We delivered our group presentation this Friday, which was really fun and satisfying to show what we’ve done to everyone. And I’ll talk about how we came up with the idea and how the whole process was like.
At the very beginning, we met last week to discuss about our idea. We end up entangling between two ideas. One is, a box that can freeze people and achieve the goal of immortal by freezing one’s body as well as his/her time. However, this sounded more like a medical machine instead of an interactive project, so we abandoned this idea and chose the other, which is a human body part exchange machine. By which the seller of the body part and the buyer can exchange the body part. This idea comes from the fiction “Winter Market”. The main character in this fiction is so unhealthy that he needs outer skeleton to support him. So our project further developed the idea — since the body is so fragile, why not replace it? People who sell their body parts usually do this for money, to be more frankly, for desire. However, replacing body parts do have a bad influence. In order to illustrate this, we design the mode that once a person has traded all his/her body part, his/her consciousness will be turned into a machine, which can continue to conduct the process of exchanging body parts.
After deciding on the setting of the story, we decided our work. Me, Cindy, Lindy and Poom are mainly in charge of the building part, and Angela was writing the script. But we did help each other a lot so everyone had contributed to every part of the process.
Below are some videos and pictures of our preparation.
we also rehearsed a several times before the final presentation. Every time we rehearsed, we always came up with some new ideas and do some more revising, which were very crucial to our final result.
And then came THE DAY!! We were really nervous before the performance, especially after watching fantastic works done by other groups.
One of the projects that impressed me the most is from group 2. They also were inspired by the “Winter Market”. Their idea was to invent outer skeleton that are able to do certain motions and with certain chips. This idea of outer skeleton is closely related to the fiction, and they’ve added their own creation, which is the chip part, to the project, which is very impressive, and add many new content to the whole performance. Also, they had fantastic cardboard design and really good acting. I think the idea that a chip can help people obtain motions, like dancing skills and so on, is really interesting and also reminds me of a scientific fiction called “Little Smart Roaming The Future”, in which the author also mentioned this idea. Also, the memory bread in Doraemon serves the same function. It has long been a really attracting idea to me and seeing them play the out was very impressive.
We were the last group to perform. That add a lot of pressure and nervousness to us. However these emotions all disappear when we really start to perform. Since we’ve rehearsed quite a few times, we all remember the lines and content clearly, so the process of acting was purely fun. And we conveyed our ideas to the audience successfully, which also meant a lot to us.
From our preparation and the comments professors and peers provided, this project really taught us a lot. It’s important to view technology as a neutral thing. It does provide us with convenience, but it also has many bad influence. For example, the one we show in our project that technology can magnify people’s desire. Technology provides both pathway to get the desire and the origin of desire. By technology, people can see more products online, which can stimulate their desire. In our project, it shows how technology acts as a pathway to get the desire. The machine enables people to give up their body parts for money to get what they want, a pair of shoes for example. However, when people are addicted to the money and sale more body parts, eventually they will lose themselves. It can echo to the real life too, for people sale their kidneys for money.
We really enjoyed the whole process and had a lot of fun. Looking forward to the next project!