Open Dump

by Chau Ching Skye

After we finish a basketball match, nothing will be left. Therefore through this art piece, I aim to mark down the life of basketball and give it a meaning. Nevertheless, I hope to remind people to do exercise.

To finish this piece, firstly, we will have to invite some basketball players to play matches with balls colored in paint. While they play the matches, the print of the ball will stick on the floor, and become marks. After the match, we invite those players to take the ball along, and keep playing with it along the road, to make more marks. Finally the road and the court will be surrounded with marks. And finally, we can generate all of the marks through a top view of the basketball court, removing the floor plan and link them all together and produce an art work full of lines–The Life of Basketball.
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by LEUNG Sik Wai

Teenagers love to gather with their friends and even at midnight, they will still make huge noise on the street. However, these acts are inconsiderate to residents living nearby and affect people get into sleep. So that this simulator is proposed to bring a message to the visitors that to be considerate, keep quiet at night and not to disturb others.

This device is an interactive device with an educational purpose, not only as an art project.

The device consists of four major parts. They are namely the voice collecting part, image collecting part, part that analyzing voice and the display part.

The overall procedure of the device would be like this. People would like to scream and make some other noise onto the voice collecting device, which the mic connected to the computer. At the same time, they can see their face on the projected image. Next, voice collected will be transmitted to computer and do analyzing work. The system should be able to distinguish noise and the voice of ‘shu’ which means to ask others to keep quiet. Finally, the projector will project a computer graphic. The computer graphic will be a picture of many residents, and they are doing their own things inside their flat.
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by LEE Veronica Wing Tung

Agree not agree

In my university Creative Media Centre, there are 4 lifts at the lobby. Each lift will let the people with different status to go inside, eg. Students, staffs and visitors, etc. Each lift will post a big touch panel. The touch panel is white in colour will have different comments on the University that are collected from some students. People can go into the lift and look about the comments of CMC. If they have another opinion but the opinion didn’t mentioned on the wall, they could use their fingers to write their opinion on the “paper”. If they agree the statement on the paper, they can imprint their hand with red “pigment” by selecting the colour on the statements. If they disagree that statement, just imprint the hand with black “pigment” on it to show their position. The comments and hand imprint will increase gradually on the “paper”. There will be a lot of appeal. At the end, we can see two colors on the statements. It can show the peoples’ opinion. It’s because everyone can see the opinion and requests of the students and staff.

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by CHUN Tsz Fung

The Earth is deeply polluted in these years. The nature can no more be lived by us or the national creatures. Let’s look at our sea, the marine world. There is no more blue and transparent water. What is nowadays water included? Most are oil, plastic, garbage and the other pollutant. Most of the areas are in brown and dark. Marine life is becoming less and less. Even it is not satisfy for human to dive, to discover the huge marine world.

As a result, I decide to create this artwork to help people discover the nature, marine world.

This is a virtual reality device, with 3 big screens and 3 camera to project and scan your body. Here is an example to briefly show how the computer process the artwork:

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by LI Chun Hei

Do you like the colorful world? Have you played the bubbles in your childhood? It is my memory of my childhood. I would like to bring the happiness to all audiences.

I would like to refer the color gun in 2007, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBVsIf1XxZ8, Audiences can blow the membrane on the stick, just like playing the bubble. Then different color of bubbles will form on the screen. The bubbles on the screen can bump with other, creating different sound. Audiences also can have interaction with bubbles. They can crack the bubble the produce “pop” sound. Therefore the audience can play this installation like playing the musical instruments with a colorful picture on the screen.

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by CHEUNG So Sum

Nowadays, people become less zealous towards others because of the advancement of science and technology. People mainly use smartphones or other IT products to contact with friends and strangers. The basic communication between people becomes lesser and lesser. Lesser facial expression and emotional feelings can be expressed through face-to-face. However, let’s think about our childhoods, when we were still a kid, we could chat and play with other kids happily even we didn’t know each other! Why people become more bashful to communicate with other people when they grow up? They should know that the easiest way to know others is by face-to-face communication, but not technology. The well development of IT products seems to be a big obstructor for people to understand this fact.
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by WONG Wing Tung

TITLE: NATURELAND

INTRODUCTION:
Nowadays, our earth becomes weakness and danger. People keep on to do the harmful economic activities to damage our environment and no doubt it exacerbates the global warming and damage our earth.

