Reading Response

1. Identify the article you have selected and why you chose it.

2. What are the main points of the essay?

3. How are the ideas or arguments in this article relevant to your own practice as a media artist?

I choose the article, "Theory of the Derive" by Guy Debord. This article touch an area of my mind that I had never thought about really. In the opening it talks about how a girl followed the same routine. She traveled to about 3 areas that formed a triangle during the day. This made me think about the habits we develop during our lives to keep ourself in line. It made me think to put it plainly.
The essay is talking about the possiblities of being free. The fact that tadpoles were subject to being freer actions when they were stripped of all awareness. They were independent. This is what I understood from this article. The idea of how we are to be freer and/or creation of new ideas through free thinking.
I suppose this article could be used in relations to my work as a media artist in the fact that new and interesting ideas spawn from a free mind. One that doesn't follow the rules set for it by the world and social ideals. Good ideas are ones that people like. Great ideas are those taht make you think.