Category: 2120

Justin Philip

4-12-21

In the Affect Theory video, the narrator talks about how the movement of hand is abstract because there are many ways it can move and be positioned. I agree with this statement because in 3d space, every airborne particle presumably has a xyz coordinate. X and y are used for 2 dimensional space and xyz is used for the 3^rd dimension which we humans live in. I hope a 4^th dimensional world exist in reality because I want to one see what a tesseract would look like. We could see cubes that are in the 3^rd dimension, squares in the 2^nd dimension, lines in the 1^st dimension and points in the zeroth dimension. Hand movements in the 4^th dimension would have infinite amounts of space more than our 3^rd dimension and that would make it super abstract.

Justin Philip

March 14, 2021

MTEC2120

                                                            Cyborg Manifesto

In Donna Haraway’s A Cyborg Manifesto, she talks about cybernetic organisms and their purpose in a human-centered world. In one paragraph, she relates the human-machine concept by explaining how humans and animals are alike. “Movements for animal rights are not irrational denials of human uniqueness. Biology and evolutionary theory over the last two centuries have simultaneously produced modern organisms as objects of knowledge and reduced the line between humans and animals to a faint trace re-etched in ideological struggle or professional disputes between life and social science.” I agree with this statement by Donna because both humans and animals are “objects of knowledge” that store information in memory and are able recall them at a later date. Dogs, for example, know when its owner is about to open the door and run to the door before the door is open. The human owner knows this, senses hunger in the dog and feeds it accordingly. “Teaching modern Christian creationism should be fought as a form of child abuse” is another quote from Donna that caught my eye. I could see her point of children being brainwashed learning about Christianity because they might believe everything they hear at such a young age and transition into adulthood based on this “lie”. I do however believe that as long as children are not forced into learning creationism, they should be allowed to if they choose to want to learn about it.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YSMGNjHUpokndxSrYeG4yB0w-cTzR_eO/view?usp=sharing

I created a virtual world environment using different 3D assets in Unity. I wanted to create a sort of real but not too real scene to make it look like a hologramic world that mimics the real world. Bunch of prefabs were used for the trees, rocks, grass, water, and sand.