Experience Mobile Mobile A gigantic interactive chandelier/mobile that plays Christmas jingles. To add a little xmas spice to the mix, anyone could go online, compose and play their own jingle (and enjoy annoying the hell out of people waiting around in the reception). This was achieved by playing the thing live, using your computer keyboard from a web browser. Mobile… Read more →
Hello guys! Breathing bags is an art installation mainly made out of ordinary plastic bags. Controlled by Arduino, each of them is selectively inflated and deflated in turn by two cooling fans. The outline shows the Singapore map, where the green bags marks the Nature Reserves in Singapore Also, thanks Kamarul and Adar for the pictures and everyone for helping… Read more →
Hello! So the past week I was learning Arduino on the web, researching on the inflatables and as well as watching Arduino tutorials. It’s been a challenge to get started as I haven’t been exposed to Arduino yet. Thankfully, the online tutorials were quite helpful and I managed to piece everything (correctly). Also, with the help of Prof LPD, I… Read more →
Hello, It’s me again. For this week, our task is to prepare three (3) potential idea-topics as part of the ‘perfect pitch’ assignment. As mentioned/presented last week, my first 2 ideas are: For the individual project, I am thinking of doing a project that can bring attention to the environmental issues associated with plastic bags. It will be an installation of… Read more →
So here’s my documentation of Interactive Spaces’ Installation – ‘The waste of plastic’. I ended up following through the idea of plastic waste, which I spent the entire recess week searching for used & smelly plastic bags from wet markets. I chose wet markets over supermarkets because of what I observed – Buyers from wet markets often use more than… Read more →
“The Tiller Girls is a group of 12 small autonomous robots. These robots were developed in Artificial Intelligence for the study of gaits given minimal freedom of movements. The robots can only balance their torsos and shoulders but they can yet achieve a large variety of expressions and behaviors.” I think it is interesting that this work was ‘inspired’ by… Read more →
Have you ever wonder what happens when we throw plastic bags away? Have you ever heard of this phrase: Reuse, reduce & recycle? I know that you have heard it a thousand times, but it’s really a good way to protect our environment today. Fortunately, more and more people today shows up to the supermarket/stores with tote bags. This concept came… Read more →
The two projects that I selected for this “hyper-essay” are ‘The Weather Project’ by Olafur Elisasson and ‘Tree’ by Ai Weiwei. I will start this text by giving a brief introduction of both projects. ‘The Weather Project’, 2003 by Olafur Eliasson showcases representations of the sun and sky that dominated the expanse of the Turbine Hall. In this project, Eliasson… Read more →
