This week was mainly concerned with the creation and submission of one’s own digital artefact followed by the inspection and commenting of fellow students’ digital artwork.

On the formder yes I did enjoy the video creation which provided the incentive to explore one’s own artistic capabilities. Overall the production process was much easier to do than I thought thus lowering the threshold of doing similar projects in future.
It also made it clear to me that many students will probably be savvy enough to produce similar material themselves, given the ease of access to rather powerful media creation software including product such as Prezi or Jing.
As to the other students’ work first it was interesting to note that most did pick either a Flickr-type slideshow or some sort of media production there were still some others such as Slideshare, Photoshopped image or Prezi.

Content-wise topics cere mostly centred around course-related aspects such as u/dystopian views or the comparison of value of digital images versus text.
For me this exercise was another way of a) getting to know my fellow students a bit more (after all cultural expressions tend to be personalised expressions of the self) and b) getting an appreciation of the dversity of applying art in the expression of opinion.
Whilst I am still not convinced that digital art is a replacement for text-based discourse I still think it has shown me a lt more than I would have given credit for at the outset.