https://youtu.be/Uxb-mlV6b_0

Description

My original idea was a bit different from this final version of the story. Earlier before I decided what to make, I was on a bus. An elderly first got on the bus not wearing a mask. Suddenly the driver halted and switched off the car. Other passengers, together with the driver, loudly scolded him of getting abroad like this and jeopardizing everyone else’s health. Two stops later a big, young man got up, wearing his mask on his jaw, eating an omelet as breakfast, and never got his mask back on after he sat down. Nobody said a thing. So, at first, I wanted to make a project that shows how people act in a post-pandemic period, in which part of them thinks we’ve already past the panicking, while the other part is still on guard against others from the epidemic perspective. But over time, I added more personal experience into it and made it more of a diary and less of a real documentary.

IMA/IMB Shanghai

Communications Lab

Narrative/Storytelling

https://s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com/ima.nyu.edu/commlab/moon/kyrie-sheng-story/index.html

Description

I adapt the Liu Jian work into a kind of role play. Readers will first go through some overview scenes and a poem written by Leo Tolstyo, getting a sense of the social background where this story takes place (around 2000 in a south-eastern small city in China). Then readers will go to a choice page, where they can choose any one of the three main characters to begin. Upon choosing, they will only be able to see what is happening around the character they choose and see what the character can see. After they finish the plot with one character, they can go on to choose see another character or directly jump to the ending part. After they have chosen all the three characters to read, they will get a sense of the truth. The ending part is some scenes indicating how the story ends. And some texts from the Bible is quoted, while the lyrics of the song “Lullaby” sung by “The Cure” is shown upon the pictures.

By do such a role play style project, I hope readers can not only learn about how the complete story is but can taste and feel the tough situation each character is faced with and try to understand what they really think when they make decisions and moves.

IMA/IMB Shanghai

Communications Lab

Narrative/Storytelling

http://imanas.shanghai.nyu.edu/~qp274/week14/doc/

Description

This short documentary looks into the everyday experience of Family Mart staff. It reveals some tricks and techniques that you might not know about as a customer. Working in the convenient store is not always butterflies and sunshine.

The video on the left serves as a content index, at certain point a button will appear to guide the user to a corresponding clip. Videos on the right each introduces one Family Mart technique. In the last video, staff share their feelings and opinions about the industry.

IMA/IMB Shanghai

Communications Lab

Narrative/Storytelling

http://imanas.shanghai.nyu.edu/~xd652/final-project/index.html

Description

In China, the college entrance examination is very important, and this exam has been controversial all the time because on one hand it is so cruel but on the other hand there is no other better way to replace it, yet. My personal experience of the last several months before the exam was stressful, so I wonder other students’ feelings about their life in senior three. Also, during this special time, their experience is unique.

IMA/IMB Shanghai

Communications Lab

Narrative/Storytelling

http://imanas.shanghai.nyu.edu/~yw4553/audioproject/

Description

.I built a place where visitors can relax and escape from the reality for a while, and also I want to enrich the already-exist art forms by giving them sounds. .This scene consists of mountains, valleys, houses, and rivers, representing ancient Chinese philosophy of “归隐”[hermitage]. Our ancestors suffered from the din and banality of officialdom, just like nowadays we are enduring urban noises. And we all want to escape to a far-away place, where there is no internet and no construction going on. This webpage enables visitors to immerse into this metaphoric space, being both a “visitor” and a “detective” to explore what might be going on in this painting.

IMA/IMB Shanghai

Communications Lab

Culture,Sound

https://imanas.shanghai.nyu.edu/~yz6209/week13/interactive%20documentary/

Description

This project documents the everyday life of a grandmother in China, who lives with and takes care of the whole family in her 70s. Shooted from the perspective of a grandson, the documentary demonstrates Grandma's life as dope and dull at the same time. Aimed at raising the awareness of elderly people in China, some reflections are made in this documentary through voiceover. When watching the documentary, the audience will interact with the webpage. They can explore Grandma's life through the timeline or make decisions by clicking specific buttons on the webpage.

IMA/IMB Shanghai

Communications Lab

Narrative/Storytelling

http://imanas.shanghai.nyu.edu/~yz6209/week7/interactive%20story/

Description

This project demonstrates an interactive story that is inspired by the movie “The Truman Show” (1998). In the film, Truman eventually makes it out of Seahaven Island; it won’t necessarily be the case in the interactive story. The audience will follow Truman's POV and explore different scenes in the story by interacting with objects on the webpage. They can even change the story by clicking buttons with different options.

IMA/IMB Shanghai

Communications Lab

Narrative/Storytelling

http://imanas.shanghai.nyu.edu/~qp274/comic/

Description

This interactive comic allows users to adjust the madness of the story as the story goes. Since the “madness” of each panel is adjustable, it provides readers with a total of 16 different storylines with 4 major themes. It plays with the grammar of comics by altering the captions, speech bubbles and image details.

Delirious Steamed Hams is a parody inspired by parodies. It's a product of mixing together stuff that I love. It is weird and sketchy, but I had fun making and memeing. Hope you find it funny too.

To enter the next panel, click the red arrow. Upon viewing each panel, the user has a chance to drag the slider and then the panel will be refreshed corresponding to the “madness meter”.

IMA/IMB Shanghai

Communications Lab

Narrative/Storytelling

https://youtu.be/cBOja-sFcrs

Description

Fragrant Discourse is an interactive installation that proposes an alternate method of experiencing data analyses; it presents a possible future where an amplification of senses and perception related to big data analyses and the way that communication networks enable a planetary consciousness. Through tools such as node-red and the Arduino Yun, Fragrant Discourse presents a method in which users can build new interpretive languages of public forum sentiment through visual and olfactory senses.

User speech input is used to search Twitter for tweets regarding the term or phrase topic. Inside node-red, I am able to analyze the Twitter information and display the sentiment and emotion analysis via LEDs and scent diffusers.

IMA/IMB Shanghai

Extended Perception

Art

https://youtu.be/ON8XWjl3fRw

Description

Memory Trading in the Grey Area of Law is a parafictional documentary that discusses the illegal memory-trading black markets in the imaginary city, Zora, which is described in Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino. By discussing the issues of manufacturing, selling, purchasing, and taking other's memories as if they truly existed, the project leaves space for the audience to respond to the absurdity of the problems the documentary discusses, and further critically inquire about the real black-market trading and the illegal drug use in real life.

The documentary uses found footage of other non-fictional videos, such as documentaries, news, and interviews, as well as the voiceover written by the artist. By publishing the documentary in a simulated official BBC Documentary YouTube channel, Memory Trading in the Grey Area of Law brings the audience into this parafictional viewing experience.

IMA/IMB Shanghai

Make Believe

Art,Social Good/Activism