Interactive Installation Course Blog
Ideas, Experiments, and Reflections
For the past few days, I’ve been thinking about several aspects of The Forgetful Machine. My Thoughts Forgetting Effects To let viewers understand the machine is forgetful, I need to make my installation express that idea visually. Below are some of my thoughts: Visual Effects Image noise: image noise can be naturally associated with words … Continue reading The Forgetful Machine Update – October 20, 2023
Upon thinking about the two ideas in the previous post (Teacup and Forgetful Machine), I decided to combine them and integrate them with concepts/forms from readings. Planning Below is the plan for my midterm project. Project Name Forgetful Machine Project Description It has been humans who determine what to be remembered by machines with their … Continue reading Midterm Post 2
Yesterday, I read 4 short readings: ‘Past Future/Split Attention‘, ‘Crystals‘, ‘Analogue, Chance, and Memory’, and ‘The Sadness of the Machine’. They focus on different topics, but I think they talk about one thing in common: memory. Below are my thoughts after reading these materials. Past Future/Split Attention by Dan Graham This reading material is short … Continue reading Midterm Post 1 – Reading Response + Project Ideas
Progress For the past few days, I added more videos and more visual effects to them. My final video is a remixed MV allowing real-time control. You may download my patcher from here. Background videos Previously, I added the “Colorblind” MV to my patcher. Since it has a wide range of black area, I would … Continue reading Puzzle 4 – Post 2
Today, I finished Jitter Tutorial learning and started to work on videos with Jitter. When going through the ARGB tutorial, I immediately thought of one of my favorite songs called ” Color Blind”. Therefore, I downloaded the video and started manipulating its color. Progress To start with, I used the following objects: jit.qt.movie for reading … Continue reading Puzzle 4 – Post 1
After tons of experiments, I felt it was a bit difficult to tell a complete and interesting story in 90 seconds if I wanted a great listening experience, not to mention the random factors in the program. Therefore, I changed my plan to create a random jazz performance. Because jazz music can be highly improvisational, … Continue reading 90-SECOND AUDIO PERFORMANCE – POST 2
This week’s assignment is to make a 90-second audio performance, which is random in composition. Ideation It took me quite a while to decide on the theme because there seemed to be too many kinds of soundtracks to choose from (speech, music, sound effects, …). I first thought of mixing only speech audios, but later … Continue reading 90-second Audio Performance – Post 1
After the first poem writing, I went on to improve and augment the poem. My updated max patch can be downloaded from here. I added more lines after the first version of the poem to make it more interesting. I solved the initialization problem of the poem. The poem is now of finite length. Recording … Continue reading Create a Poem with Max – 2
Today, I wrote a poem with Max for the first time. I set the theme of the poem as “a visitor in a futuristic aquarium”, and got a bunch of words relevant to this theme. Then, I started with a simple poem line structure: “article + adjective + noun + verb + adverb”. For each … Continue reading Create a Poem with Max – 1
This week, I attended the first class of interactive installation. After class, I set up my WordPress website and GitHub page for this course.