The Cumshow (Final)

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First Quarter Notebook -- All the Pages

Camgirl Essayfilm/Experience Feedback (Writing / Concept)

- reading first bit … is there some kind of critical message in this? writing strong, voice strong, trustworthy, very honest, non judgemental
- “A pang of guilt or shame or disbelief at the disconnect between their fantasy and my reality rang deep in my gut. Like there was something wrong with me for not thinking of the men and the cocks and how my pussy felt clenching around my fingers, and the 200 men that were watching with their dicks in hands as I hated myself in the bath tub.”
- questions about aspect of dispelling myths about sex work and positioning sex work as a form of work … and beliefs otherwise leaves sex workers vulnerable to danger… but still better than coal mining.
- important to set up the reality / fantasy aspect of sex work, defining the experience, before diving into the work work reality
- result will likely be interesting / valuable, especially in context of larger body of work

Class notes ...

Camgirls
- live camgirls
- 3 types, whore, girl, artist
- intersection of pornography + escort
- appeal ... authenticity, customers like no makeup, tank top + shorts, bedroom culture, live interaction
- fantasy vs reality, public vs private
- illusion of authenticity ... theatrical authenticity
- live, on screen, in opposition to curated experience a la social media
- private information of otherwise remote strangers
- improv, unplanned, on the spot

Glitch art
- glitch as process ... an experience, not an aesthetic
- tactful exploration of systems
- glitch... negative experience, accident as a thing of beauty
> similar to appeal of camgirls
- fleeting / personal


- (work) suffer from planned obsolesce of people, things they make / sell
- system of production vs system of reception

Notes on Speculative Everything Dunne & Raby

It is becoming clear that many of the challenges we face today are unfixable and that the only way to overcome them is by changing our values, beliefs, attitudes and behaviour.

Design’s denial that the problems we face are more serious than they appear.
Channelling energy and resources into thing … rather than the ideas and attitudes inside our heads.

Alternative ways of being.

Possible futures as tools.

>> Research meth // Strategic foresight and innovation howto
-- http://2020mediafutures.ca/
-- http://slab.ocadu.ca/project/what-is-foresight-video-series

Guerilla futures :( :( :(

Probable: Most designers operate.
Plausible: scenario planning and foresight. -- not prediction
Possible: Scientifically possible, believable series of events, role of expert is not to prevent the impossible but to make it acceptable.
Fantasy: yawn

Government + industry determine probable / plausible.

If it is possible to create more socially constructive imaginary futures, could design help people participate more actively as citizen-consumers?

Using design to open all sorts of possibilities that can be discussed

1980’s - hyper commercialized, design intergrated into neoliberal capitalism
Victor Papanek - socially orientated designer 1970
Society of individuals, possible to strive for a million tiny utopias
Downgrading of dreams to hopes, planet’s limited resources
Younger generation doesnt dream: it hopes that we will survive, that there will be water for all, that we will be able to feed everyone, that we will not destroy ourselves.
Financial crash of 2008 - new interest in alternatives to current system.

Need pluralism in design, of ideology and values.