The content of Assignment 03 is the same. It’s the form that is different.
The work will be presented in the form of an interactive* projection.
This does not have to affect the thinking about the content.
Download the information here.
*you interpret the term interactive according to your own ideas about interaction, as you have described in your answers to the question what is interactive media art?
As promised, the link to Ruben Lundgrens blog:
http://luxiaoben.blogcn.com/index.shtml
Earlier this year I was a guest lecturer at the Willem De Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. The assignment I gave the (graphic design) students was called: From I was here to where am I?. It was about my travels to China, and about the way I looked at China, and how the photos I made were showing my own, very subjective interpretations. I gave the students 1000! of my photographs as source material. Their assignment was the following:
Construct a subjective, fictional story about Beijing using 1000 photos made by me in Beijing between 2006 and 2008. Your interpretation of Beijing, based on my views of Beijing, is what is important. The photos may be cut-up, manipulated, rearranged.
Photos from their first presentation can be seen here:
http://www.remarksfromafar.com/afar_minor.html
The end results were many small publications (booklets) and one film, all using my photos as a starting point.
There was a green and a red transparent sheet. Use the one, and you could read the views of the Asian student, use the other, and you could read the views of the European student.
You can download a PDF of the whole booklet here: beijing.pdf (beware! it’s a very large file – 16 mb)
You can download a PDF of the whole booklet here: anouk_lisette.pdf
(5 mb)
china decors 2 from Natasa Lops on Vimeo.
YAH-Interactive is a design group in Beijing that specializes in both commercial and art projects, whereby interaction, animation and a lot of imagination is involved.
Checkout their weblog here: http://www.yahplus.cn/blog/onlycity在里昂/
and their main website here: http://anyah.cn/
and a experimental work here: http://yahlab.com/
They’ve just come back from France where, together with artist Liu Qiangyuan, they created an online project called: Only City
About their city of the Eye:
“Only city.org is a city constructed on Google Earth (…)by Yah Lab. They named the Only City “the City of the Eye” in Chinese which implied the capital city/the Forbidden City. Moreover, in Chinese culture the eye is the finishing touch an artist makes his work alive, It is the crucial action that gives life to anything. (…) Liu’s [Qiangyuan] real size woodcut figurines reside in the Only City and become a reflection as well as storyteller(…)”
Using Google Earth (which you could definitely call public space) they’ve created and environment where people from all over the world can connect. Woodcut characters made by Liu Qiangyuan, mix with the virtual world of games and online environments. Here are some screenshots of the site. Click on the thumbnails for larger version:
Visit the site here: - http://onlycity.org/
