Category: Micro-Project

Joan's phone

Technical testing with Joan

September 21, 2017 / / 2 Comments

Testing 1 (Hannah phone, Joan computer)

The first test run was still pretty laggy despite the change of location especially during the first half of the video. It might be due to weak internet near the toilet and fetching of the live video through OBS was very slow. Despite the interrupted connection, the live footage from the phone was very smooth. We then decided to exchange the devices and conduct another test.

Joan’s computer screen

https://www.facebook.com/joan.li.165/videos/10155514960498819/

Hannah’s phone

https://www.facebook.com/littleangel.hannah/videos/10159296997045425/

 

Testing 2 (Joan phone, Hannah computer)

Both the phone and computer were streamed from the same location. The second test was slightly smoother probably due to newer devices and stronger internet connection. We figured that we have to decide on a new location for the phone user for smoother broadcast.

Joan’s phone

https://www.facebook.com/joan.li.165/videos/10155515000178819/

Hannah’s computer screen

https://www.facebook.com/littleangel.hannah/videos/10159297026385425/

My Desktop stage performance. OBS with Facebook live.

OBS experience

September 13, 2017 / / 1 Comment

My Desktop stage performance. OBS with Facebook live.

I feel that through a desktop it tells the stories and narratives of our personal everyday lives as we interact with our desktop. Not only that the different sounds that we play on it could be an orchestra performing together to create a musical/ sound which tells the story of our personality. I think the reason we reveal what we are doing in the privacy of our personal computer is to show people what we do so that we can start a trend or to create a conversation among our friends who are abroad/ disconnected with what we do.

The different creative possibilities of desktop performance are having multiple desktop together and playing different things at the same time, doing a live performance with people abroad together, having four screens on one screen and adding filters to create special effects, having attach robotic limbs on the desktop and letting it walk around to film people live as to what they are doing to show the culture of the country of visit.

My Desktop stage performance. OBS with Facebook live.

I think we can explore the way we interact with different kinds of people and create a sense of overlap which shows some kind of glitch effect. We also can create artworks together via our body languages and changing our speech to machine languages. We can create fictional imaginative stories as we act out different sections and have the others to continue the story which gives a new perspective of how the person is like.

I personally think that OBS is like a stage of a play where what I do (performance) is seen by everyone (audience) and the world is able to see what I am doing on a everyday basis via Facebook live. People around will be able to see what I am doing and people also can share what they normally do via their own desktop. We can share information and see what others usually serve the web for or we can tell their personalities through the interaction with their desktop.

Image of Trailer de Open Windows. Credits: YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bUOWzu3qCg

This reminds me of a movie ‘Open Window’ where the main character gets to see a live feed of an actress that he was crazy about through a hacker. Later he made the actress and the people around her face danger due to a harmless live feed link sent by a hacker, whom he does not even know personally but through social media, to stalk the actress. I feel that sharing my own personal stuff via social media live could endanger me from getting exposed to strange people therefore I am reluctant to share my personal stuff online especially social media platforms. Despite being good to be connected to the world but the dangers that lurks behind all these, makes me uncomfortable to share my desktop online. People may say that it may or will not happen to me but there is always that risk which is not worth while since the world out there is a dangerous place and you do not know what will happen next.

Video of OBS via Facebook live:
https://www.facebook.com/littleangel.hannah/videos/10159254783170425/
P.S: I realised that when I tried to copy the link via the Facebook group I am unable to show the video but when I video my other work on my own personal live stream the video is able to pop up, I tried unlinking to  not embedding the video but it does not seem to work. Could it be due to it being in a closed group on Facebook? Please advice.

 

Collective Body

The collective body

September 1, 2017 / / 0 Comments

The Collective Body

Collective Body

Collective Body

The collective body project makes me see how different parts of our body gestures can show our personalities and how it interacts with the other person’s photo posted. It influences the way I would react when I see the photos of the class being put together. It made me think that the human figure in the digital age can be deceiving as we only can see one view of how the person would portray themselves to be when the photo is taken. We may change or edit our photos to make others impressed with different parts of our bodies even if we are unhappy with them. When different people post different parts of their bodies on the same day I see that a story is being unfolded where different photos put together can tell a story. Since we are doing all together it seems that we are participating in this activity together showing a collective composite of selves. The composite body reflects how we show another part of ourselves differently and would always portray ourselves in a more cautious manner when we post photos of ourselves on the internet. This will cause others to misinterpret how we actually are in real life or remember us because of the photos we post and comment on how we are in real life.

