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Magic Shadow Puppet

To create more interactive experiences based on the preservation of traditional Chinese culture.

Jiyan Wang

https://wp.nyu.edu/jiyanwilliamwang/2020/05/10/virtual-show-video-documentation/

Description

Shadow Puppetry is one of the intangible cultural heritages that has history of over thousands of years. My project is based on the performance of shadow puppet but put it in a more interact way that audience can control the whole performance themselves, which is different from the traditional counterpart that the controller has to be behind the scene.

I use the Ultrasonic Ranger to detect the distance from audience to the sensor so that the servo motor will move the shadow puppet as well. In this way we can see the performance of the shadow puppet and performance along with it as well. As for the set up, my project will be put in a dark room with only light on the puppet. We are able to see audience's shadow as well. Moreover, there will also be a background music and it can change its volume due to the movement of the audience.

IMA/IMB Shanghai
INTM-SHU.101.5
Interaction Lab
Culture,Play/Games
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Gun Grave

A music box consists of 3d printed AK47 and knitted flowers. It interprets empathy, peace and love.

Muru Chen

https://youtu.be/S4bgo_as5b4

Description

Gun Grave is a music box. The song adapts Merry Christmas Mr. Larence. The music box consists of knitted flowers, 3D printed AK47 and hay powder. This project express the wish for peace and the emphathy for the children who suffered war. But this product is not only for those children, but also for those who live in peace.

IMA/IMB Shanghai
INTM-SHU.238.1
Toy Design and Prototyping
Sound,Art
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A Normal Spring

A laser cut mechanism automata toy

Muru Chen

https://youtu.be/IyxfPIduWqM

Description

This is a mechanical toy containing storytelling:
“In this special year, I wish I could have a normal spring.
Feel the breath of the nature and play on the grass.”
The mechanisms are gears and cranks

IMA/IMB Shanghai
INTM-SHU.238.1
Toy Design and Prototyping
Art
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A lonely Bird

Explore how game mechanics trigger players' emotional attachment to NPCs.

Muru Chen

https://wp.nyu.edu/muruchen/capstone-a-lonely-bird-how-game-mechanics-can-trigger-players-emotional-attachment-to-npcs/

Description

It is a 3D experimental game that explores how game mechanics trigger players' emotional attachment to NPCs.

IMA/IMB Shanghai
INTM-SHU.401.3
Capstone Studio (Shanghai)
Play/Games
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"WINDSOUL" Balloonship

A 3d printed steampunk airship model.

Muru Chen

https://wp.nyu.edu/muruchen/toy-design-week-6-project-2/

Description

I made the ballon ship for my friend whose Overwatch ID is called “WiNDSOUL”. He loves movies with the pirate theme and the games that have Steampunk style. I 3d printed the ship model and used two color to paint it.

IMA/IMB Shanghai
INTM-SHU.238.1
Toy Design and Prototyping
Art,Product Design
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Sichuan Opera Face

An automata toy of Sichuan Opera Face Show

Yingzi Qu

https://youtu.be/oeSJO9Ms_Cs

Description

It is an amateurish Sichuan Opera Face Show. The performer is a beginner of this traditional Chinese acrobatics, so he can only switch four faces (two without pause). However, he really hopes that more people can learn about and appreciate this interesting and distinctive culture.

IMA/IMB Shanghai
INTM-SHU.238.1
Toy Design and Prototyping
Play/Games
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The Puppet, The Police, The Troll

A family game designed to make you talk at least twice more words to your family than you used to.

Jamie Wang

https://youtu.be/Nntt_CezjDo

Description

The Puppet, the police, the troll is a social board game designed for my family. It requires 3 or more people to participate in the game. For my family, we have four people in total. There will be one puppet, one police and two trolls in the game. The police will secretly guide the puppet to the destination whereas the trolls will try to mess up the plan. Details for rules can be read in the poster and the demonstration video.

IMA/IMB Shanghai
INTM-SHU.238.1
Toy Design and Prototyping
Play/Games
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iSketch

A drawing pad that enables user to draw in a special way!

Emily Qiu

https://youtu.be/C1eXYdK5s4c

Description

Painting is a popular branch of art which has thousands of years history. Given its popularity and history, painting is also one of the most mature forms of art that embraces many different patterns of expressions with different drawing tools. Hands and drawing tablets are two common ways of drawing nowadays but have you ever thought about drawing with your laptop? This project intends to enable people to realize this dream. Based on Javascript and P5, iSketch is a web page where users can freely display their drawing creativity. By combining several basic P5 functions such as line, color and erase, iSketch can enable users to realize the effect of traditional hand painting. While via using functions like slider, shapes and animation, iSketch can give users much more new drawing experience such as producing their ideal color or drawing with changing shapes. Painting is an old form of art while coding is a new pattern of expression. By merging these two art elements, this project is aimed not only to extend the portfolio of painting, but also act as a bridge between connecting the old and the new.

IMA/IMB Shanghai
INTM-SHU.135.1
Creative Coding Lab
Play/Games
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Catch the Stars

Catch the stars here and go through a beautiful archive for The Little Prince's memory.

Jannie Zhou

https://youtu.be/W8-ARxeKdvI

Description

This is an immersive project that provides a meditating artistic experience using a machine learning model PoseNet. On this website, users' poses will be detected and shown on the screen in an abstract way, with the setting of a night sky. There are twikling stars on the top of the page, and the users could “catch” them. When users touch a particular star, he/she will be presented with a story from the book The Little Prince. There are six stars altogether, in each of them is one chapter from The Little Prince. There would be text on the page, along with a voice narrative and the backgroud music. The project aims to navigate people through a dreamy journey.

IMA/IMB Shanghai
INTM-SHU.134.1
Movement Practices and Computing
Art,Narrative/Storytelling
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Coffee and Code

Visualization of some fun facts on programmers and their preference on coffee in Lebanon

Yujia Liu

https://youtu.be/00fKlEIyeyE

Description

This project is a visualization of a dataset reflecting 100 Lebanese programmers' preference on when, what kind of and how many cups of coffee they have in a day.

IMA/IMB Shanghai
INTM-SHU.204.1
Critical Data & Visualization
Culture,Art