The elephantnose fish has poor eyesight and uses a weak electric field, which it generates by muscular contractions, to find food, to navigate in dark or turbid waters, and to find a mate. (description by Wikipedia) The human use a linguistic for communication but this fish use a electric sounds. Even if human never hear that sound directly, they are commnunicating each other. We want to express the each fish's thought. It is not nessasorry what they are talking. Most important thing is that they control the machine in real time.
The movement of each visual is cotrolled by the Perers' Elephantnose.
Location : The Corner Gallery in Samchung dong Date : 2010.05.10 ~2010.05.30
Background The woman covered their face and the upper half of the body using her clothes(called “쓰개치마” [sseogae skirt]) at the Joseon Dynasty. This culture is based on Confucian ideas. The woman must hide their body to the man when they go out. This fact shows that hiding their face means keeping their privacy. So what should we hide in the 21st century for keeping our privacy.
Goals During life we use lots of electronic machines, especially TV, computer and mobile phone. They have a similar function that control the device. Because this devices has a key board that is number and direction. I focus one that. The number key buttons are easy to match the direction key. For example, 2 is up, 4 is left, 6 is right, and 8 is down. Without the hesitation, we can use there functions. Especially, mobile phones are a necessity in the modern life without distinction of age or sex. And the mobile phone also represents myself. Almost everyone has a mobile phone. If I use a mobile phone that will be more easy to communicate with others. However, we have to be careful. Using the mobile phone is always recording, for example time of call, contents of call and where you are now. When a person calls somebody, even if you don’t want to show who you are, the number of your mobile phone is exposed. That situation also means that your privacy is exposed. For this kind of problem made a Caller ID Spoofing (calling line identification restriction : *23 + phone number) service. But this service is uncomfortable and a receiver gets an unpleasant feeling. That’s why people don’t use this service any more expect on special cases. Like this situation, I want to express that when you push the number buttons on your mobile to make a telephone call you not only connect with another person that other person now knows your number. Method (Scenario) In the dark of the night, there is a woman using a mobile phone. The more she uses this a mobile phone, the video is come bigger and bigger through the wall. The video is about the person who answers the phone. This performance shows the your privacy is exposed in the public place.
Background Humans have five senses sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch; a classification attributed to Aristotle. When people have an experience, we can get a feeling through those 5 senses. It may be happy, angry, upset ,sad and so on. That kind of feeling is different from person to person even same situation. The feeling is so complex and delicate. Sometimes It is hard to explain just one word. Idea sketch Goals I want to share that kind of personal feeling. Without a word we can not understand each other. For this project, I will tell my personal fact on what makes me feel better. Usually the makeup brings the psychological expectation effect. In my case, I am affected by nail color. I always change my nail color almost every week. It can control my clothes, makeup and feeling. I want to clarify the relation between nail color and emotion. Especially I want to talk with the different sex. The male and female have different thinking processes. Because the male develops the sense of sight and the female a more sensitive touch. So they use the opposite method for their communication. I use the sight factor for woman and touch factor for man.
Method The system is vibrating black box that controlled by nail color. When woman put their nails in the hole, the sensor recognizes the color and makes a different vibration to man’s body directly. It is not necessary to talk. The color is so various. So I chose two negative colors. That is red and blue. In the symbolism, the blue color often uses for trust and calm. However, the red color uses for desire and passion.
1. Circuit bending Circuit bending is the creative, short-circuiting of electronic devices such as low voltage, battery-powered guitar effects, children's toys and small digital synthesizers to create new musical or visual instruments and sound generators. (wikipedia)
First Concept : First sound project is a Toy. The original sound also very interesting. I connected with a variable resistance and Ableton live software. It can change the sound lively.
Second Concept : I use a melody kit for making experimental sound. The reason why I choose the ipod is that is the most represent music play device. I want to show that can be a different point of view. This sound can feel unconfortable to some people. But this is also kind of music.
pPLAY is a project group working on Public, Physical & Playful interaction. Their goal is to practice Physical computing and Audio-Visual data visualization as a tool for communicating between people & digital media.
Objective Sparks appear. Now the people have introduced themselves and shared personal information. This is the “aha!” moment where they figure out that they are not total strangers to each other anymore.
Goals The interactive ball, “PI (Playful Interaction),” makes the connection between people strengths and expand the meaning of the space by giving a playful interaction between human & digital media. PI can communicate with people with colorful lights and sounds that make the ball seems to be alive. While the lights of PI represents the visual transformation of people’s kinetic energy, the sound, musical tone of people form different sex, age and nationality, generated by the interaction symbolizes the harmony among people. It tells us that the digital media should be an intermediation, giving people shared experiences.
LiftAsia 2008 in Jeju from darong on Vimeo. web site http://www.liftconference.com/kr/ http://www.nabi.or.kr/bondingcompany http://pplay.tistory.com/
Members: Eunyoung Kah, Darong Kim, Wonyoung So, Kisoon Eom, Jiyoun An, Jieun Yoo, Heedea Cho
1. RISD.tv hosts an online laboratory for pedagogical experimentation and research into the possibilities of non-linear, networked video production.*
2. The site utilizes Lepton, a set of video collaboration tools developed by the Lepton Group [composed of Dennis Hlynksy, Chuan Khoo and Daniel Peltz], that provide the means to create and visualize non-linear works in which the interconnections of submissions are obvious and emphasized.
3. The visualization and tracking of how ideas are associated across and within cultures of media makers is the focus of our initial explorations.**
4. RISD.tv provides a framework for dialogue through web-based video production. Using video as our language establishes a means for cross-cultural, multinational dialogue that does not depend on common spoken or written languages.
Our most recent Call and Response projects include Call and Response IV [a video dialog between students at the Rhode Island School of Design in the U.S., Hongik University and Ewha Womans University in Korea and the Ecole des Beaux-arts de Valenciennes in France based around themes determined by each of the participant groups] and Blind Calls [between students from Kenya, Finland, Jordan, Argentina, Korea and the U.S. participating in an experimental workshop as part of the Fusion Arts Exchange]. Use the link on the right to access the interface.
Communication at Kookmin
University (BA), Digital media design
at Hongik IDAS (international design
advanced study) (MA) / Works on interactive design, physical
computing and visual programming
Peters' Elephantnose
