SM1701

Topic: Jason Rohrer 's Playable work Student Name : CHIN Ho Student No : 59380938 (image sources : https://onehouronelife.com/ ) Jason Rohrer is an American game developer who makes special games to make people think about life, love , family, and death. His work includes Cordial Minuet , Diamond Trust of London, and Sleep Is Death 's video games. From this week, my research blog I focus on one of his playable works. "One Hour One Life" is created by Jason Rohrer, which is a multiplayer survival game that feels like living a whole human life and be part of human history in just one hour. This game is about we will born as a baby to become a player, and in the game, 1 minute equals to 1 year of life of the game character it will grow up in 60 minutes. In this game, we only have one hour to control the character to learn , work, and teach other non-playable characters. Therefore, you can survive in your village in this game. Moreover, this playable work"One Hour O...

Topic: The practice of sound artist Yasunao Tone Student Name : CHIN Ho Student No : 59380938 (image sources:  https://www.amazon.com/Solo-Wounded-CD-Yasunao-Tone/dp/B000003YU8 ) Yasunao Tone was a Japanese artist and musician who made strange, exciting sounds. He loved mixing art, music, and ideas in new ways. His works include Clapping Piece (1963) and Solo for Wounded CD (1997). From this week, my research blog I focus on one of the tracks from an album, called "Solo For Wounded Part I" is a 14-minute track on the Solo For Wounded CD. This track is using “wounded” CDs and stick tape on CDs to make them skip and glitch on purpose. The skip created wild and broken sounds. In Part I of the Solo For Wounded album, the track will start quietly, with little zaps and clicks, like a CD player struggling to work. Then it gets louder and messier, with skips piling up into strange, rhythmic patterns. At the end of the track, the noise explodes into a storm of glitches, then fades awa...

Topic: Wafaa Bilal’s Domestic Tension Student Name : CHIN Ho Student No : 59380938 (image sources:  https://anthology.rhizome.org/domestic-tension ) Wafaa Bilal is an Iraqi-American artist who uses art to address political, cultural, and technological issues. His works include Virtual Jihadi and The 3rd I. From this week, the research blog post, I focused on one of his artworks, "Domestic Tension," which is a networked performance. Wafaa Bilal will broadcast live to the internet 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and invite viewers to watch and chat with him at all hours. The viewers will also be given the option to choose to shoot Wafaa Bilal with a robotically controlled paintball gun. Moreover, this artwork highlights the violence and racism in US culture after the September 11 attacks to raise awareness about the Iraqis who have been affected. Also, he created this artwork to tell us his experiences under Saddam Hussein ‘s regime, the Gulf War attacks, and the Sunni-Shia brut...

Topic: The art of Stephanie Dinkin Student Name : CHIN Ho Student No : 59380938 (image sources:  https://www.stephaniedinkins.com/ntoo.html ) (image sources: https://www.stephaniedinkins.com/conversations-with-bina48.html ) Stephanie Dinkins is an artist from U.S.A who blends art, technology and community work. She creates art to explore how artificial intelligence to connects with different race and gender. Moreover, using sculpture, coding, installations and community projects to build a platform for dialogue about artificial intelligence. Also, she use storytelling and speculative design to challenge AI and encourages everyone to help shape its future. For my research blog this week, I focused on two of her artworks, "Not The Only One" and "Conversations with Bina48". "Not The Only One " is from the perspective of an artificial intelligence to create a multigenerational story of a black American family. The artificial intelligence was trained to reflect...

Topic : The art of Jeffrey Shaw Student Name: CHIN Ho Student No: 59380938 (image sources : https://www.jeffreyshawcompendium.com/portfolio/corpocinema/ ) Jeffrey Shaw is an Australian artist who makes interactive art using technology, film, and physical experiences. His works, including Legible City and Viewpoint, allow audiences to control the story and change how we experience cinema. From this week, my research blog I focus on one of his expanded cinema artworks, "Corpocinema". In this artworks, it was made with a large air-inflated PVC dome 700cm in diameter and 400 cm high. The structure enclosed a space into which moving film and slides could be projected from without. This creates a temporary condition for the materialization of the project imagery within the dome.  In this work, an experience of  "expanded cinema", it breaks away from traditional movie-watching on a flat screen; it uses a large, inflatable dome where moving images and slides are projected...

Topic : The painting of Pieter Schoolwerth Student Name: CHIN Ho Student No: 59380938 (image source: https://www.petzel.com/exhibitions/pieter-schoolwerth/selected-works#2 ) Pieter Schoolwerth is a U.S. artist who experiments with how abstraction changes the way human forms are shown in paintings, exploring the impact of simplified shapes and styles. For my research blog this week, I focused on one of his paintings, " Shifted Sims #9 (Eco Lifestyle) ". In this painting, Pieter Schoolwerth references the popular life-simulation computer game The Sims 4, specifically a scene from the Eco Lifestyle downloadable content pack. The painting shows a modern, Eco-friendly home with furniture and plants. Three Sims avatars are shown engaging in activities within the scene. Moreover, we can see in the lower right corner that there is a baby Yoda from this painting. This painting show how to reflect the quality of a digital image, it mixes the clean and look of a video game with roughnes...