Category Archives: DIRECTED VS UNDIRECTED

Olivia and I were the first group to do the presentation just as I wished. It went as we planned. The questions I got were quite friendly actually. I’m happy that at least they got what I said about my work. I was most amazed by Nico’s work. It seemed really complicated to translate soundContinue reading “Presentation”

The tutorial with Aleya was really helpful. Here’re the updates of my last reflection and the investigation for this project: REFLECTION Surrounded with all kinds of advertisements in every aspect of daily life, unconfident consumers are unconsciously manipulated to form values conveyed by hidden ideas of advertisements. The theme of our manifesto is manipulating advertising. OurContinue reading “Writing tutorial & pair tutorial”

In the morning, we had a tutorial with Aleya. She suggested us to have a strong intro for our presentation to connect our work. Later, we had a tutorial with Ian. He suggested me to talk about the connection between my idea and my practical work. For example, why did I use colorful plastic? AndContinue reading “Pair tutorials”

On Tuesday, I had an individual tutorial with Ian. He suggested me to have people holding the installation outdoors and take photos of passerby’s reaction to the installation. However, it’s almost impossible for me to find four people to help me with that… Later, we had Introduction to Premiere. And I found KEYFRAMING and SPLITContinue reading “Tutorial & Introduction to Premiere & Shooting & Portfolio Session & Lecture”

Thinking bout Nathan’s saying even though people’re on auto-pilot, there’re many stories. I got this new idea: It’s inspired from Olafur Eliasson’s installation: The shape of square consists of four arrows, showing that citizens are always directed in the city either by the signages or themselves. When I’m outside of the square as an observer,Continue reading “New installation idea & writing workshop”

In the first session, the lecturer talked about disability. We watched a ted talk, “inspiration porn”. It’s surprising to realize that many people with disabilities feel their real disability involves problems with the society rather than problems with their bodies. They want to be seen equally and independent. We did a quiz and there’re someContinue reading “Lecture about disability and gender”

On Monday, we were introduced to create animation in dragonframe, which I had never tried. It’s especially cool to create a “video” that couldn’t be realized by real videos. But it also takes ages to tell a story by stop frame animation. On Tuesday, we had two sessions about performance. The first session was heldContinue reading “Animation induction & performance session & InDesign Induction & tutorials”

We choose to enter the space (city). We’re “directed” in the space (city) by the narrow path & sound/light (signage). We get a sense of moving while we just turn around on the same spot (auto-pilot mode leaves no trace in memories/life). Shaky videos create negative feelings and bring conscious (lost/off track). We escape mentally.Continue reading “New installation idea”

We discussed about how to interact with people without offending or hurting people and how to respect different people and culture. I’ve always liked a statement by my favorite Chinese writer, Han Han: There’s no extremity in the world. It’s just everyone’s lifestyle is different. So I’m always open and I respect others’ different lifestyleContinue reading “Lecture about culture sensitive”

Yesterday I planned how to build the space. I decided on use PVC pipes to build stands and connect them with ropes for white cloth to hang on. I also wanted to try to use cocoon balls as the material for directions/signs because cocoon balls are built for protection at the beginning while the insectsContinue reading “Tutorial with Scott”