Month: September 2021

The “fluidity of the digital” means that photographers can feel free to modify the photograph and other digital media to reach their own needs. Photographers are no longer just the recorder of real life, they can edit and manipulate the photographs to make them present in various ways.

One typical example would be photo-editing applications. In order to achieve a certain goal, many people use such app to beautify pictures to the largest extent, ignoring the fact that they have changed the essence of the photo. The one on the right is the type that we usually see as a promotional photo, but its origination is the left picture. The beauty of the sea is fluid. By using beauty apps, those not attractive pictures become attractive, which can mislead and deceive people then gain benefit from this.

When comparing the capacity of capturing reality, I think virtual reality and video are better than photography and photography is better than book and text.
Compared with text and book, photography can better capture the reality for it can automatically present a vivid image for readers and can omit the procedure that readers try to imagine the image in their mind. Also, images taken by photo are absolutely more realistic than images in mind.
The reason video is better than photography is that video is composed of countless images, which can present people with images from different angles. Virtual reality is much better than video, for it can create three-dimension images while a video can only create two-dimension images, which can give the reader an immersive feeling.
However, the comparison has an exception. In terms of recording time, photography is the worst compared with the other four media. The other four can all capture the moment in a time period while photography can only record a time point.

Link to the song:

https://youtu.be/ThvSTegU1mQ

Concepts
I knew this song about half a week ago before choosing the song. The moment I listen to the song, I felt a lot of freedom and added to my favorite song. The part I played in class has a strong rhythm that I want to dance with. The whole song is very retro, which can remind me of 1980s old cinema and KTV. So, I decided to compose some retro and classic elements in my sound visualization project. My initial thought was to put a huge disc in the middle and put other retro items surrounded, but this was overturned in the mid critique, for a huge disc is too awkward and can’t emphasize other parts. So, I decided to change the disc to a small part of my project. Disc, in my concept, means classic and old. Because now seldom people use the disc to play songs, it can give me a feeling of the passing era. This song also creates a feeling of freedom, so I choose the word “party” to represent this freedom. I tried to create an atmosphere that everyone sings and jumps freely at a party, and not be restricted to anyone and anywhere. I also tried to link the party and disc together, which means that this party deserves to be memorized and be put into the disc.
I used many Gestalt theories in my project.
Proximity
The many “Y” in the middle part forms a projector lamp, which can highlight the letter “R”, which represents a dancing person.
Continuation
There is many “A” running through the whole graph, which can link party and disc together and make it as a whole.
Symmetry
The disc uses symmetry. By rearranging the word “disco”, I tried to let “D” in the upper part and bilateral symmetry, which can give me a feeling of steady-state and can let lower part looks more symmetry, for lower parts are not absolute symmetry in letters.
Process
I don’t know many functions of AI at first, so my first draft doesn’t contain too much technique. I just created a huge disc and put some shapes on it, for I wasn’t figuring out which elements I’m going to use yet.
After the mid critique, I began to find some symbols in the last century’s film poster, trying to find some typical figures. I looked through countless posters, can’t find anything symbolistic but found a feeling of unlimited. Unlike today’s posters, the old ones are bolder to use more patterns to behave. This is the reason I chose the word “party” and made it become a real party.
Then I attended the workshop held by LA and fellows. It is really helpful! That night, I began to work on the project. I moved the disc to the corner, used “T” to create a light, used “R” to create dancing people, and used “Y” to create the outline of light. Then I used “A” to link them together and added an abstract “P” to make the project more artistic. I intentionally left some part of “A” out of the graph to give people a feel of an extension.
Conclusion
In the final critique, the instructor pointed out that when looking at my project, everyone will pay emphasize on the disc and then move through the line “A” and finally reach the central part. This is somewhat unbalanced and I need to let my piece be more integral. But I regarded my symbols as a success while listening to the music over and over again.

Introduction

This is a picture of the natural world. The natural world is something that was not created by us humans but by a force that we don’t know. In other words, they were born in this way. This is a system that introduces the principle of our world like who eats who and who is the most powerful in their world.

The bottom part is grass, they can turn carbon dioxide into oxygen to make humans survive. But they have no arms and legs, so when animals want to eat them, they can eat them. They are called producers, who can produce oxygen for humans and animals to survive.

Other animals are called consumers, which means that they consume energy but do not create energy. In the middle of the plaque is a worm, which eats plants and smaller insects to live. It is very small and weak so when bird wants to catch them and eat them, they can’t resist but only be eaten. This bird relies on eating worms for living. In the left bottom part, there is an animal called a rabbit. It survives by eating grass. On the left top side is a creature called an eagle, it survives by eating small animals like rabbits and birds. However, it doesn’t eat what rabbits and birds eat. On the right part of the plaque are two snails, which survive by eating grass. But it could also be eaten by birds and lizards as the plaque shows.

It may sound complex that one needs to eat many other creatures to live and can also be eaten by many other creatures. However, only in this way can they maintain their life, for their moving consumes energy, which can only be gained through eating.

Maybe you don’t understand what energy is. Energy represents movement and operations; it is the foundation of every living creature’s action. It originates from the sun – who can give lights to grass, and grass can change this light to energy in their body and give energy to other upper creatures by being eaten. The sequence of eating and being eaten forms a chain, which is called the food chain. From the plaque, we can see that there are many food chains. One is grass to rabbit to the eagle. We both maintain our living by eating things, and if you cannot be eaten by other creatures, you are at the top of the food chain. It is like the behavior that we humans eat apples and bread and you eat giant nut or gourd and a gelatinous ellipsoid. However, the component of the food chain must be living creatures, so if you change your food to some living creatures, then it means in this chain, you are at the top. The sun itself is not composed of the food chain, but it is the foundation of the food chain.

Criticism

Animals in the plaque are not so representative, and if aliens don’t have similar experiences, they may don’t understand the basic understanding of plants and animals. they may not form a system consciousness although this is not a causal relationship.

How do aliens in the story language and communication style different from the human language (oral, pictographic, phonetic, etc.)?

Unlike humans whose language and communication style are exactly the same, aliens’ language style and communication style are different. Human language is linear, composed of words and phrases, and always forms by the logic of cause and effects. But alien language writes like a circle. The change of their strokes represents different meanings. So when we compare the writing of human language and alien language, human language needs to be read line by line while alien language can be regarded as a drawing and be understood immediately. 

Their ways to produce sound also vary. Humans produce sound by vocal cords while aliens produce sound by vibration. 

For phonetics is closely related to writing, these two languages then vary much more. Humans can speak in the way they write but aliens can’t. For words must be expressed one by one and their writing doesn’t have any sequence, so they try to find the biggest freedom of not using the sequence. Humans’ writing and speaking are complementary while aliens’ speaking can only be a weak substitute for written language.

How does the physical structure of our body inform the way we communicate? How about the aliens?

For human communication organs are formed in a two-dimension way, it is hard for us to form a complete logic before speaking, so we usually speak in a linear way and follow cause and effect. However, aliens have seven limbs and seven eyes, which are formed in a three-dimension way. This makes sure that for them, every direction is front. This enables them to finish thinking about what they are going to say before communication, so their expression is no longer limited to structure and words, and can write whatever they want to express.

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