I went to the Hammer Museum on Saturday June 3rd and viewed "The Desert People" gallery. The gallery consisted of digital aspects that correlates greatly with the main focus of the class. For example, its centerpiece was a 16mm film that has been transferred to DVD. This experience consisted of creativity and science working together to create a film. Artists such as David Lamelas lead the way for modern day design and media arts concepts because of his unique way of viewing the world. 
This film and the artwork overall represents the experience of a group of people who travel to a reservation located in the south eastern United States and depicts their story through artistic aspects yet at the same time uses the addition of seemingly random scenes to portray a sense of parallel of the disorientation and bewilderment of people traveling. One of the main ideas of the film is to call attention to the subjective nature of both truth and meaning. Lamelas does this by the adding in the seemingly random scenes and interviews to the film to where the film doesn't seem to flow anymore. 
Overall, the technological use of structuring the film so it tells a story both through the images while simultaneously telling a story through its structure encompasses the focus of DESMA 9 and how there are many different aspects involved in all different types of artwork.
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