue of racism. As Chinese, I wouldn't feel very often being discriminated against. However, in the common Chinese culture, as far as I know, people are still close-minded to other cultures and the race difference. Even gender difference is still obvious, let alone sexual orientation. In mainland China, people don't really dare to be different from their group generally. Many people are still afraid of "becoming themselves".
Once you become yourself/create your own culture, you wouldn't care about who likes you or who doesn't.

· British culture?
Out of the lack in history knowledge, I still don't understand the positive side of British culture. Compared with some other European countries like France or Italy, British culture seems boring. British language is not as rich as some latin languages, either. All I know is that Great Britain looted so much in the world and seems still living on looting.

· about self identification [stupidness warning]
I am a 23-year-old Chinese woman. I always preferred to identify myself as a girl, which I know is not that important. But I guess white girls, or even black girls, at my age usually prefer to be identified as women. To be honest, I don't feel anything about black women while I hate some white women. Because I feel nothing about black men either while I like white men generally. Since white women are "women", I have to grow up from girl to woman as well. That's it.]]> 2021-09-27 15:46:19 UTC https://padlet.com/2470441/zzzhuchongyu/wish/1771627781 Privilege & Disprivilege 2470441 https://padlet.com/2470441/zzzhuchongyu/wish/1771633978 I am a mandarin speaker, which means I can communicate properly with a large number of people in this world and can understand a specific culture.
I have outgoing personality and naturally smile a lot, which has brought me many good friends.
I am full of sentimentality so that I can fall in love deeply.
I still get financial support from my parents.

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I have a little bit fat in my face and body so I can never become a model (which was ever my dream). 
English is not my mother tongue. I have to put extra effort to understand western culture through English.
I cannot travel freely in europe with chinese passport.
Paris, which I love so much, is not my hometown.

]]> 2021-09-27 15:47:44 UTC https://padlet.com/2470441/zzzhuchongyu/wish/1771633978 Self Presentation 2470441 https://padlet.com/2470441/zzzhuchongyu/wish/1771650996 I am more as an observer than a photographer.]]> 2021-09-27 15:52:50 UTC https://padlet.com/2470441/zzzhuchongyu/wish/1771650996 Window Collage 2470441 https://padlet.com/2470441/zzzhuchongyu/wish/1771662628 2021-09-27 15:56:28 UTC https://padlet.com/2470441/zzzhuchongyu/wish/1771662628 Week 2 response 2470441 https://padlet.com/2470441/zzzhuchongyu/wish/1771819316 1) Are there elements of your culture/experience that you feel others should know about? ]]> 2021-09-27 16:46:33 UTC https://padlet.com/2470441/zzzhuchongyu/wish/1771819316 Week 2 response 2470441 https://padlet.com/2470441/zzzhuchongyu/wish/1771827225 2) Are there examples of art/imagery/design/creative works that affect marginalised people, in relation to your own culture/experience? Can you give examples that reveal discrimination/violence against people in a) an explicit way b) a more subtle/hidden way? Compare and critique the approach of these two.

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digitalvillage.io
thedematerialised.com
www.auroboros.co.uk
CGI influencer: Sophia
Contra-Internet: Jubilee 2033 by Zach Blas
AIDOL 爱道 (2019) by Lawrence Lek

instagrams:
DIGI-GXL COMMUNITY PAGE
The Immersive Kind
HERVISIONS
INSTITUTE OF DIGITAL FASHION
AURO.BOROS
ABISHENG
LILMIQUELA

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· to behold, use or perceive any extension of ourselves in technological form is necessarily to embrace it.
· computational metaphors, where the self or the body is referred to in terms of processing and information. It is our active knowing that becomes the self defining space of these ideas.
· perception and the embodied self takes place within a kind of field of being the space between inner and outer worlds moves between social and cultural practices and spaces of physical affective interactions.
· computer databanks dissolve the human image that we become distanced from the image of ourselves. - the dematerialisation of the body to information
· certain forms of technology can be reimagined to new forms of participation.
· e.g. women’s bodily functions become objective in a patriarchal context.

How is structure played out upon your own body?
What are the power balances that influence that structure?]]> 2021-11-12 17:38:50 UTC https://padlet.com/2470441/zzzhuchongyu/wish/1887181586 Lecture - Repair 2470441 https://padlet.com/2470441/zzzhuchongyu/wish/1887269736 2021-11-12 18:27:54 UTC https://padlet.com/2470441/zzzhuchongyu/wish/1887269736 Outcome video script 2470441 https://padlet.com/2470441/zzzhuchongyu/wish/1891904362 ref: Searching, 2018]]> 2021-11-15 17:24:30 UTC https://padlet.com/2470441/zzzhuchongyu/wish/1891904362 Tsinghua research report 2470441 https://padlet.com/2470441/zzzhuchongyu/wish/1891918401 2021-11-15 17:30:11 UTC https://padlet.com/2470441/zzzhuchongyu/wish/1891918401 Snow Crash 2470441 https://padlet.com/2470441/zzzhuchongyu/wish/1891930804 Only once in a great while does a writer come along who defies comparison -- a writer so original he redefines the way we look at the world. 
Neal Stephenson is such a writer and Snow Crash is such a novel, weaving virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and just about everything in between with a cool, hip cyber-sensibility to bring us the gigantic thriller of the information age.
In reality, the main character Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo's Cosa Nostra Inc., but in the Metaverse he's a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus that's striking down hackers everywhere, he races along the neon-lit streets on a search-and-destroy mission for the shadowy virtual villain threatening to bring about infocalypse.]]> 2021-11-15 17:35:09 UTC https://padlet.com/2470441/zzzhuchongyu/wish/1891930804 Questions that I want to ask the participants 2470441 https://padlet.com/2470441/zzzhuchongyu/wish/1891964128 1. Do you think this virtual image is distinct from your self identity? 
2. If this is the role that you are going to be in the Metaverse, are you happy with it?
3. How do you feel in this sonic and visual environment?]]> 2021-11-15 17:48:41 UTC https://padlet.com/2470441/zzzhuchongyu/wish/1891964128 digital-only fashion 2470441 https://padlet.com/2470441/zzzhuchongyu/wish/1918554474 2021-11-29 17:40:53 UTC https://padlet.com/2470441/zzzhuchongyu/wish/1918554474 zuckerberg 2470441 https://padlet.com/2470441/zzzhuchongyu/wish/1919083576 2021-11-29 22:24:18 UTC https://padlet.com/2470441/zzzhuchongyu/wish/1919083576 shooting room effect 2470441 https://padlet.com/2470441/zzzhuchongyu/wish/1920224735 2021-11-30 12:30:03 UTC https://padlet.com/2470441/zzzhuchongyu/wish/1920224735