The open-ended group

I was bought to digital art lecture today, actually i do not familiar with digital art , however, every piece of their work are impressive. They were showing a new representation of dancing in a digital way and thus create a  new interactive theatre for performers. The strong 3D space constructed by dots and  lines borden my horizon a lot and the works triggered me to know more about them.

The OpenEnded Group is a digital art collective which known for 3D visualizations, advances in dance technology (especially motion-capture), non-photorealistic rendering, and the use of artificial intelligence in art. Their work has been displayed by the Museum of the Modern Image.

Here, i found another talented work from their official website.

Upending(2010) takes the form of live 3D cinema and has the viewers’ eyes probing the projected imagery almost as if touching its light, feeling for the illusory surfaces of things as they cross the threshold from abstraction to likeness. A drama of disorientation and reorientation, Upending is enacted on both perceptual and thematic levels. They developed new methods to expand the possibilities of 3D imagery that includes frameless photography, 3D motion from video and 3D gesture drawing. Here is showing the 3D gesture drawing.

The type pictured above, of children is spinning themselves dizzy. This derives from gesture drawings captured from a tablet, projected into 3D, and transformed along the animation path of an articulated body.

Assignment 1 reinventing a work from my past

Whats your dream, career,hobbies? Those are the questions we were asked when we were young. Have you ever think about about the future? what people you will become in the future? This time, teacher asked us to look back. Thats a interesting assignment.

Dream house was created in my primary 4 , i was asked to imagine and draw a comfortable house i want to live in. At that moment, i wanted to live in house with a stair and lots of holes inside cause looks cool and give me more space to play hide and seek. Thats what i was thinking. A home full of love is what i concern most as well so the two giants in the drawing is representing my parents.

Now i became a college student, those thoughts are still remaining important to me and i took initiative to make a real model and colored it.  I added more children in this work as there are new members came to my family in those years. As It is talking about something invisible love about my dream house,the original shape of stair and holes was changed a lot.Finally,it looks a surreal house.

Different way of understanding music

All of us always listen the music with professional instruments and lots of computer effects but seldom find the raw materials or real life object around us to make a piece of nice sound.  Yet, Evelyn is the special one introducing me any sound can make as a piece of music as well potentially though the film - Touch the sound . 

In this film, how could you believe that Evelyn Glennie is nearly deaf. From her performance, the connections among sound, rhythm, time, and the body gave me a new experience and perception to music. Listening the music is not with our ears, but our mind and our body. 

She believes hearing is simply another form of touch. To be frank, i feel lucky for her that she born in western country but not in Hong Kong, it s because she found her mainstream audience and creates sound without commercial needs. Her passion for music became her life, she passionate for searching new instruments and percussive objects, working with other hearing-impaired musicians. During the film, I looked forward what her next beautiful work will be, what objects she will use immediately to make sound. All in all,  her movements and touches when she play sound moves me as well, her metal and thoughts injected me. 

Its simply not a film admiration, but a new experience of sound.