I admire Demian Hirst.
I admire him, not because he is a successful artist, but because he did not lose his soul within dealing with the art business.
Gagosian, Ssatchi, etc..... These massive galleries and their support might be overwhelming enough for the artist to change his taste to the galleries's curator's taste, but Hirst didn't. He was within the center of the art market, but he did not lose his art.
Can art be for the sake of art? Can mere beauty be the reason of art? Can just awe towards beauty be the reason for everything? Need more? Yes. I need to know more. for why it makes it beautiful.
This is not relevant, but I admire Mark Rothko for his sublime paintings. I admire Bill Viola for everything. Also I like Toxi. Toxi is the reason why I dream of going to England.
Hm... What else?
Friday, November 27, 2009
Thursday, November 26, 2009
What am I doing
What am I doing...
Building, making an EEG is sooooooo difficult, and not cheap at all.
Buying a pre-maid device would be cheaper I guess, and better.
But still, too expensive.
I am not a producer to make such devices.
What should I do.
I want something fun.
This is $300, and it detects your facial expressions. and has 14 sensor within a headset. But it only give a pc version of software.
http://emotiv.com/
This is Cheaper. $200, gives a mac version software, but it has only 1 sensor, and more simpler.
neurosky.com
I prefer Emotiv, but it is not for mac.
But, it is not my intention to use these pre-made- correct sensor.
My idea is just an idea, to be fun, imaginative.
I guess I should not use these.
Building, making an EEG is sooooooo difficult, and not cheap at all.
Buying a pre-maid device would be cheaper I guess, and better.
But still, too expensive.
I am not a producer to make such devices.
What should I do.
I want something fun.
This is $300, and it detects your facial expressions. and has 14 sensor within a headset. But it only give a pc version of software.
http://emotiv.com/
This is Cheaper. $200, gives a mac version software, but it has only 1 sensor, and more simpler.
neurosky.com
I prefer Emotiv, but it is not for mac.
But, it is not my intention to use these pre-made- correct sensor.
My idea is just an idea, to be fun, imaginative.
I guess I should not use these.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Video in Public Spaces
Video is becoming an individual and democratic media within the development of Internet. Beforehand, there was only one person’s voice and opinion, dominating and effecting the public’s opinion, but now, it seems like people are trying to find a way to find a voice which can represent and be a collective of everyone’s voices.
For example, on Obama’s inauguration, the news media’s website not only reported what the newscasters have seen, but also gathered people’s responses and reported them as a collective information. CNN used software called “photosynth” to capture every perspective of the moment as a collective of the inauguration. Photosynth is a Microsoft technology that creates 3D spaces from anyone's 2D photos. You can click and zoom in, and explore around the photos taken from all different people and angles at the moment of the inauguration.
cnn.com/themoment
Within arts, interactivity gives people a lot of role as a creator. For example, within Aaron Koblin’s work, “ten thousand cents,” people draw each cell of what they are designated, and the art piece is a whole collective of people’s dedicated drawings.
http://www.tenthousandcents.com/
For example, on Obama’s inauguration, the news media’s website not only reported what the newscasters have seen, but also gathered people’s responses and reported them as a collective information. CNN used software called “photosynth” to capture every perspective of the moment as a collective of the inauguration. Photosynth is a Microsoft technology that creates 3D spaces from anyone's 2D photos. You can click and zoom in, and explore around the photos taken from all different people and angles at the moment of the inauguration.
cnn.com/themoment
Within arts, interactivity gives people a lot of role as a creator. For example, within Aaron Koblin’s work, “ten thousand cents,” people draw each cell of what they are designated, and the art piece is a whole collective of people’s dedicated drawings.
http://www.tenthousandcents.com/
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Random Inspirations
I still like to think of classical ideas of space and time.
Here are some information about the artist that I like, Anish Kapoor, and James Turrel. Their work opens up of a new space and time.
http://www.field.io/process/research/art/kapoor-turrell-perception-of-space
I also like to think of possibilities of new dimension.
http://www.field.io/process/research/science/calabi-yau
I just like to look at it. It makes me feel peaceful.
Here are some information about the artist that I like, Anish Kapoor, and James Turrel. Their work opens up of a new space and time.
http://www.field.io/process/research/art/kapoor-turrell-perception-of-space
I also like to think of possibilities of new dimension.
http://www.field.io/process/research/science/calabi-yau
I just like to look at it. It makes me feel peaceful.
