Proposal

For my project I would like to use processing to sort the images with tags and create a bigger picture with the certain tag. I would like to focus on the keyword “clouds”. I would create a geometric construction with origami for the colours of the image chosen for that day. The shape would depend on the amount of colour in the image.
The idea is similar to Chris Jordan’s work and Boris Muller. I would use an electronic mean to get the data via a program source and code. I would then take that one image of the day and create a physical interpretation of the image with the colour in the image and a different origami shape.

The story my piece will tell is the images in Flickr modified to a 3D physical interpretation.

Some examples of shapes:
rotating tetrahedra
Five Intersecting Tetrahedra
Cherry Blossom Ku-Kusudama
Kusudama

The Science Centre Experience

We meet up on Bond Street to ride the yellow school bus to ride to the Ontario Science Centre. We got there before 10 so we waited outside and looked at the pieces that were on display outside. The pieces outside did not watch my attention as anything I would like to write about. When we went into the building there was the David Rokeby Cloud before we went downstairs. The piece was interesting but I wanted to see other pieces first. When we went in to the Weston Family Innovation Centre. My first impression of area was that it was interesting. There were a lot of kids there trying out everything.
The item that caught my eye was the bubble wall. I found it interesting and I didn’t know what it was there for in the beginning. I looked at the wall for a bit and went around to the other areas to study the different stations and watch the kids interacting with the area. I went to the area with the bubble wall. The station said “Pipe Dream” as the name unlike what I thought the name was which was bubble wall. It actually takes your image from a webcam that is installed beside a screen. The image is taken in black and white. The picture looks like it is placed on a grid type for when the bubbles actually appear. The piece was more interesting after I found out that it takes the image from a webcam to place in bubbles. The audience at one point didn’t really seem to be interested in the piece. After awhile then I see people start to notice it and try to take pictures of themselves to place in bubbles. There was a kid that was trying to go right up close to the pipes. I tried it once and took a video and pictures of the experience. Then I stood there studying other people’s reaction to the piece.
The piece was really big and was in a way centred in the experience of the Weston Family Innovation Centre. The piece went from the ceiling to the floor. The piece has many pipes that were horizontal. The scale of the piece makes it hard to not notice the piece. It makes you wonder what it is doing and makes you want to go close to it. The technology does change the scale of the piece. It makes more people involved with it and it becomes a shared experience rather than a single person affected. The people around will see the picture of the person appearing in bubbles. It becomes a piece that is responsive. It causes others to want to try the piece and seek answers to their curiosity.
The space provides the rules needed to successfully use the camera and convert it to the pipes. The piece doesn’t give many options to do things. You can do different poses but the webcam is mounted to a certain place and is constrained to only take that space. There is also the problem of the black and white colour since it makes the image a bit to hard to see at times. I found certain colours and details blending to make it disappear.
The materials that I can tell in the piece are webcam, monitor, clear plastic tubes, water, microprocessors, wire, and other electronic parts. I don’t think it is heavy but the piece seems fragile so they blocked off the pipes. I think it probably can be dangerous and easy to break by accident.
The two sections make them seem separated from each other. I didn’t think they were for the same thing until I made my rounds to everything. If you were sitting in the “booth” then you will feel as if it was a full experience but from the view of an outsider then it doesn’t seem that way. You would wonder how they get the image or what that is but not see the full experience.

Images to be added later.

Exquisite Corpse

Exquisite Corpse

Research Blog 1

I was surfing online to the processing website to search up some codes to do the network exquisite corpse. I stumbled upon the ‘Body Navigation’ project on the exhibition section on the first page.
It reminded me of Merce Cunningham’s dances that incorporated videos. I liked the way the dancers can interact with the piece and with other dancers. The music follows well with the movements in the piece. The piece incorporates many different visual effects to keep the people watching interested. I found myself mesmerized by the piece. I watched it a few times just to catch all the little details. The floor looked like the screen in processing with the effects that can be coded like having lines or shapes follow the mouse. It gave me a little bit of inspiration towards what to do for my coding in the networked exquisite corpse assignment. The impact may not be as strong as the giant floor that is being projected as the screen. The way the piece flows with the music is very inspirational. The piece does not add sound just to show off to make the world know they can put sound into it. The music helped create the perfect atmosphere for the dance and the performance with the screen on the floor.
It is related to the class because of the way the piece deals with “networking”. The piece requires many different technologies using a network to make it work. The dancers are networked to make the dance piece work without major problems.

Network(ed)

The assignment requires us to create something that is a network that we use everyday. I decided to use one network that I use often which was public transit. I decided to use items that are seen and used in the use of the public transit. I used subway transfers, bus transfers, ttc map, and other colourful papers. The big shape is made of ttc maps to represent to routes of bus transports. The smaller attached bus transfer and subway transfers. The next layer below is the colourful shapes that represent garbage that is on the subway or buses.

This is the completed piece:

This is a close-up of the detail:

This is a close-up of the detail:

This is a close-up of the detail of the bigger shape:

This is what the shape is made out of:

This is when the shape is being put together:

Documentation

The piece I created was little monsters and people that are made of cloth and bubble wrap. The monsters and people are filled with bubblewrap instead of cotton. The reason is to have the people interact with the piece and figure out to pop them. It is somewhat like a stress ball that has a cute shape. I think the people will wonder what to do with them in the beginning and be afraid to pop them.

The monsters and people would be like regular plush toys that can be kept on a shelf after they are popped.

The idea mostly came to me because I am interested in textile based work. I like to collect toys and figures of monsters and anime related. I’m drawn into cute things and interesting looking things.