Micro-Project 2: Crowd-Sourced Art

What is the content of the work and who is creating it?

The aim of the work was to create a song using crowd sourcing, allowing us to form a song via the services of our classmates who so kindly helped us complete the song lyrics. This project involved Qi Yun, Zi Ling and me.

The general gist of the project was for one of us to message our classmates individually and provide them with the previous sentence of the song created by another member of the class. The classmates continue to create the next line of the song while adhering to the limitations such as having a maximum of 7 words and ensuring the presence of a specific random word given by the team in the lyrics they create.

The first sentence started with “Cause you had a bad day”.

At first, we wanted each of our class mates to sing the lyrics in the tune of any nursery rhyme, allowing us to compile and form a song. However, as many of them were shy, we had to simplify it and instead our classmates created the lyrics only.

Where does this work take place?

This work took place in the classroom where most of our classmates were located at.

How does this work involve social interaction?

This work is considered social interaction because it allows and creates both direct and indirect interactions between the different members of the class. Thereby, becoming a common base for the classmates to interact at and result in a form of cooperation to come about to form something bigger, in this case to create a song together.

How is your crowd source project different from one that is created by a single artist/ creator?

Crowd sourcing allows a much bigger community to come into play and therefore increases much of the creativity, allows more brilliant ideas to be inspired and formed due to the different perspectives people have and this exchange of ideas creates greater impacts and compositions to be made.

Our turkers contributed and formulated the existence of the song. Each turker/classmate gave us “advice” on what should be done to continue the sentence despite the limitations given to them. Through these minimal interactions, the team was able to perhaps get a hint of the class’s character and take a step into getting to know our turkers better instead of indulging in ourselves.

Song:

Cause you had a bad day
Needed some help sian to the max
Chicken essence helps the brain think faster
Smell my shoes pikachu
Oh how very tree-rible it is
Hey soul sister
Meeting an old friend down the town
Baby you the reason I frown

(Bold words represent the essential word required to be in the lyrics.)

Link to video: https://youtu.be/cUGu5CmbLr4

 

 

 

Micro Project 1: Creating the Third Space


Why did you choose this space or object to photograph?

This space showcases the infrastructure of the whole building of ADM made of glass and also the empty green fields on the top of the school. It makes me proud as many of my school mates envy our school’s special infrastructure. Most importantly, it was because the building encompassed the meaning of design within it which made it significant to me as a design student who studies there.

What are some of the characteristics of this alternative virtual space you had created collectively?

The virtual space created involves many different perspectives, ideas and inspirations behind each photo and angle placed to capture the essence of the image. It mapped out a new ADM for me exploring places that I have yet to see. Furthermore, each caption gave me a glimpse and hint of the photographer and the possible significant representation it may have to the person. It became a collection of not just places but a record of how ADM is special to each of us.

Under what circumstances will this alternative virtual space change?

When the people within the buildings have changed, our level of understanding and attachment to the school changes as we go along the years from freshmen to seniors to graduates. Hence, when we look at the virtual space, it can become a form of excitement, progress, history and longing depending on the stage we are at.

Perhaps, when the people viewing the photos have no prior knowledge of the place being photographed, the different scenes in a single location may confuse the viewer. (Image of the building VS Image of the green/forested area). Filters may also affect how the virtual space is viewed.

How does this project relate to what we discussed in the lecture regarding co-creation, the concept of  Do-It-Yourself (DIY) and Do-It-With-Others (DIWO)?

Deciding on the location and taking the photo is generally the work of one person and involves more of the concept of DIY. However, as we move around with each other to the different locations, we often get inspired by the photos and concepts of our friends, giving us an opportunity to discuss and share with one another.

Furthermore, when the different images that were captured are place together using a similar hashtag, #1010adm, I think it becomes a concept of DIWO more than DIY. Despite all of us being in adm, we took pictures of vastly different areas in order to create a new virtual view of ADM.

To an unknown viewer, these images map out and create a perception to those who see the images, such as having both nature and classy infrastructures.

 Even though it was an individual decision on how and where we took the photos, together it provided and allows viewers to come up with one single perception of a place for others to view, thereby bringing all of our individual works together to form something bigger. Hence, the concept of DIWO.

 

Yoko Ono’s Cut Piece

How does it change the viewer’s relationship to the work?

The viewer and audience now have the freedom to create something without any boundaries that are usually provided by the artist. It is likely to have more impact and be more meaningful to the different audiences depending on their age and gender. The creator becomes the objectified target of the audience while viewers themselves become the creator. Furthermore, the creation is a collaborative work by the viewers themselves, domino effect where the previous decision on the work influences the next decision.

How does it alter the way an artist or designer create the work, when there is an interactive component?

The interactive component allows the artist to create a form of life in the experience itself. Instead of simply “seeing”, the audience now “seeing, doing, hearing and feeling”. The interactive aspect brings in much more senses of the audience and evokes more emotions in them through such components.

For this piece of work:

  • Seeing: How people reacted to the piece of garment being cut away; The size of the piece of garment being cut away; The change in the size being cut by different genders.
  • Doing: Cutting the garment itself as to how much to cut; Where to cut; What are the boundaries.
  • Hearing: The sound of the scissors, even if one does not see, he or she may estimate how much of the garment was cut away.
  • Feeling: Moving from being hesitant to being daring; Passive to active behavior.