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| ''''''Social phobia
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| '''What?'''
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| This interactive installation is a robotic object without any practical function.
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| The body of this robot was made of white cloth and stuffed with cutton fibre, rubber pipes and red balloons. It’s nerves system was
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| built by sensors, air pumps and electronic timers. I wanted to make it cell shapes and organic forms. It was in a total passive
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| condition in which it was not able to move but to be approached and manipulated by people.This robot carried a centern character
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| which is the fear of the approach of strangers.The balloon was inflated once the air pump was activated when someone is close enough
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| to the infrared detector. the balloons started to reacte as ancious breath, inhaling and exhaling. At the same time, the electronic timer
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| controlled the volume of air to prevent frequent explosions of those red balloons. But still it was facing the danger of self-destruction
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| through its own fear.
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| '''Why?'''
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| I extracted and amplified my personal feelings into this interactive installation. It has its own personalities, which is the anxiety and fear
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| with strangers. I am amazed by all kinds of imperfection、flaws、defect and mistake. Most people consider those words represent
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| weakness or try to avoid them. However somehow I always find it very inspired. I always could find huge visual and psychological
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| power when I try to amplify certain defect. In this work I try to extract and amplify some weakness from myself in order to create
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| something not only carry anxiety but also make the viewer stressed when its anxiety reach certain point. The approach of viewers
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| causing the anxious reaction of the installation, when it about to explose, most viewers chose to step away.This kind of psychological
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| dynamic between the viewers and the artwork is the most interesting part of every interactive work.
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| '''How?'''
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| I hand sewed all the cloth together and fill it will cotton to created the body part of this work. Use rubber pipes connect air pump
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| to those balloons. Connect the sensors to air pump as a commend power switch and use electronic timer to concorl the volume of
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| air and rhyme of timing in order to create the “breathing” illusion.
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| '''To what degree the project succeeded? How could it fail?'''
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| The intention of this project is to experiment the possibility of extract my anxiety and amplified it to the installation and seek for
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| the physical and psychological feedback from viewers. As far as the interaction part being the most important element of this work.
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| The project could be consider succeeded. However the shape and the materials I chose to construct the installation failed my expectation
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| of reaching the standard of very organic cell like physical appearance.
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| ''''''Self-regeneration
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| Interactive installation with moving images and sound''''''
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| '''What?'''
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| This work was constructed as a 1.4 x 2 x 4 meter wooden tunnel. The end of the tunnel is a projection screen which allow me
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| to use moving images to built a virtual space.The virtual space is an expansion based on the physical tunnel installation, eight
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| life size figures of myself live in the virtual space.Those figures are mirror image of my thoughts , physical activities and
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| behaviors which repeat each different moment with high speed.The video was created based on the size of the tunnel space the
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| figures was base on the life size of myself. When audiences enter into the tunnel, while audiences come closer to the virtual space,
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| those eight figures will be destroyed one by one. Those figures will be regenerated later when the audiences leave the tunnel.
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| As long as this interaction continues, those figures will be infinitely killed and regenerated.The audio system of this installation
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| used eight sound producers playing individual sound track. Each sound track content heart beats, sound effect when those figures
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| shattered, and some background noises.
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| '''Why?'''
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| Self-regeneration is my graduation project. Most of my previous works are focus on my inner world or inspired by my own memory
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| or personl experience.However in my graduation project, I try to expend the context of the concept of my work. I attempted to built
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| a tunnel between the real physical world and my inner world, trying to explore the association and interaction between these two
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| worlds. How others or outside imformation affects my thoughts and my personalities. I built a virtual space , eight life size figures
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| live in the virtual space in a fragile status. These figures actually represent different character which are extracted from myself.
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| They carry my confusion, my fear, my anxiety, my ideals. They could be eassily destroied and rebuilt, as a reflaction of my metabolism
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| for mental or spirtual status.
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| '''How'''
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| Video:
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| The video was shot in front of green screen. The background is replaced For further Editing. Animated images and the virtual
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| background were created with 3Dmax and adobe Aftereffects.
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| Audio system:
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| The audio system of this installation used eight sound producers playing individual sound track as heart beats and sound effects
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| when those figures shattered.
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| Electronic parts and programming:
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| The final video were reorganized and programmed in Adobe Flash. 14 Infrared sensors were used to Connect to one USB device
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| then connect the USB device to the computer so that those sensors will be able to control the keyboard of computer in order to
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| sent command to flash project to play different videos.
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| '''To what degree the project succeeded? How could it fail?'''
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| I built an immersive enviroment, which combined space, moving images, sound and interaction which help me to deliver the idea and information I
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| wanted to express. As long as this project being interacted with one person each time. It could consider succeeded.
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| I try to avoid too many people enter the tunnel at the same time by building a tunnel only could confortable fit for one person to walk in each time.
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| But actually most of the time, viewers chose not to following the rules. So the interaction of this project become really chaotic. The images of my
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| figure randomly killed by multiple people at the same time. Which is not my original intention. However for me, as long as this project
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| attract people to participate. It’s not a huge failure. Still ,it was interesting to saw my project changed by viewers angist my intention.
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