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.