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MA blog post week 1

According to my understanding after reading the materials, I believe media architecture is to use different composition change of light on the skin of architecture to create strong visual impact for viewers, turning static architectures into dynamic display to attract public attention,to communicate emotional, educational, cultural and/or political-economical information to the public and beautify the overall environment.

There are many technology related to light can be applied to media architecture,such as LED panels, OLED, LCD, interactive displays, MicroLED, video projections and lighting fixtures, communication skin and projection mapping. When it comes to design, we also need to consider the scale of the display, shape, pixel configuration, pixel shape and light quality.

Personally speaking, I decided to take this course and create media architecture for several reasons. First of all, I think producing a project that can be displayed on the building is pretty fancy. I like doing projects that are visible to appreciate and it gives me a sense of achievement. Secondly, I think I can gain more experience on related technology like Unity and learn some coding knowledge. Thirdly, compared to other course I’ve known, I think media architecture can give me more insight on producing a project for a company, or for an institution, which might be useful for my future career. Last but not least, I think by creating media architecture, we can show delightful and educational visual information to the public, communicate with them and evoke them to think, as well as adding kinetic momentum to the static building. It can make a city alive.



Notes of Story of Your Life

Brief summary:

This Story talks about the linguist Louise’s experience of working for government to communicating with the aliens, the heptapods, and trying to learn their language, mingled with flashbacks about her memories with  her daughter.

  1. How do aliens in the story language and communication style different from the human language (oral, pictographic, phonetic, etc.)?

I noticed in the story that the heptapods communicate and think very different from human. The heptapods vibrates the orifice at the top of their body to speak. Their oral language almost has no grammar; it is free of order. Their written language has no punctuation and it is pictographic, with each element connected to one another. Thus, the heptapods know how the whole sentence/paragraph looks like before they start. Unlike human language system where speaking and writing usually connected with each other, alien’s writing and speaking have no obvious correlations. While human speak to inform, heptapods speak to perform.

2. How does the physical structure of our body inform the way we communicate? How about the aliens?

Humans have straight, linear bodies, which may result in our linear chain of thinking: we tend to think in the way of causal relationships, and we write our thoughts line by line.

The heptapods’ bodies are radially symmetrical( four limbs attached to the body); they don’t have so-called “forward” direction. Their communicating style features the same way. There are no grammar or order of words about expressing thoughts. Their writing is centered with each semagram connected to one another.

After thoughts:

  • On page 15-16, it mentioned that aliens’ sentence is just semagrams combined and they joined together, which reminds me of our recent assignments and gestalt theory, which is to look at our picture as a whole and it is full of continuity).

 

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