MEANING:
This artwork is going to let people understand why is global warming so harmful for the environment and also teach the children the importance of protecting our earth.

DESCRIPION:
This artwork mixed by the installation and new media. The player who wearing the specially made glasses and holding the IPAD will be placed in “NATURELAND” than start his adventure.
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Métamorphoser, moderniser, réinventer le théâtre afin d’en proposer un objet d’interactions actives et collectives entre les multiples protagonistes qui animent et font vivre la pièce: comédiens, scénaristes, metteurs en scène et spectateurs.

“Le théâtre est une cérémonie dont l’objet est de revitaliser la communauté.” Julian Beck

Imaginez un lieu propice à une construction collaborative qui fera de la scène le temple de la matérialisation des idées collectives et invitons le public à composer en temps réel l’oeuvre sans cesse renouvelée qu’il aura décidé de vivre et de contempler.

Cette idée n’est pas nouvelle, Augusto Boal ayant mis au point le théâtre-forum dans les années 1960 mais moins qu’une transposition de ce type de spectacle aux salles de nos villes, il s’agirait ici de le moderniser avec un dispositif tel que Twitter.

Capable de créer une dynamique positive et virale, il aurait pour objectif de placer l’acteur sous la tutelle de l’imagination de son audience.
Sa simplicité, son accessibilité et sa discrétion en ferait un outil idéal de conversation entre les différents “acteurs” de la salle.

Dans un premier acte tout à fait classique, le public assisterait à la mise en place d’une trame ou d’une intrigue. Un thème prédéterminé qui poserait des bases ouvertes à de multiples chemins.

Puis, à partir d’un deuxième acte, il reviendrait au metteur en scène d’inviter le public à réagir, Tweeter son ressentit et les issues qu’il aimerait voir se concrétiser sur scène.
Faisant la part belle à l’intelligence collective, ce réalisateur deviendrait alors un pont entre deux entités collaboratives qu’il devra animer et concilier: l’une active, le spectateur, qui dicte ses désirs et invente sa pièce, l’autre semi passive: les comédiens dirigés indirectement par leurs publics.

Nous assistons alors à un jeux de rôle improvisé où la place de chacun n’est jamais acquise d’avance, incertaine, le spectateur devenant d’une certaine façon membre de la troupe.
Délaissant son strapontin le temps d’une idée, il construit et apporte matière à la narration tandis que les coulisses deviennent témoin-improvisateur de la fantaisie créatrice de l’assistance.

Notre projet s’agit de deux jeux collectifs dédiés principalement aux groupes de travail. Ces jeux exploitent non seulement l’imagination des joueurs, ils créent aussi un environnement divertissant qui les relaxe tout en favorisant le travail collaboratif.

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Le musée virtuel existe déjà depuis quelques années. Il peut nous donner envie d’aller voir le musée physique. Nous ne pouvons pas nous déplacer dans tous les musées du monde même si nous le voulions. Il en existe des milliers. Et en plus, des musées virtuels sans institution muséale physique se développent et vivent uniquement via le réseau Internet.

C’est pourquoi j’ai imaginé un projet qui permet d’avoir ses musées préférés en poche, un mélange de tablette tactile et de livre. Imaginer un livre avec sur chaque page un musée dans lequel on peut se « promener » de manière tactile, avoir des ressources documentaires, les activités proposées par les musées… Et le tout dans un livre de poche. Vous pourrez le connecter en wifi et télécharger les nouvelles données du musée (actualités, activités…). Avec cet e-book vous pourrez également prendre des photos d’œuvres du musée, les modifier, pour les partager via votre galerie personnelle. Plusieurs options vous permettrez de visiter le musée comme vous le souhaitez, par exemple, en version bande dessinée, en version manga, en noir & blanc…

Cet e-book muséal vous donnera toutes les informations pour mieux connaître les musées et vous permettra de préparer au mieux votre visite, de noter vos commentaires, d’interagir avec le musée… Il sera un merveilleux cadeau pour tous les amateurs d’art et de culture !