User:Chen Junyu/Graduation Project Seminar/project proposal/Proposal2

1.specific examples and sketches of possible outcomes and past experiments

2.concrete proposals and prototypes of your own work as well as the contest in which that work sits.What will you create that expresses your vision and your subjective position on the topics you are exploring.

Project

The project would be an audiovisual installation, represent the relation between nature and human being. I would like to use 2d hand drawing animation as the tool of visualizing the

Q: 1. go inside ,user's experience 2. change the first sentances 3.technique and the possibilities of the animation.

Introduction

After the research for EMO(Giants and Little People)[1] I have slightly moved further with the word "Scale". Since we born in this world, the scale of the world for us is always changing, it changes with the grow and shrink of our physical body, also relies on the understanding or our emotion/feeling to the world. At a macro level, out general understanding of this world is also changing by the time, such as the conversion of public perception from Geocentrism to Heliocentrism or the changing of peoples' feeling to nature presented in the western painting history.

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Lascaux Caves

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Claude Gellée - Paysage avec la fuite en Égypte

Quoted from the English scripts of Earth, Sea, and Sky: Nature in Western Art: Masterpieces from The Metropolitan Museum of Art: From early times, people struggling to understand powerful natural forces imagined them as human in order to mitigate their fear of the unknown. The tradition of personifying nature continues to this day, for example in the practice of giving personal names to hurricanes.

Through advanced technique, there is no doubt that we can obeserve the function of cells which constructs our physical body, monitor every singal moment of a chemical reaction and simulate the process of a black hole having its food. On one hand the scale for measuring the world is gaining its datas, on the other hand, it doesn't bring a big difference on our perception to the world. We still live in the same model of cities or towns designed and built hundred years ago, the scale of buildings or roads didn't experience big difference in the past years. We feel save living in the artificial world, and, we are escaping from or eating out the outside nature. Maybe only when we stand alone in a wild forest without any human life's evidence, we finally can feel the original fear or the awareness of our tininess as human being did thougsand years ago.

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Beautiful Chemical Reactions by L2 Molecule

Relation to a larger context

[Nature/art/scale]:Western

The oldest known paintings are the Grotte Chauvet in France, the paintings show horses, rhinoceros, lions, buffalo, mammoth, abstract designs and what are possibly partial human figures. These paintings are thought as the respect for nature, or for the gain of prey.