PostHuman Project Unleashed!

OK, so first day back and we're introduced to our first project, ANIMATING THE POSTHUMAN (Posthuman: are ppl that relies on technologies to get through the day; how technologies affects our daily lives).

Though i havent really thought about how ill be going through with this project, but ive came up with two concepts that i might be working through with.

Concept 1 - Helen's day to day routines

Basically, this idea portrays myself as a posthuman, telling the story in a first person's perspective. It begins with Helen waking up with an electronic alarm clock (displaying reliance), getting herself ready to go out. When it comes to transportation, Helen drives her car (car, another form of technological development). She then heads to the store to grab some neccessities, which she will then do a self checkout (reliance on technology) before she heads home.

During the time, Helen will perform other forms of reliance like using her mobile for instant messaging and calling her friends. When she arrives back to her house, you'll see how her house is operated by a block of computer: the garage is operated by a computer (senses when the car arrives and closes when the car is parked inside), the lights and temperature regulator is switched on once Helen steps inside the house, the stove automatically switches on and starts cookin meals when Helen presses a few buttons for choosing cuisines, and the shower turns on with temperatures set by the detection of body temp when Helen steps into the shower (if youre cold, the shower becomes warmer, vice versa). After all this, Helen gets into bed and turns on her computer to check her emails, msn, facebook etc (just to show some daily things that people seem to MUST do before they sleep nowadays).

Once Helen is done with everythign and falls asleep, it goes into the ending of the animation, where electricity (in the animation, it is displayed as the main source of power to function all these "powerful" technology) fails and Helen's world goes into chaos because she cant do anything without these technologies (displaying what happens when we over-rely on technology); Helen cant cook cause she relies on the electronic stove to prepare her meals, Helen cant shower, cause it was all electrical, Helen cant even get out of her own house cuz shes locked in. Basically, Helen cant do jack and ends with her crying out loud.

What this concept is trying to communicate to its audience is that, though techonology is powerful and can do almost everything for us. In the end it is still just a machine, and when we rely on it too much, we cant do anything once they fail.

This is a more literal and direct approach towards teh project. For a more abstractive approach, i have here another concept to propose.

Concept 2 - All-in-One

This concept merges the idea of posthuman being just an illusion and posthuman as reality. Im not too sure whether my idea can communicate this idea thoroughly but what im planning to do is to display a form representing a human being (so...not exactly a human) doing some random things like getting into car or operating a computer. But what will be emphazised in this idea is how the "form" operates these equipments.

What i was thinkin was that the form will press a button, or "thinks" about the "item" and then the iteam (ex, the car) appears. This represents the illusional part of the idea because the car for example, is not really a real item in the world, it was only a "thought"(made-up) by the "form". Illusional, yet real, because the form will then be operating it (rides the car to certain places).

Then it shows how the "form" opperates a computer. Computers are no longer seperate objects from us, it becomes a part of us, or...we become a part of it.

"we morph........ into the system"
"we merge.........with the system"
"we become a part of the system"

So in the end of the animation, it shows how the "form" is just a million bits of data flowing in an empty space.

Quite abstractive, but duno yet whether it communicates teh idea effectively enough.


So yea, those are my two ideas, now im gona begin my reasearch and further develop them and see which one is more suitable for this project, or i might end up using something totally different. Feel free to comment =)