Final project

http://www.ecuad.ca/~jlee2675/diva_finalproject.html

Google Map

My final theme is healthy life, and I connect  this final project with my urban invention symbol.F For that reason, I put  my urban invention symbol into front page.  I used buttons to go to next page. Present day many people hate walking and moving and they are to busy to do exercise. However, physical exercise is necessary to our body, so I want people realize that.

Unfortunately, The videos are not working I tried everything I can but  failed, so I upload my videos here.  video 1, 2, 3, 4

This is my third page and I used panorama photo

This is my 5th page that I used video.

Using hand to draw a sound, instead of normal drawing (Critical Review)

I went to the “Interactive Futures 09: Stereo” performances to understand what is the digital interactive art is, and what is art in the present is. I watched some performances, and one of them is “Creating DIVA and a personal Three-Dimensional Display” directed by Sidney Fels. Sidney is the director of the media and Graphic interdisciplinary center, and he combines art (fashion, music, etc.) and technology all together and then puts it into his art pieces. Now a days, we cannot live without art because art is the most powerful influence in the present; therefore, the art exists everywhere even in technology. At the end of the presentation, Sidney mentions that technology is fashion, which means, technology is developing fast like fashion. In the modern day, artists have started to combine their art with technology, and that comes out as creating a D.I.V.A, which is digital interactive visual art. I choose him for a critical review because I want to let everyone know about how the technology and art can compound together.

Sidney Fels who is the presenter of “Creating DIVA and a personal Three-Dimensional Display” is the most interesting presenter because of the title. I like three-dimension work than two dimensions because it is more active. Also I always interested and curious about DIVA because my concentration is DIVA. Before I choose my concentration, I had lots of questions about DIVA because I ever heard of DIVA before. Therefore, when I saw the title of the presentation, I thought I could get some answers for my questions. The presentation’s thesis was “DIVA: Digital Ventriloquized Actor”, Sidney Fels combines digital gesture, wearable machine, and expression all together; it comes out as a “talking glove”. Before he showed an example he explained about HCT and MAGIC. HCT focuses on human experience, which means Higher Colleges of Technology, and MAGIC is media technology and graphics. Sidney used HCT to create the ‘talking glove’. After that he shows a demon for ‘talking glove’, the person wears a glove and makes an alphabet sound with gesture. The glove can speak English and also Japanese, so they had a first performance in Japan in January 24th 09. The sound is made by a person’s hand gesture, accordingly, the person need lots of training to make a proper sound of the alphabet. Also the person can speak with her own voice, Sidney attaches a speaker on the person’s neck so we also can hear the person’s sound from their throat. Sidney wants to make the machine lighter because the person has to carry a laptop on their back and other machines all over their body. Sidney’s goal is, to make the machine easy to wear. In his presentation, I like the word wearable because I like fashion design, so I really want to attach my major with fashion and art. For that reason, after the presentation I feel some connection between technology, art and fashion. Before I saw his performances might be I made a boundary between technology and art, and Sidney’s presentation break that. For example, I thought the artists are using CS4 or robots to create a new artistic piece, the artist are not the person who creates the CS4 or robots. After performances I feel that artist also can build technology like CS4 or robot as art piece. (Robot can be the part of sculpture) Actually Sidney is successful with that. One thing that is inconvenient is I cannot see the performance live. After Sidney finished the presentation of “talking glove”, he showed P-cubee, which is three Dimension display cube and it made by MAGIC: media technologies and graphic. P-cubee is a little square box, so the person can hold it in their hand and move it around and it will shows the different perspectives of a drawing. I did not like this one. It is different with other three dimension works because it has only one perspective view, so not many people can see at one time. Therefore, I felt like capturing in the box.

Consequently, the technology is the part of art in our life. The art is getting attached to all other subjects. The artists have to develop their own artistic skills, and use many different materials to create an art piece. Therefore artist should always open their mind and get interested and learn other subjects. Sidney’s presentation and other performance were really great and these let me know, there are many ways to create art. All the performance especially Sidney’s helped me to get some ideas about digital interactive art and I realize again that art is so extensive; however, it is all connecting to each other and there are many possibilities. Over all I really enjoyed seeing all the performances and it was great.

processing workshop

I went to processing workshop on Thursday and it was amazing. Using the code as tool and draws what ever I want and this drawings are done by processing workshop

and here is the link that you can try click

my web page

go to my web page

COODLAB (video)

click the image if you want to see bigger one ( there is a horse shape inside of 6th image and the last image)

orange and edge zone

public pace and public space rarely seen

 

I worked this project with Denis. I want to make our own space in the public space so we make our own space with orange corn. The second one we putted the video camera beside the garbage can which is inside of the public market, I thought no one want to see the view under the garbage can :l  and the third one, we took a video on the south building stair which I found interesting    The edge Zone, it was hard to pick up the place and we diced to take a outside of the Opas.I guess the videos turn out what I want and really enjoyed

** (please check my Urban Invention project again there is more stuff under thanks)

The video without text

A performed gesture with orange stuff

A Public Space (rarely seen)

A Public Space

An Edge Zone

The video with text

A performed gesture with orange stuff

A Public Space (rarely seen)

A Public Space

An Edge Zone

Urban Invention

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I was trying to put my project on the donut or the ice cream store, but I couldn’t get a permission. I posted my project on the Emily Carr cafeteria, the first one is inside of the cafeteria, and second one is shooting from outside to inside. I guess many students are tired of doing their project, so they forget to do exercise. I want to remind students that we should (do) exercise while they are eating.

(more information is under)

Google 3Dmap project

http://www.ecuad.ca/~jlee2675/my3dDGproject.html

This is a website for my google map project.

The story is about a little bird who is the main character. A little bird fly around the world and view many countries.  Actually  the story is based on my biography, I add some photo instead of many text. I thought one photo is better to describe the situation, instead of using lots of words.

I shrink the photo size, but still it’s same size as original photo, I don’t know why it is not changing ;(

Fun Theory (The interactive art)

I am also taking DIVA216, and in class one of my class mate showed this interesting video in class. Many people use the escalator instead of the stair, so some artists decorate the stair with piano drawing, and add some piano’ sound. After the piano stair built, many people use the stair instead of the escalator.

While I watching this video, I feel that the interactive art is so powerful because it change people to move. Now the world is convenience, and it affects to make sluggish people. The little idea, which is like the piano stair is so useful idea in our life.

Sign project

I found some place to post my sign project which is inside of bakery and in front of the Cat’s restaurant.

This is my second idea and I post in front of the school smoke area (?!)

different versions of my symbol

I added a olympic sign inside of my sign because I thought people might gets more interesting when they sees the olympic sign (becasue olymipic is coming) and I wants that olympic sign encourage people to work out.