Category: Project Dev. & Planning

Assignment 3: Phase 3

So, I narrow down to 2 ideas. Here are the sneak peak. Slides will be added after the presentation.

  1. A competition of a social experiment

A documentary of a competition based on a social experiment. 3 candidates (target on primary school kids). Game rule: give each of them $100. We will document the process and see after one year who will make the good use of the money. The most meaningful one will win. Any outcomes are possible. The competition tests how they manage the use of money.

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A competition of social experiment

2. An interactive wall built up by boxes. By moving the boxes, you can generate sound. It is to simulate how we deal with people the when in the public space, for instance, in the crowded train.  People need some personal space but sometimes you have to compromise it because you don’t own the space. This installation portrays sometimes how we find our own comfort zone in the public space. If there is enough time given, I would like to build a wall with boxes, it allows visitors to interact more when they walk by.

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Assignment 3: Phase 2

  1. Duo project idea using typical ADM resources with budget of max 500$, over 1 year: A competition of social experiment. 3 candidates (target on primary school kids). Game rule: give each of them $100, then we have $200 left, that will be the award for the person won in the game. We will document the process and see after one year who will make the good use of the money. The most meaningful one will win. Any outcomes are possible. The competition tests how they manage the use of money. Budget items:
    • Fund $100×3,
    • Award money $200
    • Advertisement (online application) $0 (can be created online)
    • Documentary $0 ( We have our own self camera, equipment borrowed from ADM)

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    2.  An interactive wall built up by boxes. By moving the boxes, you can generate sound. It is to simulate how we deal with people the when in the public space, for instance, in the crowded train.  People need some personal space but sometimes you have to compromise it because you don’t own the space. This installation portrays sometimes how we find our own comfort zone in the public space. If there is enough time given, I would like to build a wall with boxes, it allows visitors to interact more when they walk by.

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    There are 9 rectangular boxes in total stacking up. There is a frame to secure the boxes. People could stand in front or behind the boxes. By moving the boxes, the motor inside each box will be triggered, hence the sound will be generated.  It is to simulate how we deal with people the when in the public space, for instance, in the crowded train.  People need some personal space but sometimes you have to compromise it because you don’t own the public space. This installation portrays sometimes how we find our own comfort zone in the public space. The sound is the emotion when we get frustrated and annoyed to move to another space reluctantly.

     

 

Assignment 3: Phase 1

This is the development from the previous 2 ideas, and  add some new ideas for the project pitches.

  1.  An interactive wall built up by boxes. By moving the boxes, you can generate sound and light. It is to simulate how we deal with people the when in the public space, for instance, in the crowded train.  People need some personal space but sometimes you have to compromise it because you don’t own the space. This installation portrays sometimes how we find our own comfort zone in the public space. indi

2. Individual project idea with ADM resources plus an equipment budget of max 500$, plus your own time and effort, over 1 year:

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Individual project idea using any resources  up to a budget of 5 million, over 5 years:

Name: Test the power of money (documentary). Give money to the teenagers from orphanage. Observe how they spend it over 5 years. Choose the teenagers who are 12 years old, give them $1500 every month. Number of the teenager: 7~10

Extra money could help you do things or help learn something, who This is a test to know the whether the personal problem or social influence will affect how you use the money.

3. Duo project idea using typical ADM resources with budget of max 500$, over 1 year:

A competition of social experiment. 3 candidates (target on primary school kids). Game rule: give each of them $100, then we have $200 left, that will be the award for the person won in the game. We will document the process and see after one year who will make the good use of the money. The most meaningful one will win. Any outcomes are possible. The competition tests how they manage the use of money.

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Budget items:

  • Fund $100×3,
  • Award money $200
  • Advertisement (online application) $0 (can be created online)
  • Documentary $0 ( We have our own self camera, equipment borrowed from ADM)

4. The Guardian Angel

To make a visual object on the screen. Let’s imagine there is a screen along the pathway.

Scenario: when the surrounding is dark, and people walk through a pathway. Motion tracking will be used to track the users. There is a light source (angel figure) appearing on the screen along the pathway, guiding people to walk to the end. When the people move, the angel figure moves as well. This could combine with audio as well. I would probably need 3 people in a team to work on art, programming and the hardware. The budget of this project is depending on the size of the screen, the longer the walkway is, the more screen panels will be used. A few thousand will be spent on this.

  • Location is a tunnel. It is totally dark when you step in.
  • Technology: Projection, infra red camera tracking, motion tracking

5. Firework Display

Story: We barely see fireworks a few times once in a year during countdown or national day. The cost of firework is too expensive but everyone likes the magnificent of firework shows.

Get to immersed in the festivity ambience, you don’t have to wait for the national event to see the fireworks. Also, it is safe to get close to see the “firework” show.

Sound: crowd, explosion, people cheering

Visual: Smoke effect, lighting (LED designed patterns). Light projection (emulate the Marina Bay Sand’s laser light)

Design different patterns of fireworks, allow users to immerse the experience within a space. Create a loop for the firework show to repeat on the display again and again.

  • Technology: Audio, speaker, stroboscope, theatre smoke machine

 

Perfect pitch

Individual project idea with ADM resources plus an equipment budget of max 500$, plus your own time and effort, over 1 year:

An interactive wall built up by boxes. By moving the boxes, you can generate sound and light.

Timeline

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Individual project idea using any resources  up to a budget of 5 million, over 5 years:

Name: Test the power of money (documentary). Give money to the teenagers from orphanage. Observe how they spend it over 5 years. Choose the teenagers who are 12 years old, give them $1500 every month. Number of the teenager: 7~10

Extra money could help you do things or help learn something, who This is a test to know the whether the personal problem or social influence will affect how you use the money.

