Project Development and Planning

Of course I was greatly impressed, like everyone else was, with Matt Adam’s compressed account of Blast Theory’s journey and some future plans in the pipeline.

It is interesting to see the progression the group made over the years (in parallel to the advances we’ve had in digital technology). From the very much dramatically stage-driven performance of Read more →

After some serious thought on the topics i’ve presented on previously,  I decided to go with tackling the topics of Food Waste.

Give the topic a search and tons of articles start to appear from countries across the globe, indicating the seriousness of this social issue.

One might think of a food getting poured into the bin as their first thought of Read more →

After last week consultation, I went on for a week observation of myself on things that made me happy in the everyday life.

It was funnily coincidental that Rose Bond started her presentation by showing us her reels of hand-painted animation clear lead film. Having done similar work just a few weeks prior in my Experimental Film class really helped me connect with the process of when viewing her work.

Sadly, that’s where the similarities between me and Rose Bond end.

Her repertoire of work Read more →

Through the exploring of the topic of family and relationships while incorporating the interactive elements, I found that there are different artists that deals with this topic with their own interpretation. I found this topic hard to express in the digital and physical form.

The installation ‘And that’s the way it is’ is fragments of news broadcast which is projected on Read more →

Krzysztof Wodiczko is a Polish artist renowned for his large-scale slide and video projections on architectural facades and monuments. Since 1980, he has created more than 70 large-scale video projections on monumental architecture worldwide, and focuses of the ways in which these monuments reflect the collective memories of the communities and history, and are often politically charged. He uses monumental Read more →

When animator and media artist Rose Bond showcased her animation works from her early years when she started by creating miniature drawings on 35mm films, such as Cerridwen’s Gift, I was awed by the intricate efforts she had put in. The whole hand-painted animation was at least eight minutes that I could not imagine how long it took for her to produce Read more →

For my Fyp, I’m looking to simulate an immersive experience of isolation in an oppressive and terrifying environment. The story revolves around a man who wakes up in the middle of a facility, only to find that everything around him does not look right. I’m looking into lovecraftian or Eldritch horror-style survival genre that is explored in games like “amnesia” Read more →

Introduction

Machiko Kusahara is an internationally recognized researcher in media art and theory, who has been publishing and curating in the interdisciplinary field connecting art, science, technology, culture, sociology and history. She is given Ph.D in engineering from University of Tokyo for her theoretical research in this field.

Kusahara’s dialogue “From the Movie Screen to Moving Screens: Life in Tokyo with Moving Read more →

Day 2 of symposium after lunch kicked off with a jolly note when Kristy announced that the tour would end at a the Smoke & Mirrors bar that day. I was really tickled that everyone kept mentioning about cocktails after that!

Tamiko, the speaker for the session started off by sharing popular examples of VR before sharing about her work in Read more →