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IN KU
This year of my master's degree has allowed me to experiment with more output directions compared to my undergraduate studies, and to study the project in a more in-depth and systematic way.
Term 1 Project1
Sound
We hear all sorts of sounds in our daily lives, some make you feel happy, some make you feel sad, but there are always sounds that will stick with us and we will want to record them. But how to record the sounds we hear in a visual form and to be able to immediately recall them when we look back at them later is the direction I want to take. It is very difficult to record the sounds of everyday life because they do not sound connected or regular, so I wanted to develop a set of writing rules that could be used to visually record these sounds by discovering the characteristics of the different sounds and the connections between them or the different sensations that each sound brings to people as an entry point to the writing system. The target audience of this writing system is to visually record the sounds of life or to allow people who cannot hear sounds to feel them through visualisation.
Term1 Project 2
Wishing Points in Kingston
One of the things that struck me most when I finished walking around Kingston was the legend that the locals would make a wish in front of the Coronation Stone. So I started this project around the point of 'making a wish'.
The map consists of all the places in Kingston where you can make a wish, and each wishing point is given a different type of wish, from work, to marriage, to study, for example at the Coronation Stone, where all wishes for power and status can be granted. People need to go to the corresponding wishing point and make a wish in relation to it, then people's wishes will be granted (the description of each wishing point can be found in the brochure).
Each wishing point has a unique wishing symbol, and each wishing symbol contains a visual feature unique to each wishing point, which allows people to find the corresponding wishing point by using each wishing symbol and according to the characteristics of each wishing point.
To increase the interactivity of the map, I have added an AR effect. When you scan the map, all the wishing points will be displayed differently on your phone, so that you can distinguish them from other locations on the map and find all the wishing places easily.
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Term 2
Convert
After understanding and researching the text, I chose to carry out a visual presentation in which the state of the image changes as it is converted over and over again.
The audio is analysed and visualised and converted into an image, which is then combined with the content of the text, and the resulting image is presented in the form of a moving video. This way the audience can visually see how their own voices change and how the voices of different viewers change through the moving video.
The text is first converted into audio, then audio into image, and finally image into moving video, with the state of the image changing during the process.
In addition to the moving video, I also experimented with combining the images formed by the different audience voices into a poster design. Firstly, I converted the audio into a circular image, the image formed by different sounds will be different, and there will be different situations when different sounds are combined together, such as different audio stacked together very neatly, different audio stacked together messily, different audio volume levels, etc. I presented these situations through different combinations and made these different combinations designed as a poster.
Term 3
Time Traces in the London Underground
The completion of the London Underground was more than one hundred years ago, if you carefully explore the space of the London Underground, you will find that compared to the London Underground recorded in the data more than one hundred years ago, time has left different kinds of traces in the present London Underground due to human or non-human roles, for example, mottling on the walls, painted banners on the platforms, and faded seats, and so on. Therefore, traces represent the spatial language of the London Underground, which has been superimposed and changed over time, constantly witnessing various changes and telling the story of history.
Through the research, I learnt that the visual design of the London Underground in 1915 presented the story and background of the London Underground at that time, but after more than one hundred years of changes, many different stories have happened in the London Underground space and left various traces, how to express and present the story behind the traces left by time through visual language, how to use visual language to combine the information in the Underground station and the traces of time, reflecting the same story at different times. How to use visual language to connect the information in the station and the traces of time, and how to reflect the change of visual language in the same space at different times, is what I want to research and explore through this project.
