This piece, Collective Light, is inspired by the term Open Licensing, which Cable Green, the guest lecturer, introduced to this class. This collage represents the beauty in shared knowledge and the beauty that stems from the collective human consciousness.
This week I am reflecting on the guest lecture with Lucas Wright on the importance of developing a critical understanding of AI and what it means to have AI literacy. Wright stresses that educators and students alike must understand that although AI can be an effective assistant to completing tasks, there are border societal impacts. …
I wrote this poem titled Emergence. The poem is based on the concept of digital identity, the way an individual shapes their digital footprint, covered in this course.
For the past few days, I have compiled all the footage I have recorded over the past 2-4 years. I’ve been finding videos from various places such as my USBS, cameras, and my iPhone, and I even have videos I’ve stored on my laptop that I’ve never used. This whole process reminds me of just…
For my written work element of this project, I have chosen to share my writing on this blog. I am writing a poem related to digital identity. The pictures above are my journals that hold all my writing. Seeing them laid out this way makes me realize just how important order and routine are for…
This week I am reflecting on the guest lecture with Cable Green, an informative lecture on intellectual property and open licensing. Green, who works with Creative Commons, believes in the promotion of open knowledge of big social issues such as climate change or Covid-19. At Creative Commons they promote not only theoretical collaboration but operate…
**note there is audio to the clip I made. clip can be accessed here: https://farida.opened.ca/2025/04/09/fragments-of-time/
I really appreciate the composition of this! I do wonder if the sense of cynicism I pick up from it is at all intentional. It’s a work about shared knowledge throughout humanity, but I see the word WORLD followed by MAN, a term meant to describe all of humanity that has started to fall out of use because of how it diminishes women as people of equal footing with men, and if your eyes follow the trajectory of the text, the next thing you will see is a black and white image of a sullen-faced woman, a member the group excluded by the previous term. I see this process of text establishing a setting, text establishing an exclusive term meant to encapsulate the people of that setting, then an image of the type of person excluded, all laid on top of a collage of bright depictions of the aspirational, beautiful, and modern, and I see a condemnation of ideas of community and progress that are valorised regardless of how the rely on diminishment or exploitation of marginalized people. You speak about this work in optimistic terms in your artist statement and your video, so I wondered if there was any recognition of the potential for the work to be read in this way.