What I like
Artists & Designers from UK seems very attractive and amazing to me.
http://postspectacular.com/
http://field.io/
http://www.memo.tv/
http://blog.soulwire.co.uk/
PPL say that Artists in UK are more concentrated in theoretical and conceptual work.
I think US is more into the user experience, fun, pop, positive dream towards the future, and pragmatic functionalism, which can very easily connect to commercial works.
I just want to concentrate on visuals.
PPL in UK concentrate more on their style of works, rather than the ppl who commissions them or asks them to make something for their ad.
Maybe that is why I get more attracted by the works in UK.
Blablabla. I don't know the truth, and this is all just my guessing from my short knowledge.
http://postspectacular.com/
http://field.io/
http://www.memo.tv/
http://blog.soulwire.co.uk/
PPL say that Artists in UK are more concentrated in theoretical and conceptual work.
I think US is more into the user experience, fun, pop, positive dream towards the future, and pragmatic functionalism, which can very easily connect to commercial works.
I just want to concentrate on visuals.
PPL in UK concentrate more on their style of works, rather than the ppl who commissions them or asks them to make something for their ad.
Maybe that is why I get more attracted by the works in UK.
Blablabla. I don't know the truth, and this is all just my guessing from my short knowledge.
Video As Art
Garry Hill “Around & About” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnuHVAlpY2I
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES http://www.yhchang.com/
Garry Hill’s video art “Around and About” is an experiment in making a video piece that substitutes texts in our language within his own images. Breaking apart every word and reassembling them within his symbolic visual system, the video makes a rhythmical relay of images, which can be seen or read in a new way. Within his steady narration, the viewers hear what Hill thinks but one feels it is coming from Hill’s half conscious mind.
Young Hae Chang’s works use texts as images and rhythmical beats. Texts appear and swap to other text with a strong rhythmical beat. What the viewer reads becomes the image of what he or she saw and heard. Due to the strong beats coming towards the viewer, one is forced to read and get what Chang is saying.
To wrap up, both of the videos awaken the viewer by switching the way images and texts are used usually. They break words and texts, then recompose them into their own rhythm and language. Hill makes language out of images, and Chang makes languages into images. Hill is talking about his own aesthetic and world in his mind, and Chang is talking about her propaganda. They are both awakening my way of reading and seeing texts and images.
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES http://www.yhchang.com/
Garry Hill’s video art “Around and About” is an experiment in making a video piece that substitutes texts in our language within his own images. Breaking apart every word and reassembling them within his symbolic visual system, the video makes a rhythmical relay of images, which can be seen or read in a new way. Within his steady narration, the viewers hear what Hill thinks but one feels it is coming from Hill’s half conscious mind.
Young Hae Chang’s works use texts as images and rhythmical beats. Texts appear and swap to other text with a strong rhythmical beat. What the viewer reads becomes the image of what he or she saw and heard. Due to the strong beats coming towards the viewer, one is forced to read and get what Chang is saying.
To wrap up, both of the videos awaken the viewer by switching the way images and texts are used usually. They break words and texts, then recompose them into their own rhythm and language. Hill makes language out of images, and Chang makes languages into images. Hill is talking about his own aesthetic and world in his mind, and Chang is talking about her propaganda. They are both awakening my way of reading and seeing texts and images.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Crits from profs during the presentation
LB : Describe more about what happen, how is it going to be created?
What is the relationship btw the data and the outcome? (What is the process of the translation btw the data and the outcome?)
EX: Visual is great, how do I achieve it?
Do something with the object, trick.
Like the clinical setting. It is the artifact of the future.
Reference the eternal sunshine of a spotless mind.
ML : How much does it relies on the viewers participation?
User's experience, emotion, physical relation?
RB : Visualization of emotion, coming out from me? Particiapnt bring object to look at, natural outpu+ virtual reinterpt it. Too much aritificiallity. Emotions are not static. More time based. Yes. Get a visualization from other ppl, or from other's effectres. videos, images, etc.
Emotion be evoted. I dont know how much interesting it will be in having a visualization of my emotions.
PM: Set up a private experience. Think personally about feeling. No laboratory. Capsue too tricky. Want big size image.
PP : Better to be Private as Story corp. Clinical setting is not as beautiful as the idea of capturing emotion.
