Emily’s Documentation Blog

Overall Concept Wandering on the intricate streets of Beijing, I made an unintentional turn and found myself in a narrow and extended hutong. I thereby made up my mind to seek for my childhood memory. Yet things have been shifting at a rapid speed, and now that the tradition and contemporary are co-existing in this … Continue reading Diptych Concept

1.What does Ritchin mean with the “fluidity of the digital”? Give an example of digital imaging/digital photography that exemplifies this. According to Ritchin, ‘fluidity of the digital’ means that as we are entering the post-photographic age, the architecture of images is shifted from chemically processed grain to discrete electronic pixels in order to make it … Continue reading In Our Own Image Reading Response

Name: Emily Cui Title of Music: City Of Stars Artist Name: Justin Hurwitz Concept and Design This song is a soundtrack from the movie ‘LaLaLand’, which tells the story of two youngsters who were pursuing their dreams in Los Angeles. They fell in love with each other but parted eventually. The song ‘City Of Stars’ … Continue reading Sound Visualization Documentation

Pioneer Plaque Shelia and I chose to introduce the magnifying glass to heptapods. Considering the huge difference in body structure and linguistic feature, we drew two images in comparison in order to demonstrate the principle of magnifying glass to aliens more intuitively. To start off, since heptapods have little knowledge of any objects used by … Continue reading Pioneer Plaque

Q1: How do the aliens’ language and communication styles in the story differ from human language? The oral speech of aliens was considered as fluttering sounds with patterns that the human vocal tract could not reproduce.  Additionally, in the primary stages of research and observation, the aliens’ pictographs were defined as the term “logogram”, and … Continue reading Story Of Your Life Reading Response