Recitation: Group Project and Performance

The final show

Thanks to my best group–Cytus! And thanks to my best group mates: Ha Vi, Isabel, Frisk, James.


Process

I Decide the idea

We had the first meeting on Sep. 15th. During the meeting, we exchanged our ideas about the project and decided on the most achievable one–the idea of Mind-link Internet, which was my idea and I got some enlighten from a game I used to play.

  Our ideas

What we want to show through this project was the idea of virtual interaction. While reading the story <The Winter Market>, I was thinking continuously that, if people could leave their consciousness in a database and show the consciousness to other people, then could it be called a kind of living immortally. Designing an internet that totally consists of people’s consciousness is also a way for people to interact with each other more freely, that people can create everything they need through their conscious. They can build up houses in the virtual world only use their minds, and invite other people around the world to visit. They can even change their genders and appearance, and all the efforts they need to pay is just to think about it.

To summary, I think it was a good idea, for it could not only show the interaction between humans and technology (for humans can create things with consciousness while the technology will catch people’s consciousness), but it can also allow people to create their own interaction between themselves.

II Write the script

Although the idea was awesome, we met some difficulties with how to show it while we were writing the show’s script. It was easy to explain our ideas of creating relationships for people through this net platform, for which we created the conversation both online and in reality. We also designed one character who changed the gender online. However, it was hard to explain the unlimited possibilities that the virtual world could bring and how people could interact with the technology. At last, we designed the AI character which was a part of the interaction.

(Here are the ideas I create for the script)

III Make the stage props and rehearsals

 

 

Everyone participated in the working parts. We cooperated efficiently and also very happy~

IV Final Show (Recording is on the top)


 Introspection

After listening to the advice from the audience, I think our group project has some points which can be improved. I realized that we should focus more on the special points we had thought about. For example, the unlimited possibilities that consciousness can bring, in what ways people could use their consciousness in the virtual world, and the most important thing–how could we tell the difference between the mind-link internet and social media with VR technology. 

In my opinion, there are huge differences between them. For VR technology, we need to use some tools to control, and the present technology is just trying to show the screen view for people who are using it. But the internet we designed is trying to upload our consciousness fully into the platform, and people can totally choose what they want to be and what they want to see through their minds. The virtual world is just like creating a space for people to dream and create, and different from dreams, the virtual world will save what people have created one hundred percent. The conscious nowadays is still a kind of conceptual thing, and what we want to do is to put consciousness into figuration. However, we hadn’t shown this thinking through our performance, and this is the most specific point I think we should improve about if we could have more time to prepare.

Also, this project is designed related to the story <The Winter Market>, whose worldview made the technology of recognizing human consciousness into a possible thing. In this background, we made up the ideas, and modern technology cannot reach this goal. So it is also another point that separated our project from the real world.

All in all, I think we made a good beginning, but we didn’t dig our ideas during the performing step, which is a pity for we hadn’t show our best part of this idea. I will improve the way we do research next time, that is to make clear what we want to express before the next step’s creating. Wish we can finish it better the next time!

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