Thanks for all the faculties, and also all my classmates who helped me to write down the crits.
What is the relationship btw the data and the outcome? (What is the process of the translation btw the data and the outcome?)
EX: Visual is great, how do I achieve it?
Do something with the object, trick.
Like the clinical setting. It is the artifact of the future.
Reference the eternal sunshine of a spotless mind.
ML : How much does it relies on the viewers participation?
User's experience, emotion, physical relation?
RB : Visualization of emotion, coming out from me? Particiapnt bring object to look at, natural outpu+ virtual reinterpt it. Too much aritificiallity. Emotions are not static. More time based. Yes. Get a visualization from other ppl, or from other's effectres. videos, images, etc.
Emotion be evoted. I dont know how much interesting it will be in having a visualization of my emotions.
PM: Set up a private experience. Think personally about feeling. No laboratory. Capsue too tricky. Want big size image.
PP : Better to be Private as Story corp. Clinical setting is not as beautiful as the idea of capturing emotion.
Thanks for all the faculties, and also all my classmates who helped me to write down the crits.
Self recognition
Self recognition is an important factor to determine your intelligence.
Monkeys, pigs know themselves and the world. If you show the mirror, and if the animal knows that the animal inside the mirror is itself, then it is a bit intelligent. This can be also applied to a child. If you know the relationship between you and the world, then you are a bit intelligent.
Young child don't know that. They just think they are the center of the world. Animals don't even realize themselves as an individual life. They follow their instincts, they just know that they are painful, hungry, and they are part of the nature.
Audiences who think for whom is this artwork for, and whom does the life in the artwork means, is an intelligent audience. Most of the audience, including me, do not think that deeply.
If you see a creature in a virtual world, mostly would think that creature part of themselves. One step intelligent audience would question whether it is them projected as a creature, or they are looking inside of the artist, as a creature, or they are looking at the other creature that the artist created.
I am not intelligent, and now I am trying to answer these questions, who the intelligent profs and artists gave me. It is like a new insight that I have not known before.
I also think that animals, who know how to suicide is also intelligent. It means that they know how to kill themselves, which is opposed to their instinct, to live.
Also, I like to think how human beings are the most evolved creature.
Of course, they have the best intelligent.
Another thing interesting that I came to know is that they have the best cooling system, so that they run a long distance. In short, human bodies are designed for long distance running. So they follow the animals, until the animal heats up too much so that it cannot bear, and at that point, human capture them, and ... yummy.....
So.. I would say Endurance is another thing that made human being evolved.
1. Intelligence of self recognition, and finding the relationship between the world and themselves.
2. Endurance to stick to one goal, looking forward to the future and not giving up.
Well. I am glad that monkeys do not care of others, monkeys do not have endurance as much as human. If I see somebody who only cares of himself, and cannot endure or control himself, I would call him an ANIMAL.
Monkeys, pigs know themselves and the world. If you show the mirror, and if the animal knows that the animal inside the mirror is itself, then it is a bit intelligent. This can be also applied to a child. If you know the relationship between you and the world, then you are a bit intelligent.
Young child don't know that. They just think they are the center of the world. Animals don't even realize themselves as an individual life. They follow their instincts, they just know that they are painful, hungry, and they are part of the nature.
Audiences who think for whom is this artwork for, and whom does the life in the artwork means, is an intelligent audience. Most of the audience, including me, do not think that deeply.
If you see a creature in a virtual world, mostly would think that creature part of themselves. One step intelligent audience would question whether it is them projected as a creature, or they are looking inside of the artist, as a creature, or they are looking at the other creature that the artist created.
I am not intelligent, and now I am trying to answer these questions, who the intelligent profs and artists gave me. It is like a new insight that I have not known before.
I also think that animals, who know how to suicide is also intelligent. It means that they know how to kill themselves, which is opposed to their instinct, to live.
Also, I like to think how human beings are the most evolved creature.
Of course, they have the best intelligent.
Another thing interesting that I came to know is that they have the best cooling system, so that they run a long distance. In short, human bodies are designed for long distance running. So they follow the animals, until the animal heats up too much so that it cannot bear, and at that point, human capture them, and ... yummy.....
So.. I would say Endurance is another thing that made human being evolved.