Duo project idea using typical ADM resources with budget of max 500$, over 1 year:

A competition of social experiment. 3 candidates (target on primary school kids). Game rule: give each of them $100, then we have $200 left, that will be the award for the person won in the game. We will document the process and see after one year who will make the good use of the money. The most meaningful one will win. Any outcomes are possible. The competition tests how they manage the use of money.

Budget items:

  • Fund $100×3,
  • Award money $200
  • Advertisement (online application) $0 (can be created online)
  • Documentary $0 ( We have our own self camera, equipment borrowed from ADM)

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Pitch ideas

The project inspired me is called Up Series. It is a series of documentary film produced by Granada Television that have followed the lives of fourteen British children since 1964, when they were seven years old. So far the documentary has had eight episodes spanning 56 years (one episode every seven years). The children were selected to represent the range of socio-economic backgrounds in Britain at that time, with the explicit assumption that each child’s social class predetermines their future. The motif of this documentary questions about religion, family, class, happiness and psychological state dominate many of the interviews, as well as inquiries about the worries and concerns subjects have for their future.

Reference: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058578/

Group idea

Make a documentary. Give a certain allowance for each kids, document how they use the money. Every seven year interview them on the change of their perception on spending money; what had influenced them by giving them the money, and how their family upbringing teach them to use the money in an efficient and meaningful way. It’s an on-going film. The scale and the budget of the project determine by the number of interviewees and the money given each day.

Objective: how your values determine your social class.

Individual idea

 

It inspired me to make a documentary which enables the viewer to think about this aspect: how can your values and habits determine your social class.

Time Span: In Up Series, it is an on-going documentary which spans 56 years to record the different walks of life living in different socio-economic backgrounds. For myself, I would keep the project time span within one year.

The script: by observing the children’s habits and family values, observe how they utilise the money. Give them 50 cents everyday, at the end of the year they could earn $182.50. And who will be the richest and who use it in the right way.

Objective: How habits influence you to save money

 

Rituals of remembering

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A ritual “is a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, and objects, performed in a sequestered place, and performed according to set sequence.”

In Candice’s work, there are a few rituals practised to remember her father. We also can see the objects that identify our origins and specific objects that only trigger to some people’s memory.  Eg. incense paper ad chocolate. Incense paper also reminds me of Qingming Festival, an important day to show respects to ancestors, also called Tomb Sweeping Day.

Chocolate is the food that triggers her to sneeze, which is the same as her father. Hence, consuming chocolate is a ritual to experience the same way her that father has experienced. The more the ritual repeats, the experience of understanding another person’s condition from their perspective is deeper.

 

Yayoi Kusama’s dots obsession

In this essay, two of Yayoi Kusama’s polka dot series works with be discussed. They are: The Mirrored Room–The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away. https://oss.adm.ntu.edu.sg/chou0009/2016/01/21/step-into-infinity/ and the polka dot sculptures in the infinite mirrored room. https://oss.adm.ntu.edu.sg/n1501795d/infinite-polka-dots/

Dots Obsession visually approximates the hallucinations Kusama reportedly suffered as a child, in which the entirety of her surrounding space was covered with repeating patterns. Kusama’s paintings and performance art borrowed directly from the hallucinations she has experienced by since her childhood. Kusama’s art is linked to her illness, making it a strange mixture of anguish and joy: From her paintings, which are inspired by hallucinations and visions, to her infinity rooms, which she describes as a tool to tear down the self.The installation also reveals the artist’s careful attention to the construction of space through colour and form, and to the play of light and perspective accomplished by repeating a few simple devices — creating an immersive experience from red paint, white dots, giant balloons and strategically placed mirrors.

There are two installations shared the same theme but used the different medium to exhibit.

The Infinity mirrored room with LED:

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The first room is called Infinity Mirrored Room–The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away. It was first displayed in 2013. Because the room is covered in giant pieces of mirror, it’s hard to get a read on the size of the space, but it’s roughly the size of a small bedroom. The floor is covered in a shallow pool of water, except for the peninsula you’re standing on in the middle, and the ceiling is hung with strings of hundreds of colorful LED crystals. Blinking on an erratic 45-second loop, the lights seem to stretch out forever.

The polka dot sculptures:

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Likewise, is covered in mirrors and filled with color-shifting, inflatable tentacles. They are perplexing, magical, and disorienting spaces.

The materials used in The souls of Millions of Light Year Away are wood, metal, glass mirrors, plastic, acrylic panel, rubber, LED lighting system, acrylic balls, and water. Perhaps the installation time has taken longer than the Polka Dots sculpture in the infinite mirrored room as the height and the position of LED lights will be the concern when it comes to an immersive space, people have to interact with it. Whereas, sculpture can be store at specific places. Hence the installation with lights must be taken into consideration a lot more than other projects.

Both are on going show around the world. They do not have to be site specific, just need an enclosed room to set up mirror, lights and sculptures.

Perhaps LED installation has lesser shelf time compared to sculptures. It needs power maintenance and when it comes to installation, power supply and the wires can be troublesome which might cause a lot of money to execute and maintain over years. Whereas, compared to LED, sculpture’s maintenance is relatively low especially it is made up of plastic.

The mirrors reflect infinite dots which make the space mesmerizing. Usually the crowd would wait for more than an hour just for an immersive experience in a few minutes 

Karst

After watching the film Karst (2014), there are several points that I am interested to talk about.

Does the concept of planning and building the house  applies to other project planning as well?

Is it trying to tell the relationship between the people and the house?

What is the most challenging part in the production of the film?