layers and meaning: reflections on digitality
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A presentation to a symposium, which will get more developed in the course of things.TRANSCRIPT
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Layers and meaningJenny Weight, RMITc. [email protected]
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2 types of stories• The ones where you already
know the conclusion• The ones where you don’t
You already know the conclusion to this story …
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When you already know the conclusion …
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It is easy to organise the elements you need
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into layers
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Regardless of medium /software / genre /style
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Each layer is equivalent to a discreet story element
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And can therefore be manipulated
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Layers are about relationships between elements
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Iteration and juxtaposition
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Reveal and hide
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Layers and frames
Frames consist of layers which change over time. Frames accumulate changing meanings, in which the relationships are not just between layers but between versions of layers in an evolutionary sequence.
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But what about the other type of story
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the one where you don’t know the conclusion?
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Layers become an experiment
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in meaning-making
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juxtaposition and iteration
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hide and reveal
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smaller and bigger
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incremental change
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Have layers changed meaning?
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Layers allow us to contain the history of the object (the drafts) within the file
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Layers allow us to treat meaning as an experiment
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Layers represent to the maker the plasticity and contingency of meaning
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So I think meaning making is a different sort of experience in digital production
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