1. Intelligence of self recognition, and finding the relationship between the world and themselves.
2. Endurance to stick to one goal, looking forward to the future and not giving up.
Well. I am glad that monkeys do not care of others, monkeys do not have endurance as much as human. If I see somebody who only cares of himself, and cannot endure or control himself, I would call him an ANIMAL.
To wrap up
To wrap up what I am thinking now.
1. I will first make the physical device, and make the correspond-able visuals.
2. Visuals, make it interesting, diverse, lively.
3. I am using people's body, to give life to my virtual world, and people are using their body to see and explore there. I am triggering people's physiological response to give life to this world, and they powers the world. Meaning? I can think when I am making.
Don't get afraid, don't run away. Get your hands dirty.
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Some ideas that I got from, after the critique.
1. The world, I am creating would be maybe of about the creature in Asian myths to bring happiness, within Utopia.
2. Maybe I can say that I need your body to explore this second utopia which I have created. What I am not sure is whether let them to see and control in real time or to hide them. If they can control their body, and see the result, then probably.....But my intention is not about curing their body, which is already there. And it is toooo simple and direct. Maybe I have to think more. I think it might be fun for people to see the result in real time, but that might end up with not good result for my drawings.But if it is not about emotion, and it is about they are seeing the second world, then it seems ok. Lets see. Testing!
3. Maybe I can say that this second nature I created is my ideal utopia. And I want you to give characteristics and life to the creatures in this utopia, the neverland, which will never grow old or die. ?
The faculty thinks the idea of preserving emotion is beautiful and meaningful.
But Yael was keep questioning why, which I assume was not meaningful enough for her.
I have to focus on my idea, what I think is better, but I think it is best to satisfy both. Only one is not enough. Also, what I am doing is not relevant to my idea, so that might be a problem of this conflict.
Ggggg. I should keep thinking.
1. I will first make the physical device, and make the correspond-able visuals.
2. Visuals, make it interesting, diverse, lively.
3. I am using people's body, to give life to my virtual world, and people are using their body to see and explore there. I am triggering people's physiological response to give life to this world, and they powers the world. Meaning? I can think when I am making.
Don't get afraid, don't run away. Get your hands dirty.
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Some ideas that I got from, after the critique.
1. The world, I am creating would be maybe of about the creature in Asian myths to bring happiness, within Utopia.
2. Maybe I can say that I need your body to explore this second utopia which I have created. What I am not sure is whether let them to see and control in real time or to hide them. If they can control their body, and see the result, then probably.....But my intention is not about curing their body, which is already there. And it is toooo simple and direct. Maybe I have to think more. I think it might be fun for people to see the result in real time, but that might end up with not good result for my drawings.But if it is not about emotion, and it is about they are seeing the second world, then it seems ok. Lets see. Testing!
3. Maybe I can say that this second nature I created is my ideal utopia. And I want you to give characteristics and life to the creatures in this utopia, the neverland, which will never grow old or die. ?
The faculty thinks the idea of preserving emotion is beautiful and meaningful.
But Yael was keep questioning why, which I assume was not meaningful enough for her.
I have to focus on my idea, what I think is better, but I think it is best to satisfy both. Only one is not enough. Also, what I am doing is not relevant to my idea, so that might be a problem of this conflict.
Ggggg. I should keep thinking.
Crit from the faculty
1. Testing, testing, testing.
I have to show the process of the generative drawings, of how it will connect with what data.
I have to think of how to drive emotions. What questions?
2. Setting.
I have to think, but not be so crazy. It has pros, cons, it is controversary.
3. Visuals.
Already there. Be confident, and clarify them.
4. Idea.
Capturing emotion is beautiful, and it is the right timing, the tech is close.
I have to show the process of the generative drawings, of how it will connect with what data.
I have to think of how to drive emotions. What questions?
2. Setting.
I have to think, but not be so crazy. It has pros, cons, it is controversary.
3. Visuals.
Already there. Be confident, and clarify them.
4. Idea.
Capturing emotion is beautiful, and it is the right timing, the tech is close.
Crit with YAEL KANAREK
I got a chance to get critiques from Yael.
It was really helpful, because she made everything simple, to understand, and asked me to explain it that way. Also, she has a sense to see what I am doing, which I cannot see by myself.
