My project is an animation of eye blinking and a butterfly flapping wings inside of the eye. When the mouse is clicked, the eye would stop blinking and the tear would appear on the screen. This project is inspired by the idea of sometimes people walk into our lives and we build a relationship with them, whether it is a friendship or romantic relationship. For different reasons, these people may walk out of our lives someday and losing a relationship with a person can be really hard no matter what kind of relationshipit is. I took a picture of my eye when it is open and when it is close, and make the blinking effect by using the animation function in p5js. The reason why I chose to use a butterfly as one of the most important elements of my project is when people think of a butterfly, they often think of something that is beautiful and delicate. The relationship we build with others can be really beautiful and important to us, so I used butterfly as a representation of the relationship and when the relationship is gone, the butterfly flies away. Link to my code: https://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/642522

 

resources cited:

“10+ Times People Disappeared In Paintings.” Bored Panda, www.boredpanda.com/model-disappear-paintings-ben-heine/.”

“Soumen Roy https://www.indianartideas.in/artist/soumen-roy/3565”

 

 

When I first saw the word “API” I thought to myself: “what the heck is API?” API seems confusing to people until they understand what it stands for: Application Programming Interface. In Jer’s article ART AND THE API, he defines API as a bridge that allows computer programs to communicate. But how is it related to art ? Well, according to Jer, API can be extremely useful for media artists because it enables them to “makes a permanent link between two applications, one whose pitch and timbre can change as the data themselves are updated.”

An example of the use of API in the art world could be the  Met collection API. It is the Met’s Open Access datasets that are available through a RESTful web service in JSON format. The API provides access to all of the Met’s Open Access data and to corresponding high resolution images.

My project is this randomly generated abstract landscape and the numbers on the screen represent the latitudes and longitude of places. My original idea was to generate random landmarks of some of my favorite cities but I went to an art exhibition by a RISD professor last Thursday. He made these art works that are abstract landscapes. I looked at his art works and thought to myself that my project did not have to real places, I could just make abstract landscapes like these.

 

 

 

p5 sound library: p5.sound extends p5 with web audio functionality including audio input, playback, analysis and synthesis.

example: load and play sound using preload()

reference links:

https://p5js.org/reference/#/libraries/p5.sound

https://p5js.org/examples/sound-load-and-play-sound.html

 

My project is a frog eating flies. There are 60 flies on the screen that represent minutes, and every minute one fly would be eaten (disappear). There are 24 lotus leaves and every hour the frog will jump to the next lotus leaf. The background changes every 10 seconds. 

1. Every minute passes, the frog will eat one bug, one bug on the screen disappears
2. Every hour passes, the frog will move to the right
3. The background color changes as the time passes by (if it’s day time, the background color becomes white, if it’s night time the background color becomes black )
4. Drawing: one frog, 60 bugs, lotus leaves

 

1. The first idea I have is frog eating flies. Each flies the frog eats represent one hour.
2. The second idea I have is flower growing/blooming. The growing of each petal of the flower represents one hour and after 12 hours the first flower would disappear and the second flower would appear. Background color changes as the time passes by to represent day time and night time.
3. The third idea I have is the computer screen shows different numbers in 24 different languages to represent time. Background color changes as the time passes by to represent day time and night time.

Is fashion modern? When it comes to fashion, people often think of its long history and how much it has impacted people’s lives since the very beginning. Fashion is something that has existed for a very long time, people don’t really relate fashion with modern. However, a team called Accurat studio decides to take a step forward and embed fashion with technology. In Oct of 2017, their team did an exhibition at MOMA, exploring the present, past and sometimes the future — with 111 items that have had strong impact in the 20th, 21st centuries. They dug into the stories behind each item and built a landscape that shows the overview of the structure of the show as well as a visual access to the stories behind it. One of the example was that the Dashiki was actually not a traditional west Africa garment like most people thought, instead it was a mass-produced modern garment emerged in New York City in the 60’s.

One of the sections that caught my attention was the section that showed different pieces of clothing item that can fit different body types. It visualized different body shapes in different scenarios, showing that our bodies were not always so perfect, and no matter what our bodies sizes or shapes were, we should feel confident and beautiful. In the exhibition, they also took pictures of tattoo and remapped them onto a model’s body. The tattoo can also follow the curve of the body, and it redefined what tattoo meant to people and showed how arts could interfere with technology and created a new form of it.

links:

https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1638

https://www.accurat.it/works/moma/