The entanglement of religion, ritual, consumerism and hair.

http://www.worayalab.com/blog/fall-2016/art-strategies/

Description

The Great Tree of Sacrifice is a conceptual and participatory art installation that tries to narrate the bitter truth behind the hair industry. Wigs and hair extensions have recently become increasingly popular. The parties involved are oblivious to the reality about where and under what circumstances the hair is collected and manufactured. Impoverished women in southeast Asian countries, under religious beliefs, get their heads shaved and sacrifice their hair under a false sense of blessing. However, they are unaware that the same hair is used to earn millions of dollars each year.

The installation is designed in the form of a Hindu/Buddhist temple money donation box, and requests the participants to donate a strand of hair to the box. Henceforth, a fan circulates air in the box and renders the donated hair futile for any use.

The entire installation is built using trash.

Classes

Art Strategies

NomNom: The Video Machine allows you to play videos as music samples, and sync them like a DJ.

https://github.com/dodiku/the_video_machine_v2

Description

Powered by an Arduino, NomNom: The Video Machine controls the playback of videos presented on a web browser.

By pressing a button on the controller, the correlated video is being played on the screen and heard through the speakers.

The videos are being played in sync with one another.

Only the videos that are being played, are being heard.

The physical controller was designed and build by Mint Woraya Boonyapanachoti & Dodi Dror Ayalon.

All code was written by Mint Woraya Boonyapanachoti & Dodi Dror Ayalon.

Classes

Introduction to Physical Computing ITPG-GT.2301.002, Introduction to Computational Media ITPG-GT.2233.005