The whole theme of the body of my work would be "Happiness". Happiness can mean a lot of different things, according to the culture. She suggested me to look for happiness in broad ways, such as budhism, nirvana, bliss, in Asian culture, etc... Happiness can be not always happy. Cute creatures in Asian mythology,etc...
For my thesis project, she gave me a good insight.
1. What is emotion? For her, it is like bitter, sweet. So it can change within a small change.
2. What I am doing is Data visualization, but she wants it not to be too simple or direct. She wants something unexpected to happen. The visuals, should be diverse, to make people get interested, and not get bored. This would be a world I am creating, and I can make different variations with algorithms.
3. Also, what I am doing can be seen as I am using people's body, to draw an image. It is their body, that I am using, and they are using their body, to see my world or the second body that I created. So it is a different way of communication. I am differing communication by them, and I am making my own language for them to come and see. It is NOT they looking inside of their mind, or body. It is THEY coming in to see MY WORD.
4. I asked of how to trigger emotion. I am using people's body to play with. So I can do whatever to trigger people's emotion or change of body. The visuals might relate to emotion, but what is happening is not really about emotion. But you would have to see. I can read a poem, or a story. I can make a sound. I can ask them to grab something that is most meaningful from their bags. Also, when I am asking questions, I can use the questionnaire that are already out there.
5.If I am preserving emotion, why? And for whom is it preserved for? I could not answer, cuz I did not think that deeply. Probably it would relate to your memories, and it would be for you. Like photographs for memories. But actually, this was not the core of my initial intention.
I asked about visuals. She said in this case, abstraction might relate more. But I can look for Kandinsky, Jung (Architypical.....)
Anyway, I was happy to get everything simplified, because before, I was in a panic where everything was vague.
It was really helpful, because she made everything simple, to understand, and asked me to explain it that way. Also, she has a sense to see what I am doing, which I cannot see by myself.
The whole theme of the body of my work would be "Happiness". Happiness can mean a lot of different things, according to the culture. She suggested me to look for happiness in broad ways, such as budhism, nirvana, bliss, in Asian culture, etc... Happiness can be not always happy. Cute creatures in Asian mythology,etc...
For my thesis project, she gave me a good insight.
1. What is emotion? For her, it is like bitter, sweet. So it can change within a small change.
2. What I am doing is Data visualization, but she wants it not to be too simple or direct. She wants something unexpected to happen. The visuals, should be diverse, to make people get interested, and not get bored. This would be a world I am creating, and I can make different variations with algorithms.
3. Also, what I am doing can be seen as I am using people's body, to draw an image. It is their body, that I am using, and they are using their body, to see my world or the second body that I created. So it is a different way of communication. I am differing communication by them, and I am making my own language for them to come and see. It is NOT they looking inside of their mind, or body. It is THEY coming in to see MY WORD.
4. I asked of how to trigger emotion. I am using people's body to play with. So I can do whatever to trigger people's emotion or change of body. The visuals might relate to emotion, but what is happening is not really about emotion. But you would have to see. I can read a poem, or a story. I can make a sound. I can ask them to grab something that is most meaningful from their bags. Also, when I am asking questions, I can use the questionnaire that are already out there.
5.If I am preserving emotion, why? And for whom is it preserved for? I could not answer, cuz I did not think that deeply. Probably it would relate to your memories, and it would be for you. Like photographs for memories. But actually, this was not the core of my initial intention.
I asked about visuals. She said in this case, abstraction might relate more. But I can look for Kandinsky, Jung (Architypical.....)
Anyway, I was happy to get everything simplified, because before, I was in a panic where everything was vague.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Thesis Feedback from profs
I talked with the professors, individually, about my thesis, of about generating images using bio-signal data such as brainwave.
I talked with Liubo first. I told him that I will be making generative drawings, and it came from this imagination of what the form to store and exchange, embed emotion would be within the technology of telecommunication and artificial intelligence.
He asked me what the viewers would be looking inside, and what the connection would they be able to find. Would it be the avatar of themselves, or would another existence. If it was an avatar, then what makes me to connect to that creature.
If they were looking at their brain, then to give a situation reasonable.He told me about the movie "avatar" , which made the situation that a person got injured by an accident, and had to embed himself into the avatar, using lots of wires and electronics. He gave an example to make the exhibition space to look like people walking into someone's brain, if they were poking into the brain of someonelse.
Also he asked me why they would have to see it but it was left without any answer. He also said that as an artist, I have to make a statement.
