advice for the student(s)
Screens everywhere. So what, you may think.
But, for example, when you see a running text on someones T-shirt,
or, why not, moving images on the chair you are about to use,
it might become more interesting.
Think of what feeds these image, not only in a technical way,
but what model of communication underlies the selection
and programming of these (moving) images.
Is it a broadcast, like on our television screen, a narrow-cast
as in your icecream parlor or the elevator, or is it a point-cast,
as in the screen you watch on the back of the chair in front of you?
Furthermore aesthetic and technical issues abound, given the
fact that all these screens differ in resolution,
display technology, and luminance.
And, think of how to make these screens reactive
to changes in context, changes such as the time of day,
with different lighting conditions, but possibly also
changes in the number and kind of spectators,
that may be detected using sensors or image processing techniques.
Indeed, spectators should be aware that they not only look
at the screens, but the screens may observe the
spectator(s) as well.