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My favorite one was Super Mario Clouds. The frame is quite simple; there are clouds randomly move through the screen. It looks very nostalgic to me, since I love the game Super Mario when I was little. It also brings me a sad feeling, since there is only cloud in the frame. I stranded in front, waiting to see if one of the character would show up, but there was only cloud randomly come up, as if Mario is gone. And actually, he is kinda gone for me, since my childhood is gone.

This project is created by Cory Arcangel, based a cartridge of Super Mario Brothers, “the original version of the blockbuster Nintendo video game released in the United States in 1985.” It is representing the game in a more abstract way as the sound and other visual element is unused, and audience can still associate this project with the game Super Mario.

 

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The another that catches my attention as soon as I saw it was Titled Plane, which is composed by LED lights bulbs. I love this piece since it gives me a quite, peace, and romantic feeling, also a little mystical. It makes me wanna pull my parents here, and let them sits here and talk, relax together.

This work is created by Jim Campbell. He handcrafted all the light bulb, expanding 2-d image to a 3d one. “The experience of Tilted Plane is akin to wading into the ocean or being surrounded by birds in flight. The space of the room constricts beneath the light bulbs and yet the dark seems interplanetary”.