I talked about that it does not necessary have to be brain, but it is just an interface to capture the emotion. I also talked about motion, which can be the interface to convey emotion. He gave me the example to make a setting that people have to lay down still, without any movement, in order to make drawing images to trigger. Otherwise, using lots of crazy motion works would be hard to relate to emotion.
I liked all the ideas, which seemed very psychologically important for me to think.
After that, I talked with Peter Patchen, about generative drawings drawn by human emotion, which can be detected by people's mind, and he asked me of "why" the first, which made me speechless. There is a technology already there, why do I have to do it. We already have spoken language, is that not enough to exchange emotion? Or, if it is because of telecommunication problem within non face to face communication, then maybe I can put biofeedback devices to the keyboard and make the background change according to my emotion.
But the main point I came to realize of why I want to do this was because I wanted to be able to "store" and give, exchange, emotion.
He liked that statement. Store emotion and open it up again. What would the device be? Would you give a drawing? Would u give a USB? or a CD? How would people deal with that emotion? If it was sadness, would they be able to throw it away? or would they be able to crunch it? etc...
What is the most happy moment that you want to store? I said it was the moment getting enough sunlight, giggling with my friends. "sunlight" would be a simple information and "the moment with friends, in Korea" would be a complicated information.
He also said that in this situation, the way to call up the emotion of the viewers is also important. Also, to make that experience meaningful, people should be able to find the connection of their emotion and the generative drawings. If it is just people's emotion triggering, and the drawings just go by itself, then what would the association be within people's emotion and the drawings?
He suggested me to perform as a doctor, wearing a white gown, and let people were the biofeedback devices, and to confess the moment of happiness or sadness. If I make like 20~30 drawings, and show them, then it can also be a way to tell whether people are lying their emotion or not.
I asked of some artists that might be helpful for me, and he recommended me of "Keingold, Lynn Hershmen, Tony Oursler, Duchamp, Clavilux Jr. Thomas Wilfred c.1930(Color Organ),
Gregory Lam-Niemeyer (Gravity, Elevator Installation)"
Anyway, I have to think more and more, how to make the experience meaningful, and how to make delicate desires fulfilling through my work.
It was worth to talk with. I think it was the exact good spot.
I talked with Liubo first. I told him that I will be making generative drawings, and it came from this imagination of what the form to store and exchange, embed emotion would be within the technology of telecommunication and artificial intelligence.
He asked me what the viewers would be looking inside, and what the connection would they be able to find. Would it be the avatar of themselves, or would another existence. If it was an avatar, then what makes me to connect to that creature.
If they were looking at their brain, then to give a situation reasonable.He told me about the movie "avatar" , which made the situation that a person got injured by an accident, and had to embed himself into the avatar, using lots of wires and electronics. He gave an example to make the exhibition space to look like people walking into someone's brain, if they were poking into the brain of someonelse.
Also he asked me why they would have to see it but it was left without any answer. He also said that as an artist, I have to make a statement.
I talked about that it does not necessary have to be brain, but it is just an interface to capture the emotion. I also talked about motion, which can be the interface to convey emotion. He gave me the example to make a setting that people have to lay down still, without any movement, in order to make drawing images to trigger. Otherwise, using lots of crazy motion works would be hard to relate to emotion.
I liked all the ideas, which seemed very psychologically important for me to think.
After that, I talked with Peter Patchen, about generative drawings drawn by human emotion, which can be detected by people's mind, and he asked me of "why" the first, which made me speechless. There is a technology already there, why do I have to do it. We already have spoken language, is that not enough to exchange emotion? Or, if it is because of telecommunication problem within non face to face communication, then maybe I can put biofeedback devices to the keyboard and make the background change according to my emotion.
But the main point I came to realize of why I want to do this was because I wanted to be able to "store" and give, exchange, emotion.
He liked that statement. Store emotion and open it up again. What would the device be? Would you give a drawing? Would u give a USB? or a CD? How would people deal with that emotion? If it was sadness, would they be able to throw it away? or would they be able to crunch it? etc...
What is the most happy moment that you want to store? I said it was the moment getting enough sunlight, giggling with my friends. "sunlight" would be a simple information and "the moment with friends, in Korea" would be a complicated information.
He also said that in this situation, the way to call up the emotion of the viewers is also important. Also, to make that experience meaningful, people should be able to find the connection of their emotion and the generative drawings. If it is just people's emotion triggering, and the drawings just go by itself, then what would the association be within people's emotion and the drawings?
He suggested me to perform as a doctor, wearing a white gown, and let people were the biofeedback devices, and to confess the moment of happiness or sadness. If I make like 20~30 drawings, and show them, then it can also be a way to tell whether people are lying their emotion or not.
I asked of some artists that might be helpful for me, and he recommended me of "Keingold, Lynn Hershmen, Tony Oursler, Duchamp, Clavilux Jr. Thomas Wilfred c.1930(Color Organ),
Gregory Lam-Niemeyer (Gravity, Elevator Installation)"
Anyway, I have to think more and more, how to make the experience meaningful, and how to make delicate desires fulfilling through my work.
It was worth to talk with. I think it was the exact good spot.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Defining stuffs
I need to know of what is what, such as definitions, etc.
I was thinking what if emotions can be artificial intelligence. Oguz liked this statement, but I even do not understand what I meant, cuz I was not sure of the definition. The kind of artificial intelligence that I understand and Oguz thinks can be different.
Let's start with emotion.
What is emotion?
Emotion is not phenomenon, but a construct
Components of emotion: cognitive processes, subjective feelings, physiological arousal, behavioral reactions
Emotion is a concept involving three components , which would be Subjective experience, Expressions (audiovisual: face, gesture, posture, voice intonation, breathing noise), Biological arousal (ANS: heart rate, respiration frequency/intensity, perspiration, temperature, muscle tension, brain wave)
Affect of the emotion would be some more than emotions, including personality factors and moods
Mood is a long-term emotional state, typically global and very variable over the time, dominates the intensity of each short-term emotional states.
Different emotional expressions produce different changes in autonomic activity:
Anger: increased heart rate and skin temperature
Fear: increased heart rate, decreased skin temperature
Happiness: decreased heart rate, no change in skin temperature
Relative emotional cues are like this.
HR: anger, fear, sadness > happiness, surprise > disgust
HR Acceleration: anger > happiness
Temp: anger > happiness, sadness > fear surprise, disgust
There are several ways to capture the physiological information.
The next is Artificial Intelligence.
It is kind of hard to define. But I will just say for me.
1. It should have its own opinion, and also know what it is doing.
2. It should have the tendency to grow or reproduce, and react to its environment, to enhance the chance of survival.
3. It should have a certain flow or fluctuation as an analog data, not a form as digitally 0, 1.
4. It should have randomness and flaw. It should never be the same every time, and should have a chance to fail, which makes it more precious when it is successful.
I was thinking what if emotions can be artificial intelligence. Oguz liked this statement, but I even do not understand what I meant, cuz I was not sure of the definition. The kind of artificial intelligence that I understand and Oguz thinks can be different.
Let's start with emotion.
What is emotion?
Emotion is not phenomenon, but a construct
Components of emotion: cognitive processes, subjective feelings, physiological arousal, behavioral reactions
Emotion is a concept involving three components , which would be Subjective experience, Expressions (audiovisual: face, gesture, posture, voice intonation, breathing noise), Biological arousal (ANS: heart rate, respiration frequency/intensity, perspiration, temperature, muscle tension, brain wave)
Affect of the emotion would be some more than emotions, including personality factors and moods
Mood is a long-term emotional state, typically global and very variable over the time, dominates the intensity of each short-term emotional states.
Different emotional expressions produce different changes in autonomic activity:
Anger: increased heart rate and skin temperature
Fear: increased heart rate, decreased skin temperature
Happiness: decreased heart rate, no change in skin temperature
Relative emotional cues are like this.
HR: anger, fear, sadness > happiness, surprise > disgust
HR Acceleration: anger > happiness
Temp: anger > happiness, sadness > fear surprise, disgust
There are several ways to capture the physiological information.
The next is Artificial Intelligence.
It is kind of hard to define. But I will just say for me.
1. It should have its own opinion, and also know what it is doing.
2. It should have the tendency to grow or reproduce, and react to its environment, to enhance the chance of survival.
3. It should have a certain flow or fluctuation as an analog data, not a form as digitally 0, 1.
4. It should have randomness and flaw. It should never be the same every time, and should have a chance to fail, which makes it more precious when it is successful.
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