Storify – Frequency Festival 2017

Reflection:

For this task, we were asked to attend the Frequency Festival and document our experience. At each exhibition, we were required to participate in as many activities and exhibitions, as we could, to acknowledge and understand how data could be collected and presented in various forms. We successfully managed to see many exhibitions on the day, despite the length of our timetabled sessions, which enabled us to leave the workshop and apply our knowledge from each seminar to real-world experiences.

After attending the festival, we then collected all the images and footage we had taken of the exhibitions and uploaded them to social networking sites such as Twitter and Instagram via the hashtag #FREQ17. We were then asked to look through the different content uploaded and to arrange them into a Storify slide. Although I had never come across this particular online software before, it was easy to navigate, upload photos and videos via the hashtag and illustrate our time spend at the festival.

Evaluation:

From this task, I believe that I gained a great understanding of how data is collected, stored and presented in our contemporary society through the use of digital technologies. It was interesting to see how data could be visually represented other than the ways that we are immune to acknowledging and accepting. I also consider this a good activity to complete as it enabled us to get a real experience of collaboration art and data other than being situated in a classroom with little interaction of what we were studying. In addition to this, I believe that I understood the motives of this task as I was able to successfully create a Storify slide which illustrates and guides us throughout the time that we spent there, informing them of the different exhibitions we experienced.

In terms of our assignment in the next semester, this trip encouraged me to think have space is utilised and what would be the most ideal location to hold an exhibition which would be successful in terms of the public’s participation.