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Posted: October 29, 2019 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »Pressure project 3 is about revealing a mystery during the interaction with audience member(s). I thought for a long time about what mystery I want to reveal but ended up with nothing. However, I saw my metal box for my welding exercise in art sculpture class which it has a big gap I failed to fill in. I thought this gap really can means something since people can never open this box and can never see the inside clear by just looking through the gap. The metal box can also connect with Makey Makey and become a button to trigger the system. So, I decided to make a “Mystery Box”.
This is how I connect the box to my computer, so as soon as people touch the box, people can see what is actually happening inside the box, which I use Isadora to fake a inside world and convey that through computer interface.
At the very beginning, I didn’t plan to make this project mean. But I saw some news about a Korean pop artist suicided at her place during the time I created this project. She encountered horrible internet violence before she die and she cannot bear that anymore and choose to leave the world. I was shocked by that news since I know her pretty well and she was only 25 years old. So I decided to insert a little bit educational purpose to let people feel what is the feeling of being judged badly with no reason and what can we do when we are in that situation.
I use the live capture so that the users can see their faces on the screen while the bad words are keep flying in front of their face. They have method to escape this scene by say no. But I declined the captured volume so that users really need to shout out no to reach the highest level to escape. I want the users can be angry and really saying no to the violence.
It was a really great experience when seeing my classmates trying altogether to increase the volume. But in one scene when I have 3 projector capturing the live images on the screen, I typed the word “Ugly” but changed the font so that the word turned into some other characters I don’t know. I should be careful about this since I don’t know the exact meaning of these and it may influence people’s experience if they know that.