Closeup
Exhibition
@ School of Arts, Design and Media, NTU
MEDIA WALL
LED
15m by 2m
Media Art Nexus NTU
Actual Exhibition
@ North Spine, NTU
SWATCHBOOK
APPLICATION
Based on my concept, “new door god”, I planed to design a door god poster. It contains a main god in the center and several elements surrounded.
Main God
I chose to use Apple and Steve Jobs as my main visual representation. Replacing the logo to a pear shape adds a subtle pun.
Steve Jobs as fortune god(left) and general(right)
Ritual tools
Referencing from how Chinese people worship their ancestor and god, I created Apple-related sacrifices and Ritual tools.
Servants
Mock-up
This is the first try-out with all elements, based on traditional fortune god door poster.
Door gods or Menshen(门神) are divine guardians of doors and gates in Chinese folk religions, used to protect against evil influences or to encourage the entrance of positive ones.
Category
The patterns often attract my attention when I pass by. It made me think that something supernatural is guarding the house.
Moodboard 1
Inspired by Ai weiwei‘s Door gods posters, I want to add some current elements that are more relevant to our generation. Nowadays, there are many new ‘gods’ that we worship to, like Steve Jobs, Elon musk or Jack Ma.
Moodboard 2
Inspired by a Chinese illustration artist, Song Xiaqi, based in Shanghai. His illustration embraces the tradition and re-touches it with contemporary feelings.
I like how he uses thick strokes and the way he treated each graphical elements.
Moodboard 3
Another approach is go for abstraction. Since the banner is very long and narrow, abstract patterns will give a strong visual impact.
Panel testing
Based on Aiweiwei’s work, I created a rough styleframe to see if the elements work together on a long narrow panel.
2017
Experimental film
3840×480 pixels
About
An experimental film which describes a life cycle of various abstract forms, from birth, maturation to death and allows audience to judge what creature they look like by imagination.
With the help of chemical reaction of putting food coloring in milk, the coloring molecules are pushed away to different directions continuously by milk molecules, which creates an unexpected “color explosion”. The autonomous chemistry not only creates chaos and but also serendipity and inspiration.
Media wall @ North Spine, NTU
Photo by Solomon Qeuk Jialiang
It is an experimental film which describes a life cycle of various abstract creatures, from birth, maturation to death.
With the help of simple chemical reaction in milk, it also allows audience to experience an immersive visual-journey.
PSYCHEDELIC REVIVAL, Moment Factory
Because of the nature of dish soap, it will push away the paint molecules to different directions continuously, which creates a color explosion.
The autonomous chemistry not only creates chaos and but also the freedom of imagination and inspiration.
Experiement by ValincoTV
Experiement by artFido
I used Adobe After Effects to compose my shots, which is designed for motion graphics design mainly.
After the initial shoot, I realize some problems immediately:
The good solution is mirroring the same footage.
Approach 1
By only flipping once and feathering the edges, the visual becomes like a lively and organic thing, a brain, a face and a creature.
Approach 2
By flipping 4 footages, it creates a nice pattern but doesn’t look like a live thing.
I decided to go for approach 1 which is more organic.
Reference from 3d model design as well as sci-fi movies, like <The Thing>, <Alien> and <Prometheus>.
Mood of mystery, alienation and isolation.
It reminds me an ancient creature from Chinese culture called Taotie, which is often casted on bronze vessels dated back thousands of years ago from Shang and Zhou dynasty.
In ancient Chinese mythology, taotie (饕餮) is one of the “four evil creatures of the world” along with Hundun (渾沌), Qiongqi (窮奇)and Taowu (梼杌).
It has a very symmetrical deign with prominent facial features standing out.
Taotie on a ding bronze vessel from late Shang era
I’m using food coloring instead this time. Because it has more saturated color in milk
I tried to avoid more than 3 colors, or it will turn out too messy and formless.
After consulting, the choice of music seems to be a problem. The current one is a bit club-sounded. It needs more strangeness and Alien sound elements.
So I decided to browse more music options, here are 5 selected scores that I think is suitable.
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