Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes.

So I've done a lot of thinking and talking about my project and I have decided to make a slight alteration to my proposal. I really am not sure that the ' 3D space designed by people without physical spaces' is how I want to frame my piece. I have been thinking about alternate groups of indivdual collaborators I could work with, and also ways that I could pull of the project all by my lonesome.

I was thinking of creating multiple 3D spaces which were modelled around musical compositions. So essentially, 3D visual stimulus that supports music which is part of an album I am working on. I like this idea in that I could certainly incorporate my concrete poetry which the supervisor's seemed to favor, but I feel as though that project undermines the fact that I am working in 3D space. It becomes less about my thesis statement.

Afterward I returned to the idea of collaboration, as I think that this is a big aspect to these 3D virtual universe technologies. Rather than focussing on a specific group of people to collaborate with, I realized that what I find more interesting is how the collaboration affects the authorship of these 3D worlds. So another option is to change my pool of collaborators from the homeless, to random volunteers, but with different group sizes contributing to each individual space. In essence, I will create one virtual space that is completely in my hands, it will be my baby and a direct expression of myself. I will then create a second space through a collaboration with a single other individual... We'll meet, talk about what we want it to look/sound/feel like and I will make it happen. Thirdly will be a space collaboratively created by a small group of people (3-5 seems like a logical number). And lastly will be a completely collaborative world, where anyone who I happen to bring the project up with can add a little piece of their own aesthetic values. The coherence and diversity of these separate spaces will become apparent when they are installed side by side.

Any thoughts?