Category: IMA/IMB Shanghai

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The Inside World of a Smoker

This is a tiny story originated from an ordinary life, unfolding as a stream of consciousness

Yuntong Dai

https://s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com/ima.nyu.edu/commlab/moon/hazel-dai/index.html

Description

This is a documentary project from the communications lab. It is very mini, and the users can explore the webpage with easy interactions. The main concept is to know about a smoker's life-story, anxiety, and childhood. The mini-documentary is shot with iPhone 11 pro, and the style is diverse but uniformed meanwhile. You can see some elements from the old-fashioned silent movie and even some messy hand-writings! However, the main point here is not trying to tell a wholesome story. Instead, the story is unfolded as a stream of consciousness. Just imagine you've entered the smoker's brain, and explore a tiny part of his complicated yet typical life. Moreover, the concept of “mood” is there, all the way through the whole project. The interactive way may be a bit simple, but please enjoy the videos as well!

IMA/IMB Shanghai
Communications Lab
Narrative/Storytelling
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Particle God

By using kinect, you can use your magic to play with the particle system.

Joseph Yang

https://vimeo.com/418787796

Description

Since we've learned various particle systems and many different particle movements throughout the whole semester, I decided to make a project that can let the user experience different particle effects at the same time. I use Kinect to detect the user's hand and there are some interactions with the particle system based on the hand state of the user. For example, if the user closes his or her hands, the particles would start to follow the position of the hands. Anyway, it's a really fun project to play with.

IMA/IMB Shanghai
Nature of Code
Art
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ATOM Imagination

A visual simulation of atom structure with music

Haoquan Wang

https://s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com/ima.nyu.edu/noc/Kenneth/ATOM/index.html

Description

This project is inspired by the ATOM text editor's icon. By using gravitational force in p5.js, I create an atom structure layer by layer, core to electron, electron to the general sphere of an atom. By adding clicking interaction, audience can build up an atom structure layer by layer.

IMA/IMB Shanghai
INTM-SHU.254.1
Nature of Code
Performance,Art
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Lost in Dimension

A p5.js visual project utilizing WEBGL

Haoquan Wang

https://youtu.be/T9uPobUEpP8

Description

This is a visual project inspired by teamLab light show and movie Interstellar. Light, in my mind, always represents hope and life. In this special time, people cannot go out to see that fantastic art show. Some of the people even feel desperate and sad in quarantine life. Hence, I wish to use p5.js to bring this amazing light performance nto the digital world, bring hope and happiness to my audience. This project is supposed to be available in multiple media, like VR/AR, mobile devices, and PC. Currently, I mostly work on the laptop. Inspired by Interstellar, I combine light performance with 3d spaces, allowing users to explore 3d space and travel around in the multi-dimensional digital world. Besides light, I also add 3d spheres and 2d rotating triangle into space. By moving around, it will be interesting to feel the encounter of 2d graphs, 3d graphs, and space.

IMA/IMB Shanghai
INTM-SHU.254.1
Nature of Code
Performance,Art
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Water Forms

It displays several forms of the water in a sketch.

Joseph Yang

https://vimeo.com/418785519

Description

I used P5 to imitate different forms of water, like snow(snowflakes), rain, river, ice. And the user could change the temperature of the system and the water form would change based on that temperature. It's more likely to be an educative project to tell some little children the changes of the water forms in nature rather than a project that you can just interact with the water.

IMA/IMB Shanghai
INTM-SHU.254.1
Nature of Code
Art
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Chef to Chef

Experiment with the movement in relation to a screen, while engaging with the familiar scene of cooking!

Emily Wright, Echo Chi

https://vimeo.com/419782650

Description

We want the experience to have fun experience related to cooking, with added movement (the movements of cooking aren’t very exciting at times). The added movement will be the user having to reach to grab utensils necessary for the recipe. PoseNet will be used so the user can see themselves making the movement.

IMA/IMB Shanghai
INTM-SHU.134.1
Movement Practices and Computing
Accessible
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台北夢Taipei Dreams

Erase for new interpretation, 台北夢Taipei Dreams is an interactive website that contains more than 50 erased stories of people who have come to Taipei, the capital of Taiwan.

