1. the first project’s name is “Lost Memory”. the topic of the program is Alzheimer’s Disease. it focused on the patient’s experience and make people understand what it was like to lose memory and make clear a point that only a complete memory can bring love and hope. the form of the project is a maze. the maze is made by 3D printing and is covered with a black cloth. the audience will use the computer to control a laser light to lighten up a part of the maze. they need to memorize the way they have gone through to know where they are going. the maze will be arranged as the home of an Alzheimer’s patient. and inside the maze, there are four letters L, O, V, E. if the laser light found one of the four letters, a piece of music will be played. only when four letters are all found and the audience will find the four pieces of music can be arranged into a whole musical piece. only then, the whole maze will lighten up. this project is meant to make the audience realize the meaning of losing memory. but in this project, we also wanted to show that everyone has a light, even if you have lost your memory and need to work hard to memorize the layout of your home. once you have found love or experienced love, then your world will lighten up.
2. the second project is called “behind the mask”. this project focuses on a special kind of depression. the patient with this depression will not look depressed. instead, they look very happy. but inside they are very sad. the whole program is presented by a man with a smiling mask on him and the lights behind him will shine happily with happy music. but if someone ripped off his mask, then you can see his face with tears and wounds. all lights will go off and start to play sad music. you will wear a device and if you patted his head the light will light up a bit, if you hold his hand then the light will light up a bit. only when the lights all light up, you will find it will form thank you on the screen. this project is meant to raise awareness of the so-called smiling depression. people need others to find out that they are not happy actually and need warmth. if you can give them some comfort, they will be very happy.
3. the third project is about knowing a person. we may be able to see and hear a mother person who is very far away from us using modern technology, but we can’t see them emotionally. this project is about transforming the heartbeat of someone into music and then transforming music into a drawing. heartbeat at different frequencies will correspond to different music and we will use different shapes to draw that music out. this project is meant to let people not only see and hear the other person but also see and hear their heartbeat. so that the distance between people and people is closer.
4. here are the sketches for my projects.
