Project Development and Planning

Mirroring Society

Much of what enters our consciousness, of course, comes from the culture around us. And like the culture, it seems that our minds are split on the subjects of race, gender, class, sexual orientation. We not only mirror the ambivalence we see in society, but also mirror it in precisely the same way.

People shaped their self-concepts based on their Read more →

Turning Points in Life :

In class, I have shared the two most important turning points in life that directed what I am doing now and what I am interested in.

1) Breaking Expectations The first major one would be breaking the expected route of continuing my studies in the Islamic religious field. I was a student from one of Singapore’s Islamic/Arabic schools Read more →

After the previous post here and presented it in the class, Kristy asked me about what group of people I would like to target for the direction of the FYP. I had not really thought about that before it, but after a week of researches and further thinking about the constraints which I will probably face while doing the Read more →

F. Y. P

idea … inspiration …  interest…

The advent of the camera and the projector is over. Feels like they’ve been around like in forever. Our cinematic experience is a numbing sensory saturation of gross entertainment.

I am still, however, currently stuck somewhere in the 70s, watching what most people will deem to be ‘crazy-crap’. On Read more →

My current Idea

Brief concept:

It is a interactive and exploratory kinetic sculpture of a marine life form/ landscape.

Why am I doing this project?

To challenge myself and showcase my skill sets, as this is probably the last project in a school setting.

Mood board for movement and styling? (what I am considering at the moment)  :

Looks futuristic yet organic at the same time

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featured image: Selfie in Prague with Frank Gehry’s Dancing House (Fred and Ginger), my all-time favorite rule-breaking, building-bending architect.

Kim Goodwin’s introduction to the book serves as a point of departure for us all to embark on a design process in digital media, by laying out some frameworks that we may find useful. Although I personally tend to find Read more →

More than year ago, I visited Amar Kanwar’s solo artist exhibition Sovereign Forest (30 Jul – 9 Oct, 2016) at the CCA. Since 2011, the New Delhi filmmaker has been committed to this ongoing research project, where he presents glimpses into the Odisha environmental conflicts.

“What happens if many kinds of silences come close Read more →

Specifics:

I thought of doing an video installation with stories to tell where there will be 4 panels or more of people’s thoughts of what family means to them or what they would like family to be? There will be head phones attached to these panels and after that there will be a puzzle piece that will fall Read more →

Idealisation

The idea to do make an interactive narrative that told the story of everyday Singaporean life. I would add in 5 short stories that allowed the player to make choices and each choice would lead to a different ending. There will not be any right or wrong choices, and whatever choices the player chose would lead to the next stage in Read more →

Profiling (& based on feedback from my peers):

1. Concern for animals – What’s right/wrong?

Related theme(s): Animal conservation, human to animal relationships, excessive/inhumane poultry farming

#1 – Animal conservation What is it? – A programme/setup that challenges the players to protect both the welfare of wild animals and mankind in a virtual world

#2 – Relationship between mankind and animals What is it? – A Read more →