You Are Here

First Studio project at DMI, You Are Here is a interactive happening.

Although I couldn’t attend first class, I managed to send a Boston postcard saying “I am here” to the class along with a short video presentation, interjecting with the audience.

I have sent postcards to all my friends and family to announce my new life in Boston. Postcards & Greetings cards have always been an enjoyable tradition. There is an interesting relationship between postcards and time. Postcards are the only object that are sent in the PRESENT, to talk about the PAST, and to be received in the FUTURE.

The Perfect Humanstrument

Inspired by the movie the Perfect Human by Juergen Leth, I was interested the dancing movements of the male character, imagining him dancing on a variety of music (cf the perfect human mix) and creating a musical tool made of touch screens (ipad, iphones) on different parts of the body.

Mysterious Ingredient

During my first semester at DMI, I created “multi-sensory muffins” with a mysterious ingredient which had been provided to us by Professor Gunta Kaza, who invited us to respond visually to the unidentified plant she had provided.
I documented the muffins’ preparation with an edited slideshow with upbeat music, and surprised my classmates with the final products for tasting. Even though I was fairly transparent about the process, it was interesting to see some classmates refusing to taste the muffins, as they couldn’t identify the plant.
Those reactions surprised me, and I made the analogy with eating industrial food: We don’t know how it is made, but we still buy and eat it!

Drawing tool

Inspired by Olafur Eliasson paints created by the movement of the train, my drawing tool is created by my bikerides from my home in Arlington to the Minuteman Rail, using a variety of drawing tools (ink, paint, highlighters, etc.)

Interconnexions

We explored the nature of this dynamic media by considering the role of the digital archive as an interface to organizing and cross-referencing a historical collection of creative work, and exploring
how that organizational structure can be visualized in a creative and dynamic way. In short, our project was the research, organization, planning, design, and prototyping of a visual “holistic” encyclopedia of the arts.

I used a list of art related projects that inspires me as data and prototyped tangible objects as the medium to trigger the new media.

Chips

Chips is musical piece made out of eating chips crunchy sounds.

Data Storytelling Studio

In Spring 2015, I cross-registered at the Civic Media Lab, MIT CMS.831 Data Storytelling Studio. 

We are swimming in data - "Big" and small, global and personal. And we are also facing complicated problems like Climate Change and inequality whose stories can only be told with data.
The need for public understanding of data-driven issues is higher than ever before. But raw data doesn't make a good story and that's where you come in.

This class focused on how to tell stories with data to create social change. We will learn through case studies, examples and hands-on.
For the final project, we created a piece that tells a data-driven story.

The course is open to all technical levels and backgrounds.  Students had a strong background in one or more of the following areas: journalism, software development, data analysis, documentary, visual and performing arts.

The course had a special focus of Food Security.

Here is one of the weekly homework: Data Sculpture.