so it seems like everyone is starting to talk in the department about this idea of organizing and shaping the information we have. i have this aimless desire to synthesize all that i am learning into powerpoint presentations or something. needless to say this department is pretty experimental. even on a social level.

potentially i could make it a project. brinton showed me a program called freemind tonight that does some graphic representations of mindmaps. kind of interesting. but in java and clunky as f. i'm thinking that if i had to make one personally it might just be a memex. an actual physical object that exists outside of the computer. some sort of crossreferenced list. but the internet is good with databases. hmm... or a series of paintings or something.

what exists in reality that we can infuse with ideas. obviously
+ any designed object. a calculator. a mouse. a spoon.
+ paper / writing
+ actions

today in class teri was talking about the technology of illuminated manuscripts being a mnemonic device for remembering. infusing the reading with a color sense and shape along with the ideas. i'm sure many people remember children's books because of the fusing image and text.

what if i created a series of mnemonic objects. say one a week or whatever to engender my ideas into something physical that is not an art object, strictly as a practice of inscribing meaning onto things. the problem is that to effectively convey meaning often to you have to be so blunt as to be crude where as if you are too subtle the meaning may be lost on you after a while. maybe i don't actually need to remember things.

i'm talking about creating an object to manipulate and shape that holds my ideas and connects to how the ideas of others relate to me. i feel as though this is getting too intellectual though. the proccess of actually making needs to be a factor in this. and so it goes.

what if i used max? okee dokee.