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After discussions with several people regarding the negotiated project, I decided at the end of November to return to the drawing board. Fortunately this gave me a chance to stop looking at technology with the idea of wrapping a concept around it, and instead explore areas that I have discovered through my studies and develop a strong conceptual brief before thinking about how to implement it.Unfortunately, however, the research I am developing is turning into pages, and is not particularly suited to displaying on the site (would it? let me know) I have therefore compiled my research so far - and I stress this is purely draft notes and ideas - into a PDF document.Briefly, I am exploring the concept of virtual identity and surveillence. Based on works such as TraceNoizer which explore (and destroy) the concept of digital breadcrumbs that can be combined to form a ‘virtual’ identity of someone that may or may not have any resemblence to their physical being

Having finalised the 3d simulacrum, and placed it in a (simulated) context of a presidential speech, I have decided to design the external packaging for the presentation. As my ‘object’ is the media (metaphor by the microphone), I shall base my presentation on that subject.

The simulacrum technically represents a political speech, surrounded by shots of the media. The speech is emitted to the media world, and reinterpreted through the software. To preface this situation, I shall present the work within a false newspaper, with headlines mentioning the ‘political speech’ that will be made. Hopefully, this will signify the purpose and the usage of simulacrum to the end user.

I have also purchased the excellent asFFT xtra, and published a public beta of the simulacrum below. Note that the piece requires a microphone to be installed, and also needs speakers to be set to a middle level (so as not to trigger the microphone detection).

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