Xiangyi-Interactive Media Arts
Interaction Lab
What are the precise rules of each of the obstructions? 12frames, answers to the questions, Cuba, no set; a miserable place, don’t show it; Jorgen Leth is the man; the meal; complete freedom or back to bombay; cartoon; Lars Von Trier will make the last obstruction; Honestly, I kind of enjoy watching Jorgen … Continue reading Five Obstuctions
I want to focus on a particular recollection from when I was just starting to learn calligraphy. As a six-year-old, I was full with interest because it was something new to me. Closing my eyes, I can hear the the gentle sound of the brush rubbing across the rough surface of the paper, as well … Continue reading Pick Memory
Xiangyi Zhong Diptych Project Concept The overall concept of my diptych is to present a communication between the artificial and nature. Generally speaking, there are one visual similarity and three pair of contrast in the diptych design, centering the mentioned topic. The two pictures resemble in the layout, or the composition, with an eye-shape figure … Continue reading Diptych Documentation
What does Ritchin mean with the “fluidity of the digital”? Give an example of digital imaging/digital photography that exemplifies this. Fluidity of digital here shows the modifiability of photographs today, which indicates that people can add, remove or do other changes to some part of the photo whenever they would like to. No matter color, … Continue reading In Our Own Image
My concept of the Diptych project is the co-existence of nature and human industry. The general idea is to capture or build the connection and conflict between the two. I plan to go to Gongqing Forest Park, which I think can exemplify the human-nature relationship today. My concept is to find something less “nature” on … Continue reading Diptych Concept Assignment
Name：Xiangyi Zhong Title of Music: Prologue ( Tango Apasionada) Artist Name: Astor Piazzolla Concept and Design My reason for choosing this piece of music was really simple-I just watched a movie, the music in which touched me deeply. Even several days later, the story and the scenes in the movie still kept emerging in my … Continue reading Sound Visualization
My Partner Melanie and I decide to choose traffic signal lights system to introduce to heptapods. Traffic signal lights 🚥, are tools used in human civilization to direct traffic operation and ensure traffic security and order. Traffic lights are usually set at intersections, where two roads cross, with the same red, yellow, and green🔴 🟡 … Continue reading Pioneer Plaque Assignment
How are the aliens’ language and communication style in the story different from human language (oral, pictographic, phonetic, etc.)? The hetapods make sounds according to different principles of vocalization, so people cannot fully imitate their oral language. The language system:The hetapods own two systems of language-Hetapod A referring to the spoken language, and Hetapod … Continue reading Reading-Story of Your Life
UP Xiangyi Zhong & Yanran Deng, Gottfried Haider 2022/12/16 CONCEPTION AND DESIGN For our final project, we want to build a game like Flappy Bird, but in a more interactive way and different meaning. We want users use the bike pump to control the height of the balloon house, while avoiding obstacles on the way … Continue reading Final Project
Taking this recitation as a chance to test our sensor for final project, I chose the air pump to be connected with arduino to send values to processing. I tried to have the pump control the speed of the playing video, which is, mapping the values received from the air sensor into the playing speed … Continue reading Recitation 10: Media Controller