Beck Harris Design

Everywhere at Once: Narrative Multiplicity and the Digital Archive

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Abstract

The lines between digital and physical are blurring as the role of technology in our lives expands. As a culture we are becoming increasingly adept at integrating physical environment, cell phones, television, and the internet into one complex narrative of everyday life. The archive is particularly impacted by this process of convergence as our photographs, our newspapers, and even our books are increasingly powered by, and accessed through, networked technology.

What implications does this shift from physical archive to digital archive have for both graphic design and the engaged reader?

In person defense

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Gallery Show

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Written defense

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Website

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Taking Leave of Nancy

An exploration into a family story and the artifacts that tell it.

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Two places at once

Experiments in interfaces connected to live data. In this blog written for a design seminar class, entries are stacked according to time and blow left or right at varying degrees of strength based on live weather data where the user is located.

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An RSS Experiment

And exploration of using RSS to amplify the impact of statistics.

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If you fall

A gallery show investigating belonging and dependency and the nature of being an outsider.

Installation in gallery.
Installation in gallery.
Accompanying zine and silkscreened tshirts.
Accompanying zine and silkscreened tshirts.
Website supporting the show.
Website supporting the show.
Discovery research
Discovery research

The Box Project

Two boxes. Two weeks. Two generations. An experiment in producing connection to someone who is lost through archives.

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Lagniappe

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