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https://vimeo.com/418902703

Description

Entering, assimilating, and then reinterpreting, the experience of accommodating to a new city is conceptually aligned with both the technical and poetic process of erasure poetry—a text being encountered, read, and eventually “erased” in forming new interpretations of an existing narrative. Taipei is like no others, but as one index city seems to entail a common metropolitan theme built up with the burdens of people’s ambitions and aspirations on a scale of different visibilities. These stories of “dreams” come from mostly university students/graduates around my age who have moved to Taipei for work or study. With a lot of comparings and imitations in the highly competitive environment, it seems like many are subconsciously living out the stereotypes of what they expected people in Taipei would be like. Perhaps, the biggest stereotype is that Taipei is an absolute place of dream-come-true as they first entered in their own processes of wayfinding, where “dreams” are in fact very much overlapped. The diverse yet homogenized complexity of these stories have to deal with the dynamic between collectivism and individualism. Each story is of one unique person, but comes together as one.

Taking the form of erasure poetry as part of the social practice of this project, I hope to explore the dynamic from a personal perspective. By translating and erasing others’ stories whose original texts were in Traditional Chinese, I have entered a virtual space of the city of embedded dreams, and finding my very own reinterpreted from others’ real life endeavors. The website not only provides a freely explorative experience, but a collection of city experiences, which does not have the magic to achieve one’s dreams, but through interactive engagements invites people to reflect on their own encounters. Through 台北夢, we could be closer to our dreams.

IMA/IMB Shanghai
INTM-SHU.401.1
Capstone Studio (Shanghai)
Culture,Narrative/Storytelling
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Art on a Chair

It's an artistic project that draws your day on your spinning chair.

Joseph Yang

https://vimeo.com/418764392

Description

I attached the IMU to the spinning chair in my room and wrote a program that can draw something based on the spinning of the chair. If I started to run the sketch at the beginning of the day, the final output would be a beautiful art piece. This project can reflect all the subtle motions on your chair. And it would tell you that your daily life is also a piece of art.

IMA/IMB Shanghai
INTM-SHU.134.1
Movement Practices and Computing
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TURS

The Ultraviolet Respiration System

Zehua Wang

https://youtu.be/Z9AGKCLCHhQ

Description

The Ultraviolet Respiration System (TURS) is a human body extension that receives, processes, and reacts to ultraviolet light radiation. TURS extends our perception of the unseen light by encoding technology into the body. It explores posthumanism with a practical implementation that reimagines the integration of machines into the functions of the flesh.

TURS is designed as a soft robotic system that includes a receiver attached at the user's back and an actuator attached at the arm. The receiver constantly collects the UV intensity, sends the data to the cloud for data processing, and stores the data in the database. The actuator, a soft robotic arm, subscribes to the database and reacts to the data. The soft robotic arm can be inflated and deflated, creating an effect of a breathing skin. The change of the respire rate is a representation of the change of the ultraviolet intensity and the ultraviolet dose.

IMA/IMB Shanghai
INTM-SHU.138.1
Extended Perception
Art,Wearables
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The Normalization Program

a parafictional business website that examines the misperceptions and the imposed social normalcy of the LGBTQ community

Zehua Wang

https://the-normalization-program.now.sh/index.html

Description

The Normalization Program is a business website that examines the misperceptions of the LGBTQ community and the social normalcy imposed on them.

The project collects found news, social media posts, and personal experiences and translates these narratives into supportive materials on the business website. In the first glimpse of the website, it gives an impression of a genuine business. The appearance of the website with the slogans, the up-to-date technology, the research, the profile of the professional team members, as well as the cooperation with real international organizations, all carries the legitimacy of the business.

However, upon further examination of the website and investigation of the subtle information, the audience might start making associations with misperceptions they’ve experienced or witnessed. With more absurdity introduced along with the experience, the project pushes the audience to question the authenticity of the website and reflect on how the LGBTQ community is suffering from misperception and struggling fitting into the social normalcy as a minority group.

IMA/IMB Shanghai
INTM-SHU.217.1
Make Believe
Art,Social Good/Activism
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