I chose to translate my favourite video, starring Muffy and Linette! I played with the humour of the video using a MousePressed function. I felt that it was perhaps too simple so tried adding other functions to the it, but it wasn’t as effective, so I removed them.
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:
This piece takes further my idea from last self-portrait assignment of the self as an ungraspable and mysterious entity. Searching for the concept of self within the framework of one’s own mind results in an endless chase, while taking a step outside of the search and changing one’s point of view (represented by the clicking of the mouse) might bring an unexpected moment of revelation (transition to a new background).
This interactive piece focuses on the theme of urban play. It puts the user in a free form urban space where the paths in daily urban life are constantly tread. However, with a click and hold of a button, the very same paths are illuminated with wild and exciting variations and a whole new perspective of urban life can be discovered via freerunning. However, it is important to constantly reinvent one’s perspective in the urban environment or be stuck in the same cycle all over again.
Man Aging
This is a portrait of a man between the age of one and thirty. The sequence of photos is displayed in a fast moving manner to represent how sometimes we feel the years passing by so quickly that we do not notice when we are getting older. The idea is to have the audience interact with the piece by stopping the sequence with a mouse click. Every click shows a different still picture of the person and allows the viewer to see how the effects of age transform the man’s traits.
Controls: Move the mouse to stamp the picture on top of the background. Click the mouse to cycle through different stampable images.
My piece is a reflection on the effect of religion (specifically Christianity) on young children. The religious imagery covers up the children as it is drawn onto the background, eventually covering them entirely. This is meant to parallel the way that religion effects thought in children. Religious teaching becomes further ingrained in the mind over time until it is unclear if someone is thinking for himself any longer.
The cycle: Mouse clicks, a tree grows. The leaves continue to fall — products of the trees they have fertilized. This processing piece shows the cyclical transformation occurring in nature. Interact.
I intend to use the ‘mousepressed’ option to flicker between Muffy and Linette, my crazy furry boots, looking like dogs, and an image of me looking like I have stuffed my feet in their mouths. I would also location of the mouse to serve some function, but I plan on figuring that out using experimentation.
Working with & attempting to reinterpret the imagery found in my billow video, I developed the processing form of “giggle & go on”, a saying used in dispiriting circumstances.
For this project my goal was to translate or revisit one of the works previously done in some way through processing. I chose to alleviate a doubled “gap” in my animation (which was ultimately a translation of the collage). This gap is the moment in the video loop when the medieval characters enter into one doorway exiting through another. They are literally “swallowed up,” I wanted to bring this to light through darkness. To do this I created an applet that features an array of images newly created using pictures of caves and rock formations to create spaces in which I could place the original characters and new creatures that were found in both of my previous works. The applet functions by allowing the user to create a window of vision through use of the mouse, hence feeling one’s way through the dark. In addition, one can click to find the next scene of the cave journey, yet ultimately the images cycle as one loop.
Here is the artwork behind the project:
