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?

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.

> Example 01
Here a Dutch student worked together with a Japanese exchange student. They had conversations about each others perceptions of the East, and turned that dialogue into a booklet:

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)

> Example 02
These students went to Amsterdam to take photographs in Chinatown there. They first made a selection of my Beijing photographs, and then went to find comparible situations in Amsterdam. This resulted in a booklet,which was cut in half, making it possible to mix the different worlds.

You can download a PDF of the whole booklet here: anouk_lisette.pdf
(5 mb)

> Example 03
This is not the final result, but part of the process of these students’ project. They found an article about the use and meaning of colour in China, and decided to organize the 100o photos by colour. They wanted to see if the use of colour in Beijing was changing. They found software online that helped create this document:

> click image to enlarge

> Example 04
Here the students chose to make a model, a kind of filmdecor, using the photos. Then using stop-motion, they made a short animation. They tried to give a sense of how it is to look at, to frame the environment that you’re in. (This is also about how it is to be an observer).

china decors 2 from Natasa Lops on Vimeo.

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/