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October 2022

Daily Practice – Day 5 Electric Guitar

Daily Practice:

Try to play 水调歌头（Prelude to Water Melody)  with ~6 different instruments.

Prelude to Water Melody is an ancient Chinese poem. It has been set to music, and the song is popular in different generations of China

The wiki link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuidiao_Getou

Day 5: Electric Guitar

An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar, it uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals, which ultimately are reproduced as sound by loudspeakers.

The Record:

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daily practice 6

Day 6:

Avalokitesvara figure from Indian Buddhism: 

In ancient Indian, Avalokitesvara looks like plain people. He doesn’t have complicated  decoration and his upper body is naked. He gives us an ascetic feeling. Below is my Indian Avalokitesvara figure’s montage.

Assignment 2 topic

Topic: The evolution of design in Mecha Anime

Answers:I will research both Japanese and American style. I find the design trend is very close to what people want themselves to be. The robot is just a mirror to reflect the hope of human beings(flying to the space, change the shapes,being Indestructible)

Great – I see your topic refined to “The robot is just a mirror to reflect the hope of human beings.” The questions to get to a focal point can be along the lines of “why?” Who are the stakeholders in creating this desire (animation companies, robotics industry, etc)? Why do we want to fly to/in space, shape-shift, be Indestructible?

Progress:

Topic: Animation, timeline, robot design

System map: I will research on its origin, history and the culture in different countries. 

Stakeholders: audience, director,toy factory

Critical Analysis: why the design of robot is changing all the times, how does it change,what and who make these changes

Form/Affordances: I want find some way to make audience design there own robots

Metaphor: The growth of mankind itself

Tone: Industrial style

Intended experience/outcome: what kind of things we want most but we can not do by ourselves and need a robot to help us

Jun-Daily Practice day6-1990s p3

ghost in the shell

GHOST IN THE SHELL is also a robort animation, but it is quiet different between the other series. It is the beginning of the concept of cyberpunk. The robort is ourselves.

Jun-Daily Practice day5-1990s p2

Neon Genesis Evangelion

The series explores the experiences and emotions of Evangelion pilots and members of Nerv as they try to prevent Angels from causing more cataclysms. In the process, they are called upon to understand the ultimate causes of events and the motives for human action. The series has been described as a deconstruction of the mecha genre[5] and it features archetypal imagery derived from Shinto cosmology as well as Jewish and Christian mystical traditions, including Midrashic tales and Kabbalah. The psychoanalytic accounts of human behavior put forward by Freud and Jung are also prominently featured.

Siri Daily Practice-4

My initial critical thinking about AI-Generated art is about the copyright, is it belongs to the artist(user)/developer/company/AI? In other words, what do people or organizations think about AI-generated art? Do arts must have to be created by people?

I created this feedback loop below:

 

Read list:

https://www.americanscientist.org/article/ai-is-blurring-the-definition-of-artist

https://www.latimes.com/projects/artificial-intelligence-generated-art-ownership-bias-dall-e-midjourney/

https://www.copyright.gov/rulings-filings/review-board/docs/a-recent-entrance-to-paradise.pdf

Daily Practice 6

What are some possible ways to pave a future? Here are some examples from this year or recent years.

  1. Oregon State: Educating all students about the usage of other symbols similar to the Nazi Swastika, such as the 卍。
  2. How do we deal with current events and hate crimes involving the Swastika symbol though?
  3. How sensitive should we be about the Nazi Swastika, considering a lot of decorative patterns can look similar to it.
  4. Is the art world a safe space to use the Swastika for critical thinking purposes?

Siri Daily Practice-3

The DALL·E reminds me of the topic Jaye introduced last semester, about AI data biases, so I added a new path about this topic and connected it with the related impact to other aspects.

I also tried to use Midjourney to test the data biases but found the developers may have fixed the problem and intentionally set the rule to prevent racist, sexist and other stereotypes.

Prompt: a man sitting in a prison cell

Prompt: a photo of an angry man