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My Video for New Media final was a cooking show on making lemonade, makeshift-style played alongside a different, real-time angle, showcasing the ingredients and action in close-up (the horror!).

How it was set up for the final presentation:

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Ten still images and text from a Craigslist Missed Connection:

Missed Connection from yin ho on Vimeo.

aka Deep Monitor. I did two site-specific presentations of a monitor’s flickering hopes and fears via Droste effect. Reflection and repetition reveal a subconscious layer, and the monitor – with its fear of storage, wish for a family, a vacation, a picnic -displays a lonesome machine’s yearning.

For the ITP Spring Show:

A few stills of the images displayed on screen:

Initially, and for class presentation, I had the monitor on the floor in the lounge, flashing images:

Notes on the backend: the randomized selection of selected images and the randomized duration for which they are displayed were programmed in OpenFrameworks.

Jason Aston and I took the consequential Time assignment literally:

Consequential Clock from yin ho on Vimeo.

For the PxP midterm 2 and for the Synchronicity assignment for Time, Jason and I did a series of morphing photographs to represent one possible outcome to winning the lottery.

The stills:

We began with mirrors suspended from the ceiling:

Seeing each reflection but once proved difficult, though occurring more from happenstance than precise placement. We used see-thru mirrors, which only allow reflection from particular angles, R-50, surface, and colored mirrors.

Another configuration:

Mock-up of a site-specific projection exhibited at SITEFest, 319 Scholes, Bushwick, Brooklyn.

As a user stands before the piece, the blank projection shifts to reveal the underlying wall:

For my PxP midterm 1, I worked on rotating a 3-dimensional model of rootless/disembodied grass in openFrameworks.

Some still photos of the model without lighting effects:

Some with lighting (helps w/ the dimensionality):

For this week’s assignment, Andrea, Jason, and I worked on a possible midterm concept to create a region for time, and investigate its increments.

Around the Corner, Daniel Buren, 2005

Timaeus proposed time as a moving image of eternity, “an image moving according to eternal number, that which we call time.” Eternity, in this example, is something that “abides in unity” and remains the same with itself (The Timaeus of Plato). Time, in this regard, corresponded with cosmology, a time within the heavens. It later became regarded as belonging to psychology, distinct from the sky, and of the soul.

For our project, we wanted to look at both perspectives: the longer, cosmological view of time, and its psychological, more relative, and incremented context. To do so, we wanted to create a region, where, reminiscent of the soul in Augustine’s writings, memory of the past, expectation for the future, and attention to the present meet (paraphrasing John Sallis).

The project we proposed is an area of mirrored and reflective surfaces where a solitary observer can walk through, seeing one reflection of themselves at a time. The incremental view of seeing oneself exactly at that instance, and solely in a mirror pane in a field/maze of them metaphorically speaks to the fleeting aspect of the present moment. Yet, it juxtaposes that transience with the long view of our physical persistence of being, and seeing the next reflection of ourself in the following instance. From the outside observer’s perspective, they could view the convergence and multiple reflections of individual. It is only within the mirrored space that one reflection can be seen at a time.

We’re currently working on creating model panels that we can move around to design the space. Each mirror must be angled precisely so the participant can see only themselves. We are also looking at possible films to coat the mirrors with, or distorting their surface so a reflection could only be seen from a specific angle.

Grand Nucleo, Helio Oiticica

Possible setup, with some mirrors on the ground, some suspended