{"id":199,"date":"2010-10-26T15:40:46","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T15:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digitalmedialabs.org\/?p=199"},"modified":"2010-10-26T15:40:46","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T15:40:46","slug":"scratch-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digitalmedialabs.org\/HULL2010\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"Day 2: Scratch Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Today we begun with introductions to a number of different programming tools including Quartz Composer, <a href=\"http:\/\/vvvv.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">VVVV<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/processing.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Processing<\/a>. I began to think more about the act of touching the touch screen &#8211; about the conceptual shift that occurs when you imagine the tip of your finger interacting with the computer screen rather than the mouse cursor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">No doubt influenced by my role as Syndicate Secretary for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artistslotterysyndicate.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Artists&#8217; Lottery Syndicate<\/a> and by my wider interest in &#8216;alternative funding strategies&#8217;, at some point during this introductory session I wrote the words \u2018scratch card\u2019 in my notebook. Then, as soon as the demonstrations were over I headed down to the nearest newsagents to buy myself six National Lottery scratch cards \u2013 a mixture of \u00a31 and \u00a32 games.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I was interested in replicating the scratching action through the touching \/ rubbing of the touch screen. I wanted to make a simple \/ quick experiment to visualise this and to try it out. With the help of Ben Dalton, I was able to get a simple prototype running in Processing before lunch time, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellieharrison.com\/dml\/\" target=\"_blank\">which you can view here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalmedialabs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/screen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-202 alignnone\" title=\"screen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.digitalmedialabs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/screen-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Once I was able to see and interact with this experiment on the touch screen, I began to think more about the ideas behind it. I like the idea of the \u2018potential\u2019 contained in the unscratched card \u2013 the possibility of winning the prize. But, unfortunately, because the card I scanned in did not win any prizes this potential was quickly dissipated once its surface was removed. It is demoted to a completely valueless object, and even more so as a screen representation of a losing card, rather than the card itself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If this piece was shown in a gallery, I like the idea of it only being reset once a day, so that only one or a small number of people get the opportunity to interact with it. Once it has been fully scratched, it is no longer interactive. It no longer contains any \u2018potential\u2019 or value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we begun with introductions to a number of different programming tools including Quartz Composer, VVVV and Processing. I began to think more about the act of touching the touch screen &#8211; about the conceptual shift that occurs when you imagine the tip of your finger interacting with the computer screen rather than the mouse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalmedialabs.org\/HULL2010\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalmedialabs.org\/HULL2010\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalmedialabs.org\/HULL2010\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalmedialabs.org\/HULL2010\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalmedialabs.org\/HULL2010\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalmedialabs.org\/HULL2010\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalmedialabs.org\/HULL2010\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalmedialabs.org\/HULL2010\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalmedialabs.org\/HULL2010\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}