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Project

The project will be an audiovisual installation. The visual part is constructed by 3 to 5 animation loops, each one lasts around 10 seconds. These clips describe a same scene in different scale, base on the short size and the content of the loop, project them on to each wall with different screen size. The animations will be made by hand drawing with the concept of "moving painting", to drawing each frame as detailed and realistic as possible. For the sound part, there are two plans at this moment. One is using one soundtrack to build up the environment, the other one is adding different soundtracks to each animation which relates to what specifically happening in the certain short.

The work should be installed in a dark room, and the room shouldn't be too big that viewers would be forced to stay in a limited distance to the screen.

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.

Through advanced technique, there is no doubt that we can obeserve the function of cells which constructs our physical body, monitor every single 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 safe 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.

When we talk about "nature", a general feeling is "nature" is something outside. It is not ture. If we look into the explanation of nature in wikipedia, in the first paragraph, it says :" 'Nature' refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. It ranges in scale from the subatomic to the cosmic." As a component of the earth, human being is also a part of "Nature". The air we breath everyday, the pollen floating in the air，the small potting which generates this pollen in our bedroom, they are also components of nature. Nature is not just something " out there", it is also something "in here". But, if we trace the etymology of "nature" --the latin word "natura", or "essential qualities, innate disposition", and in ancient times, literally meant "birth", something does changed. With the highly developing science and technology, we now have the ability to change the genes of creatures, and we already have done this. The "nature" in our impression, which is the " wild" in the proper context, now is more and more difficult to survive, or, can only survive by the power of civilization -- at that time, the "wild" is also not the original "wild", it is something lokks like "the wild" and living under the proof of civilization. And the concept of "Nature", also need to be changed with this inescapable artificial power.

Relation to a larger context

Hiroshi Senju <The Fall> Hiroshi Senju focuses on drawing falls and other natural objects for years, and he created a precise way to present falls. By carefully chosing the material like the paper, pigments and tools, also the space for placing the work, the light surrounding, he builds up immersive environment successfully.

Moving Painting

Practical steps

Here are some prototypes I have made.

http://vimeo.com/113225212

http://vimeo.com/113225260

test in the big project room

References

Oliver Grau Virtual Art -- From Illusion To Immersion

Gyorgy Kepes The Nature and Art of Motion

Max Luthi The Fairytale as Art Form and Portrait of Man'

[English Scripts]Earth, Sea, and Sky: Nature in Western Art: Masterpieces from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Michael Pollan "The Botany of Desire"

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-Nature is a broad word. Plants, animals, landscapes, insects, air, earth, rain, they can all be counted into nature, even our human beings. Nature also can be seen as the opposite word of "unnatural", to describe all of the phonomenon which are out of the normal rules. And the object nature, now is going away from us. It is still surrounding, functioning, growing and dying. But it now plays a weaker role in our daily life. Of course it is the result of the developing of human society, but somehow, it is also because our narcissism and overwhaming self－focus.
+==Project==
-I want to step from our original feeling to nature -- fear , to (洞穴画）。
+The project will be an audiovisual installation.
+The visual part is constructed by 3 to 5 animation loops, each one lasts around 10 seconds. These clips describe a same scene in different scale, base on the short size and the content of the loop, project them on to each wall with different screen size. The animations will be  made by   hand drawing with the concept of "moving painting", to drawing each frame as detailed and realistic as possible.
+For the sound part, there are two plans at this moment. One is using one soundtrack to build up the environment, the other one is adding different soundtracks to each animation which relates to what specifically happening in the certain short.
+The work should be installed in a dark room, and the room shouldn't be too big that viewers would be forced to stay in a limited distance to the screen.
+==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.
+Through advanced technique, there is no doubt that we can obeserve the function of cells which constructs our physical body, monitor every single 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 safe 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.
-Scale. How does scale function in our physical world and mental world? In physical world, scale is the thing to doing comparison, to measure things between each other, to describe how an object looks like. And sometimes scale is the element connects so closely to our feelings.
+When we talk about "nature", a general feeling is "nature" is something outside. It is not ture. If we look into the explanation of nature in wikipedia, in the first paragraph, it says :" 'Nature' refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. It ranges in scale from the subatomic to the cosmic."  As a component of the earth, human being is also a part of "Nature". The air we breath everyday, the pollen floating in the air，the small potting which generates this pollen in our bedroom, they are also components of nature.  Nature is not just something " out there", it is also something "in here". But, if we trace the etymology of "nature" --the latin word "natura", or "essential qualities, innate disposition", and in ancient times, literally meant "birth", something does changed. With the highly developing science and technology, we now have the ability to change the genes of creatures, and we already have done this. The "nature" in our impression, which is the " wild" in the proper context, now is more and more difficult to survive, or, can only survive by the power of civilization -- at that time, the "wild" is also not the original "wild", it is something lokks like "the wild" and living under the proof of civilization.  And the concept of "Nature", also need to be changed  with this inescapable artificial power.
-Phobia.Our fear to nature.
+==Relation to a larger context==
-fear:
+[http://www.hiroshisenju.com/exhibitions/venezia-biennale Hiroshi Senju] <The Fall>
-. happen in a moment
+Hiroshi Senju focuses on drawing falls and other natural objects for years,  and he created a precise way to present falls. By carefully chosing the material like the paper, pigments and tools, also the space for placing the work, the light surrounding, he builds up immersive environment successfully.
-. scale can trigger our feeling of fear
-.
-The reason of feeling afraid of something is very complicated. In physiological terms, fear is a feeling which can be generated in a short moment. By experiments, scientists found that fear can be traced to our amygdala, and the reactions of the amygdala are so quick that they are for all intents automatic. From zoology aspect，scale is one of the elements which can trigger our fear. It is an original feeling to all the creatures which are much larger than us since the ancient world, since " large " represents "dangerous" .
+[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oUtjjwpIN0 Moving Painting]
-Also, our instinct to avoid all the possible harm make us keep away from things we don't know. "Unknown" means " dangerous".
-fear from unknown，from the normal things in our life but when it turns into something different , out of our consiciousness, it trigger our fear.
+==Practical steps==
+<br>
+Here are some prototypes I have made. <br>
+<br>[[File:11.23.0.jpg|280px]]   [[File:11.26-2.jpg|280px]]   [[File:1 0007 img005.jpg|280px]]    [[File:1 0004 img013.jpg|300px]]
+<br>
+{{vimeo|113225212}}    {{vimeo|113225260}}
-what i should do next :
+<br><br>
-*fear comes from the transition point between unknown and known.
+[[File:DSC05002.JPG|test 1|800px]]  [[File:DSC05020.JPG|test 2|800px]]
-*we are afraid of things larger than us it is the original feeling we have since the ancient time.
+<br>
-*nature. to change our angle to see nature.
+test in the big project room
+<br>[[File:Pre-Space.jpg|400px]]  [[File:Pre-Scene1.jpg|500px]]  <br>
+==References==
+Oliver Grau ''Virtual Art -- From Illusion To Immersion''
+Gyorgy Kepes  ''The Nature and Art of Motion''
+Max Luthi ''The Fairytale as Art Form and Portrait of Man'
+[English Scripts]Earth, Sea, and Sky: Nature in Western Art: Masterpieces from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
+Michael Pollan "The Botany of Desire"