Digital World and Image studio blog

This project provides a collaborating experience, where performer and audiences will work together using their body as an expressive tool to create dynamic paintings. On one hand, the performer will be dancing on the stage while painting positive shapes. A kinect will be recognizing and recording the performances movements so that the performer could use his/her full body as paint brush to paint on the screen. The paint action itself will be recorded and animated. On the other hand, the participants will also paint in front of the dancer to “erase” and paint over with negative shapes. Together, the dancer and the participants create a dynamic painting with their shadows interacting with each other.

The audiences will be participating with the creation of the dynamic painting by revisiting and modifying the dancer’s movements. It’s very interactive and illuminating in the night .

Here’s the video prototype of the project:

This craft activity is designed to remind people to call friends and family members from time to time by creating and displaying the craft. The idea is to use paper cutting, one of the simplest forms of craft, to transform single set of telephone digits to visible building blocks.

The procedure of making a single building is as followings:

First Step—-Draw

Take out a piece of paper, write down the number on 1/4 part of the paper as baseline. Then draw the same amount of squares under the corresponding number.

Second Step—-Cut
Cut the outline of the blocks out. Cut two sides as well to get the negative shape. Remember to keep the baseline of each side attached.

Third Step—-Fold
Fold the cut out parts up.

You can populate the building blocks and eventually form a city skyline. Display your telephone city in your territory and you are always reminded to get in touch with your beloved ones.