User:Nan Wang/ index-thesis

“For the microscopic debris that covers our clothes and bodies are the mute witnesses, sure and faithful, of all our movements and of all our encounters.” Every contact leave a trace is a term from Edmond for analysis crime scene, however as a filmmaker and media artist. I take it as a comparison with contact print on film. I took the evident of my existence. Force it to leave a trace. • Manifest a story, which is not yet been decrypted.

Chapter 1: the story of dust

Let’s say, everything starts with dust.

1, what is dust? (Forensic reference: Locard, Edmond, The Analysis of Dust Traces, American Journal of Police Science, 1(3), 1930, 279-298. , how to look at dust and trace to deduction a crime, however, I am looking at dust try to let audience to construct images and narrative by themselves/)

2, culture interpretations of dust. ( at certain environment or scenario related to big political or cultural events, dust become a mediated object.)- impure matter.

3, What’s my interpretation of dust?( reference from skin study, how much percentage of house dust is human skin. From BBC .)

 If you're wondering exactly how many skin cells fall off, get ready for some staggering numbers. Scientists estimate that the human body is made up of around 10 trillion cells in total. Your skin makes up about 16 percent of your body weight, which means you have roughly 1.6 trillion skin cells [source: BBC]. Of course, this estimate can vary tremendously according to a person's size. The important thing is that you have a lot of skin cells. Of those billions of skin cells, between 30,000 and 40,000 of them fall off every hour. Over a 24-hour period, you lose almost a million skin cells [source: Boston Globe].

Where do they all go? The dust that collects on your tables, TV, windowsills and on those picture frames that are so hard to get clean is made mostly from dead human skin cells. In other words, your house is filled with former bits of yourself. In one year, you'll shed more than 8 pounds (3.6 kilograms) of dead skin. -→

Our bodies are constantly processing the sloughed excess and waste produced by our contact with other species or by the frictions occurring between different specimens. And we in turn deposit minute trace evidence of our passage through space and in time wherever we move and whenever we make contact with another surface. →

my research method of using dust material to let audience take the active position as viewer and investigator to construct the story by themselves.

Chapter 2: Put dust on film:

1, I will try to search and compare my dust works with and structure film and current audiovisual performance. Researching the similarities and differences between these works and my work.

2, How to sort out randomness and chaos. By manipulating(editing) images.

3, my fetish of Shapes and materials. Problematic aspects.

From this part of thesis, I start to includes my works and practical hands on research.

Chapter 3:About experience and manipulation:

1,Where to place the screen-→ expanded cinema->psychological impact.

2,Sound leading your eyes.-> synaesthesia

3,About traditional cinema and the nature of manipulation image and concept of film-> my journey from image to abstraction structure film(it is hard to define what is structure materialism film become it is difficult to not to embed narrative or manipulation inside a film)-> all images put on screen have been manipulated and layers of mediation.