Jana Pocuchova, Luize Rieksta, Amy Kang
Description
“Climate Glitch” displays three series of glitched photos, in which each series depicts different natural environments—in Latvia, Slovakia, and South Korea—that are being destroyed by human society.
Each photo for the different locations is glitched twice using a sound software Audacity. The first glitch is done through an effect called “delay” and the second through “reverse”. “Delay” refers to how people delay taking action to preserve the environment and “reverse” signifies people’s attempt to reverse back the harm they have done to it. The first glitch of “delay” inevitably damages/distorts the environment, and the second glitch, or the attempt to “reverse” it, makes it worse. With this depiction of the glitched photos, we hope to alarm the audience about the destruction that humans bring to nature, often regardless of whether it is intended to harm or help the environment, if done perfunctorily.
We represented climate change-related topics from our home environments: deforestation in Slovakia, temperature rise in Latvia and pollution from tourism in Korea. However, our glitch algorithm is not just applicable to one image. The fact it can be repeated on any image is an extension of the algorithm itself, which connects to the point that climate change is a topic concerning everyone.
Amy Kang
Description
“Interactive Turntable” is an emulation of a vinyl record player (turntable) on Processing. The user can use the turntable just as they would use it in real life, which is by placing the tonearm on the LP record. The tonearm moves closer to the center of the record as the playing continues. The user can change the start time of the music by moving the tonearm to different parts of the LP record and can stop the music by removing the tonearm from it. The turntable also contains a volume slider that can be used to adjust the sound volume.
Two soundtracks, namely “Moon River” sung by Audrey Hepburn and “Symphony No.5” composed by Beethoven, are available. Either song can be chosen by clicking on the according buttons.
Logaine Elshafie, Amy Kang
Description
“[A]PART” is an aural documentation of our (Amy's and Logaine's) two different lives during the COVID-19 Pandemic, which made us return back home to Korea and Egypt in the middle of the Spring 2020 semester at New York University Abu Dhabi. Being approximately 8,656 km and 7 hours away from each other, we hoped to illustrate how different our day-to-day lives are, even in terms of what we hear, which many of us don’t usually think about. However, we also wanted to emphasize that despite being physically apart from each other, we are still a part of the NYU Abu Dhabi community and can keep in contact via the internet. The user can listen to the recorded sounds by hovering over each photo while scrolling down the one-page website.