Month: August 2019
Micro Project 0. Displacement on The Networked Space
If the images cannot be seen in the link above, here they are.
This is a series of photos that is a first-hand experience of the way I move to this hidden spot in this ADM building. The hidden spot is often a place not a lot of people dare to visit, because there’s no point taking the emergency staircase when there’s a lift outside and open staircases where you are in view of everybody in the building.
This place is a prayer area for Muslim students to pray. It is actually a make-shift one, that means past students who came here probably came up with the idea of laying out a plastic mat, bought some prayer rugs and all other essentials to make this space specially catered to anyone who would wish to perform their daily prayers during their time in school. And eventually, due to word of mouth, more and more students manage to find a good space to perform their daily rituals with essentials.
I used multiple pictures to show from first person’s point of view, how to naviagte through this hidden space – where you open two doors, climb up staircases and find this space. It is probably not known to many, except a small minority of us in the ADM community – and this ironically, is a hidden space that only is not so much of a secret anymore to some of us.
Assignment 1: Review of Past Works
Reflect on the challenges and discoveries that you’ve made in your work and progress at ADM and be prepared to give a presentation next week sharing works that you think illustrate as story about those challenges and discoveries about yourself and your interests while at ADM.
- Tree Project
- Mixed Media project
- Data visualization
- Rain-bow Violin using LED strips
Challenges and Discoveries:
Tree Project – Need to develop a stronger foundation in following – Arduino, and Processing aside from playing a supporting/ idea directory role in Tree Project, the conceptual understanding of tree was well received and it was one of the stronger projects that suited my interests (theme was Interstices; tree as a stationary object often overlooked, but added electrical elements in the branches such as servo motor attached to small wooden planks allows it to move, ultra sound sensor was also connected to it)
Mixed Media Project – Video projection over drawn canvases as a follow up to A Level artwork, using similar forms of medium – camera, video projector and drawings on canvas. Using the Optoma and video projection softwares allowed me to explore different ways of using software to play different clips simultaneously, relatively able to complete them in a short amount of time due to familiarity with using video projector, proper planning
Data visualization – Initial idea was to showcase a Singapore map, and feature symbols of different races using small circles representing a person of each race, each race is signified through use of dots on the map, and to show continuous progress of each demographic by looking at yearly trends, theme was on progress of education for each race from a timespan of 2000-2015, discoveries – data is often private and difficult to get statistics on latest trends.
Rain-bow – worked alongside Ying Hui in coming up with idea of making of attaching a string of LED on the bow, and connecting it a Arduinofruit on a handglove – the accelerometer in Arduiofruit is coded to the LED light, such that every x,y,z movement made when a person plays with the bow, the led light rises/dips. Biggest challenge was using the accelerometer in arduino – where we had to change x,y,z values many times so that we could get the LED strip to light up.