Evaluation: My digital World

For the project my digital world I origonally had the idea to take a picture of myself next to a computer and a globe next to the computer with the background in a tron type style, That quickly changed into digital device with neon type colours, that once again changed into a digital device infected and spreading the virus into the real world. In terms of research I looked at images of computers with a virus, which did not really help, so i then just searched virus's and got some results showing bacteria, It was those images that inspired me to create tentricles to symbolize the virus spreading. I do not have an artist link of any kind because this was my own raw idea.

The prototype image I did ( In the post below ) was a good starting point and the foundation for the final five images, the outcomes for all five were great, my favourite among the five was of a security camera which I coloured gold/yellow with black infections spreading. All was going great until a issue came up, my memory sti ck containing my final five images became currupt and un-useable, I was able to recover two final images of the college laptop but the other three I could not recover the rather ironic thing about it was that my project is about digital devices and my own device breaks on me.

The weakness in this project was my own memory stick breaking, If the group was allowed to put our images on the backup then pay later then I could have still had five images to place in the exhibition, the strengths I think was the overall development of my idea, going from an image too obvious to something more complexed in terms of what I was aiming to get across.

Overall I think I did well on the project, despite the setback I was able to present two of my most developed images at the exhibition.

Project Progress.

My original image was going to be of myself, a computer and a globe all made into a tron type style. After carefully looking over I decided to do something a little less obvious to the title of the project, After taking an image of a computer and editing it on Photoshop and Picnik, the outlook was interesting.


The Image is what I mentioned above, I really like how the tron like neon effect has come out and looks some what threatening, like it was infected by an evil virus.

This was the first prototype image I created using a mix of photoshop and picnik, really like the the tron type effect I achieved by accident, it worked out really well and will be the general foundation for my photos.

It was at this point I decided to create Five Image's all themed around a digital item, infected with a virus and spreading into the outside world. The objects I began to work with were my memory stick for starters, I then followed on with an infected laptop, followed by a security camera, then an image of my signature sunglasses been infected, and finally one of just the memory stick on its own.

This was the first of my final images showing my memory stick pluged into a laptop and spreading a virus around the socket. I also pixelated some of the memory stick to reinforce the digital world feel.

This is the second image, I used my memory stick and signature sunglasses to show the virus infecting something I use, by accident I created a matrix type background which really worked well with the memory stick and sunglasses.