Am wrapping up my project today so this will be my last post.

I hope that this archive document informs and supports viewings of my project, educating viewers on my own creative process.

Thank you for reading.

Got an email this morning from Maggie Boden. She has agreed to meet with me, which will be an amazing resource. Unfortunately she can't see me until Tuesday, when I cannot add to this blog, as it must be submitted.

I hope it will still give me another insight into the themes I'm tackling, and inform my critique.

Last night I went to the Digiville event on collaboration. Cynthia Beth Rubin gave a talk on the successes and failures she's experienced in this method of working, and made me think about how the experience of 'collaborating' can vary so much from project to project.

I met Rachel Beth Egenhoefer who did the knitting input I wrote about earlier this week, and Anna Dumitriu was there too! She suggested I talk to Semiconductor about the computer as creative collaborator, as apparently it's something that they have an interest in. Have emailed them today and Ruth has said they'd be very happy to share their views - yay!

I've been making my animation today and it's been driving me mad! Have finally finished it but it sounds a bit tinny. Never mind - I'm not being marked on it as such, it has a documentation function.

Everything else is ready for submission so I can start thinking about other things now.

I'm getting a bit anxious about my critique. Really want to get it done by the practical hand-in date because I need to get on with my dissertation. Only 4 1/2 weeks to get everything done in!

Went to see Rachel Beth Egenhoefer's project on Saturday in the end. Unfortunately some of it was being taken down (it was the last day) but I managed to see one thing which was really cool.

Aluminium knitting needles acted as an input device, with stitches registered on the computer as a series of '0's and '1's (binary like my project). This data was then used to produce designs on cloth.

Essentially the final cloth pattern was the computer's interpretation of the stitches being fed into it. Is this a creative exercise?

Have picked up my project today!! There are so many sheets it's a bit daunting!

Have decided to go with the black and white progress shots, so am taking them up to Will on Monday morning to get them printed. They wouldn't email because there's so many!

Am off to look at Rachel Beth Egenhoefer's exhibition at the Lighthouse this afternoon. Should be good.

Went up to the print unit this morning.

Chatted to both Will and Vicky (the other person I emailed) and they are sorting my big image out! Is going to cost £32.34, but that includes half an hour of Will's time splitting the whole image down into A3 sheets.

It's a bit annoying that they can't do any bigger, but that's life and perhaps it's a blessing in disguise. Certainly A3 sheets will be easier to handle, even if they take a bit longer to put up.

Am picking it up tomorrow so am quite excited.

Now I just have to sort out the progress images which are going to be pasted on the right-hand wall. They are screenshots of the image as it went along. I want them A3 but can't decide between colour (£40ish) and black and white (£4)!!!

How cool are these?! Have been working on them all afternoon and am pretty pleased - those banisters are really tricky!

Have finished my image - hoorah!!

No word from Will Barker so I emailed another member of staff there. They're printing exam papers this afternoon so closed to visitors. I'm working tomorrow so will have to go up first thing Thursday with the image and just get them on the job straightaway.

The meeting with Ju was good but worrying too. I tried to explain my project to her and she didn't really get it. If a multimedia artist has problems then getting the public to engage with it will be tricky. That's something I really need to focus on in my 'Short Critical Introduction': making it simple, and communicating to the audience what I intend them to take from the project.