VISA 0120 Foundations Media: Computation + Art

Link to PDF: Faunce Arch Day

pdf_final-project_abstract

PDF: The Catholic Church Condemns

Link to PDF: Celebration Public Space

Marlee Bruning – Han Yang Lee – Lissa Mazanec

‘You are the master of your fate.
You are the captain of your soul.’

WE CONTOL TIME!!!

We chose to create a program somewhat like Paint, that enabled the user to point the wii at the screen created by two candles (placed conveniently in front of the laptop) and press ‘A’ to draw. Hitting ‘B’ enabled the user to change to a random colour. ’1′ cleared the screen.

(So called Penguin because the idea was that when one mastered this program they would be able to draw such an object.)

Aims for the future of the project:
1. Get a slide bar to adjust stroke width.
2. Create a colour palette to enable artist to choose which colour to use.
3. Simulate a better cursor.

Wish Forest (link to pdf file)

Through this project, I hope to change this rather isolated and quiet spot on campus into a place of hope, participation, and artistic value.

Unlike in previous exhibitions of ‘wish tree’ pieces such as one by Yoko Ono, participants are provided with an opportunity to choose to participate in the creation of the artwork rather than being invited to do so in a gallery setting.
Picture below shows how the public would be informed and invited to ‘wish forest’ by following the signs on the street.

Once in the space, participants make another choice whether to actually participate in the project. An instruction will ask one to write his wish on a piece of paper and attach it to one of the trees, at which moment another choice would have to be made.

By emphasizing the act of will and choice, I hope to encourage the participants to become more conscious of each step of the process of their participation. My ultimate goal is to make them conscious of the act of wish-making itself so that they are more prepared for the ritual, both emotionally and spiritually.

A wii-mote sketch By Isabel Parkes and Sean Feiner

Our Wii Processing sketch allowed the user to manipulate the dialation of the faces pupils using the wii mote.  Each eye was manipulated seperately by either roll or pitch.  It is a sketch for the greater representation of dancing and physically stimulation that occurs.  The sketch would be improved by furthering the interactivtiy of the applet by adding colored lights and possibly music to fully integrate the design with the theme.

On Monday, April 27th, 2009 at 12-2 p.m., Jina, Rhianna and I had 50 surveys completed regarding Faunce Arch Day (FAD).

The questions were:

1. On average, how often do you pass through Faunce Arch in a week?

never rarely once a few times daily multiple times a day

2. Do you ever stop to think about the arch as you pass through it?

Yes No

3. Do you think of Faunce Arch as a public space?

Yes No

4. Do you think Faunce Arch is underappreciated?

Yes No

5. Do you like the idea of ‘Faunce Arch Day’ to celebrate the arch?

Love it Sounds Fun That’d Be Okay Erm, what? No That’s ridiculous I hate it

6. Would you come to ‘Faunce Arch Day’?

Yes No

The Results of our Survey

According to our experiment of doing a survey under and nearby Faunce arch, most of the people tended to pass by the arch at least few times a week, most of them passing through the arch daily or even multiple times a day. More people never stopped to think about the arch as they passed through it. (31 didn’t and 19 did) A pretty surprising result as we were not expecting any people at all to have thought about the arch. Approximately 4 out of 5 people thought of Faunce Arch as a public space, and thought that the Faunce Arch is underappreciated. According to some people, doing our experiment(the survey), actually helped them rethink about and appreciate Faunce Arch more. Most people were either excited for or confused about the idea of ‘Faunce Arch Day’ to celebrate the arch, but no one hated the idea. 70% of the people who filled out the survey said they would or might come to ‘Faunce Arch Day’.

Our Final Conclusions:

It is important to note that the blue bars are from the surveys taken under Faunce Arch, whilst the red bars are the ones taken on the Main Green. Conclusions drawn from this survey:
• The majority of students pass through Faunce Arch with some degree of frequency.
• Although most don’t stop to think about the arch as they pass through, more than a third of them do.
• There is general consensus that it is a public space, although interestingly the fraction of students asked under Faunce Arch who see it as private (~1/3) is significantly larger than that of those who were asked on the Main Green (~1/6).
• The majority of students (78%) think Faunce Arch is underappreciated.
• There were mixed reactions to the idea of Faunce Arch Day, but the two most frequent responses were ‘Sounds fun’ and ‘Erm, what?’, suggesting that most people saw it either as a good event or else were just confused by the idea. There were also a fair number of people who thought it would be ‘okay’.
• Nearly twice as many people said they’d come to Faunce Arch Day as those who said they wouldn’t.
• Those who took the survey under Faunce Arch were significantly more willing to attend Faunce Arch Day.

After making some correlations between two of the questions, further conclusions were drawn:
• The majority of people who think it is underappreciated would come to Faunce Arch Day (and vice versa). There is no correlation between those who don’t think it’s underappreciated and wouldn’t come to Faunce Arch Day.
• The majority of students asked under Faunce Arch who think that Faunce Arch Day ‘sounds fun’ pass through it multiple times a day.
• There is no relation between those who think of this as a public space and those who think it is underappreciated.
• All of the students asked under Faunce Arch who pass through it daily think that it is underappreciated.
• Except the points stated above, there was no clear correlation between the frequency with which students passed through the arch and there answers on any of the other questions.

Here are some photos from the experiment:

Tree of Knowledge