Resurrect.

This blog hasn't been updated for a while, and that's because I've been busy finishing up my design-cum-research thesis - and celebrating the fruits of my labour. I've been in Singapore for about three weeks now, and while thesis has been done and dusted, this blog will continue to document my various thoughts and processes - and potentially, research - on the subject matter.

Presentations at UCLA REMAP and NUS Department of Architecture went great; there's a presentation for NUS IDM soon. Check back shortly, for images and write-ups of my thesis project.

Anyway, was checking back on some emails that I glossed over, and came across one by Fabian, excerpted below:

"First as a starting point let's define Engaged Media as an art creation approach which encompasses the used of new technologies to generate processes and expressions focusing on presence and context as their essence. The presence of the author/authors and the subject/subjects and their dynamic relationship to the context of that presence are the foundations of Engaged Media.

Engaged Media does not exist separate from every day life but emerges from everyday life.

Engaged Media does not seek to produce aesthetic objects but to enable expressive systems.

Engaged Media embraces open imperfection and rejects enclosed perfection.

Engaged Media distributes creative capacity and opposes centralized power.

Engaged Media focuses on cultural specificity and disregards formulaic universality.

Engaged Media aspires to be of service and opposes neutrality."

Thought I'd document this in illustration that terms such as "Engaged Media" have no singular definition, and could possibly embody and engender so many different 'things', ideas and opinions. It begs for a constant search for definition, and this is what continually drives me.