HSS8121: Creative Project Proposal
For our assessment we were given a brief to respond to, which was a commissioned piece for the National Media Museum’s LATES programme, co-inciding with the “In Your Face” exhibition. In the call for...
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As part of the assessment we also had to submit a document explaining what kinds of research we would propose to carry out for the given project proposal. As I had already started this in order to...
View ArticleHSS8123: Fun artwork I found
This is a poster designed by Vince Ray which I though was pretty cool! – shows a female Zoltar machine called Zoltarra, labelled as psycho and a ‘mis-fortune teller’– find it funny she is punching a...
View ArticleHSS8123: Old Coin Machines
In my research into old fortune telling machines I found Nic Costa’s book ‘Automatic Pleasures’ fantastic – with some great photos of many different old mechanical machines from the 19th century! I...
View ArticleHSS8123: Having fun at amusements
As part of my ethnographic research I visited some arcades and took pictures and audio recordings to analyse. Here are the collection of photos I have taken. Some have been at amusement parks, some in...
View ArticleHSS8123: Fortunes
When I tried out the different fortune teller machines I collected the fortune cards for my research
View ArticleHSS8123: Final Video Documentation
Big thanks to Daniel Parry who shot and edited this film.
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