For this assignment, students were asked to create a zine which handled social issues within a chosen movie. In Alex Garlands Ex Machina, privacy stood as a big issue as hints were dropped that the worldwide company of BlueBook was collecting personal data from people around the world to form an AI person. For my zine, I challenged myself in creating my works with using found works as the company of BlueBook used collected data to form this robot. The cover stands as the BlueBook search engine with details such as “Bluebookmail” and “Bluebook Pixelbook.” This was a satirization of Google due to the fact that all these components of the front page were originally here and I just changed the name. The first page includes photos of the zines protagonist “Robin” as the photos zoom closer into her to show that BlueBook will be watching her throughout this story. The next is a scrapbook of Robin and her assumed Boyfriend (which we later find out is Samuel Freedman). The centerfold consists of a desktop screen filled with random and not so random artifacts. On the left, there reads a text chat between Robin and her friend where we learn that Robin and Sam have broken up. While Siri listens in the corner. The next page is an email to Robin from Bluebook giving their condolences for her break up with Samuel. In the email, Bluebook mentions things to cheer her up that were either searched by Robin or texted between her and her friend. The next photo was a collection of images by Heather Dewey-Hagbord, an artist who is famous for her collection of 3D printed faces. The concluding image was a statement on how the technology world is often merged with the real world as the face of Robin has now become digitally rendered.Robin Zine2-1nnt2xi
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