Proposal -- Tracia Almeida

The second week into class, I started to think about technology as a social process rather than a literal manifestation of the effects of added features in our lives. I have decided to dwell on the idea of the narrative sound manual and take the narrative to a place that is so abstract that it changes the way you perceive the objects in view. The effects of this sound manual on the audience will communicate how added features displace our lives to a radical extent.

You will be seated in the “pink room” which will be painted white to give you a clinical, isolated feeling. In front of you, you will find six separate square balsa panels on a table. From above, you will hear a narrative sound manual that will construct not just a basic relationship between object and the narrative but also creates another dimension that these six balsa panels could exist within.

The narrative uses language to address issues of disposal, energy consumption, legality, pollution, personalization, paranoia, religion, social groups, human relationships, portability, speed, and responsibility. This list will grow as I continue to write.