My final project was inspired by my daily commute on the monorail of my hometown (Daegu, South Korea). It showcases places I regularly visited, landmarks, and the train I took “moving” through the landscape. I focused my project on the aesthetic more than its functions, because I wanted to make the project personal through making all of the assets by hand, through Adobe Illustrator, with a drawing tablet.

I started by brainstorming the locations I wanted to include in my sketch by looking through pictures I had taken at certain places in Daegu. Based on that, I compiled a list of feasible locations to draw and arranged them generally by location based on the Daegu subway map. After a few days of work, I completed the illustrations, exported them as pngs, and brought them into openprocessing. I decided to keep the subway stationery in the center and move the background image to show movement. I included a forloop to loop the image to make a continuous landscape.

Initially, I wanted to use a weather API to change the background colors (the sky) based on the temperature and the sunset/sunrise times. I made a separate openprocessing document to include the api. After getting data from the weather api, I used if statements to determine the colors, which I picked from Warhol’s sunset print collection. Generally, I went with warm colors for hot weather and cool colors for cold weather. After that, I added the code to the landscape animation, but the sketch would not load or disappear when I included the background changes, so I had to leave the weather segment out to present a functioning project.

Resources:

Warhol, A. (1972). Untitled from Sunset. [Screenprint on Paper].

Lee, H. (2016). Seoulite [Album Cover]. YG Entertainment.

I remember feeling a bit confused about the purpose of Cory ArcAngel’s Super Mario Clouds piece at the Whitney Museum. Because I forgot to read the description, it remained in my head as a bit of an oddity- a seemingly outdated relic. After seeing the short documentary that detailed the project’s purpose and claim, my skepticism grew. ArcAngel’s work was known as an open-source project that hacked into a game and deleted all elements of the game, besides the clouds. However, the documentary tests ArcAngel’s process and discovers that the Super Mario Clouds very obviously differs from the result of simply removing everything but the clouds. I think the additional research does change the work for me because ironically, the artist no longer seems credible.

• This work, The Battle of Algiers, is an interactive work that uses a touch screen as the input and projects the scene onto a wall, as well. Without the directions, this exhibit would not have been able to stand alone. The system in which this exhibit worked was dependent on conflicts and accumulation of different cell groups. It was based on a film about Algerian nationalist struggle leading to independence from France. One of the artists, Marc Lafia, is focused on computation and algorithmic procedures as means of producing new structures of organizing images, as well as conveying emotion.

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• It took me a moment to comprehend what was happening in the motion of the panel, because of the lack of detail and lines. I thought it was a simple animation (running and falling), but I felt that the red and black color scheme suggested a deeper and slightly ominous message. The purpose of the work was to explore the composition of digital images through converting them into a matrix of LED lights. The artist, Jim Campbell shows that meaning can be portrayed through little information. His works with custom electronics were inspired by a theory developed by the engineer Harry Nyquist that dealt with converting analog into digital, and digital into analog.

The City Bikes API is used to find information about bike share systems, such as the available bikes, available docks, quotes, and passes. Usage fees are charged with passes, and possible tax rates that a specific bike could be charged. It is possible to get the location of a single bike or station as well, and the information for a bike system, such as an ID or access key. The data extends beyond 400 cities around the world and it’s open to public use. This data can be used for research, projects, or creating apps, and it is used by developers, companies, and cyclists.

Draw Circle as background

Create sine wave class- parameters:

• Call this class in Draw function for seconds, minutes, hours.
• Calculate the sine waves- different sizes for increments of time
• Fill under the wave- different colors/transparencies for different increments of time

Add numbers at bottom of the frame- jumbled/”at the bottom of the sea”

Add marine life.