Collective Body Live

Alter ego: The monochrome me

Video Double

August 23, 2017 / / 1 Comment

Alter Ego

 

Alter ego: The monochrome me

Alter ego: The colourful me

Video and social media gives people the opportunity to disguise themselves and show what they want to portray since people would not know who they really are. This causes people to have a false impression of them where they can be nice in front of their live broadcast but actually they have the worst of personality in front of their friends.

Personally I want to be an interactive artist where I can explore art installations, performance art and web based platform such as website design. I feel that the way I portray to others may seem that I am a jack of all trades and master of none since I try to experiment different art styles. I feel that video and social media alter my identity where I must be an extremely good artist to be where I am but I could be still learning different areas or even finding what I am actually interested in. It also conceals my identity since I only show works that are fully completed instead of the work of progress and fear that people would judge my work in a negative way. I feel that the environment around me affects what I think about myself. When my friends criticise or compare my work I feel a sense of inferiority where I thought that I could done better. 

Internet art and culture: assignment 2

Posted by Hannah Kwah on Tuesday, 22 August 2017

Alter ego video

The video which I have captured is how I view myself as an artist, a person who wants to try out different art styles or interaction design and wanting to be around people to network. This is shown through the shapes and lines weights. However when people take away those areas I feel empty and lonely.

The monochrome shapes shows the actual person I am, minimal and simple. When people and environment surrounding me changes and takes away who I am, it makes me want to create a new identity where the monochrome shapes are being replaced to colourful shapes where I create a new identity for myself. 

Real Time Aggregation

Real Time Aggregation

August 20, 2017 / / 3 Comments

Before the broadcasting
When I first heard that the assignment was to be on Facebook live, I was quite skeptical about it as I do not use Facebook anymore. Not only that, I have never done any real time video of myself before even though I have seen my friends doing live feeds on their Instagram or Facebook. Sometimes, they would also film me in their live feeds.

However, when a similar project was shown in class and also seeing different people doing different things at the same time seems quite interesting. This causes me to change my perception of live broadcast. It was quite nerve-wrecking and exciting at the same time as I did not know what to expect. I struggled to find how to go live on Facebook and where the live button was before the broadcast started.

Real Time Aggregation

During the broadcasting
When the in class project started, I was at a loss despite being excited since I had never done a broadcasting before not to mention a live feed. I did not know where to head to in school since we could go anywhere for 15 minutes. I knew that people on my Facebook could see me talking to myself and also seeing the environment I was in. In that moment, I felt exposed so I decided to show my surroundings instead of myself and I did not know what to talk on live.

I always thought that broadcasting are for people showcasing their art talent or those who could talk anything under the sun to entertain people. I decided to just walk aimlessly and see what interesting things I could find or people I knew in school that I could converse with while going live so that it would not be too awkward for me. When I bump into my classmates during this project I felt at ease as I was not alone and slowly I started to adapt to being on live. I started to venture off myself around the school and became more comfortable showing myself with the environment I was in.

Real Time Aggregation Video

Social broadcasting for internet art and culture

Posted by Hannah Kwah on Thursday, 17 August 2017

Viewing social broadcasting together (individual vs. collective)
I felt that when I was doing the broadcast individually, I felt awkward at first but at the same time I did not felt people was actually watching what I was filming and over time I became more comfortable doing a live feed. However when everyone is looking at all the videos at the same time, I felt embarrassed. It was because I could see myself appearing on others video and saying silly things too. It was quite amusing to hear how others reacted to their live feeds and how we overlapped on each others’ broadcast. When viewing all as a whole, I saw how the same moments and locations are filmed differently which shows our own personalities in a way. I had fun throughout this project and being able to see from different peoples’ perspective.

The space I explored made me more conscious and what is viewed through my own eyes versus when I saw it through a live broadcast was two separate experience. I felt that I became more critical of the place I was in when I viewed myself again and how people would have viewed me when they see the broadcast. The usual space seems big but through the screen the space seems much smaller and more confined. Through this project I start to appreciate the space I was in and how the interaction with my friends differed through real life and live broadcasting.

Conclusion
Through social broadcasting, I was able to experience a different kind of interaction and seeing at I could be exposed through a simple social media platform made me scared too. Social broadcasting enables oneself to hide their true personality and identity from others so that they could appeal to others. Not only that, I realised that I just captured whatever caught my eyes and was more keen to film people I know rather than myself. This project made me experience going live through Facebook for the first time and how different people perceive the same space differently.