FINAL PROJECT LINK

This is a link to our final project:

http://web.comhem.se/arrebarre/original_typewriterFX.mov

Our installation

In Alzheimer’s disease, a disease associated with ageing, nerve cells in the brain are dying, which leads to reduced brain activity. Some of the patterns of brain activity that get affected are those associated with reading. For that reason, the ability to read and understand a message delivered by a text decreases for a person with Alzheimer’s disease.


In our installation, words disappearing can symbolize nerve cells dying in the brain. The message gets weaker and weaker as words keep on disappearing, and you can somehow see the analogy to Alzheimer’s disease and how it progresses. The stripped text on its own also gives us an image of how we may perceive a person with Alzheimer’s disease.

the project

Today we are planing the big project, trying to find out how to present our concept in the exhibition.

This is a link to a homepage we have used a lot for research about Alzheimer, it contains a great interactive tour inside the brain: http://www.alz.org/alzheimers_disease_4719.asp

Grupp 8 - Alzheimers

Physical aspect of ageing of the newspaper!

Grupp 8 - Alzheimers

Our process until today:

Last week we chose a newspaper as an object to symbolize ageing. We presented a couple of different aspects of the ageing, like the physical aspect and the content of the paper. For the second presentation we focused on the eye, and how the ageing of the eye of an elderly person affects the reading.

27/11:

We have decided to leave the idéa about the eye that we presented last friday. Instead, we are going to focus on alzheimers disease. We found an article that lists the 10 most common symptoms of alzheimers. On the basis of these, we´ll try to create photos, that represent the symptoms. Some of the symptoms: memory loss, difficulty performing familiar tasks, disorientation, poor judgment and misplacing things.