1.My first “clock” is consist of three different sandglass. The left one in the picture presents seconds, the sand in the sandglass will drop once every seconds. And it will not drop like regular sandglass but fly from bottom to top as if time is going back. The middle one will be a regular sandglass presenting minutes. The sand in it will drop when a minute passed. The right one presents the hour, and like the left one, the sand will fly from bottom to top. The sand flies when an hour is passed.

2. My second “clock” looks like a rainbow, and it will show the passing of time by changing its color at different rate. The thinnest section presents the seconds, and the inner section presents hours. While time passing, the color of each section will change from red to violet and go back to red. For instance, when the color of thinnest section goes back to red from violet, it means one second has passed; when the color of innermost section goes back to red, it means an hour has gone.

3.The third “clock” represents time by three running animals. The top one is a rabbit who runs through the track every second, the middle one is a penguin who jumps forward once per minutes, and the bottom is a turtle who move once an hour. When they finish the track, they will all go back to staring point which is the left side of the track and start over.

1. The first idea I have is frog eating flies. Each flies the frog eats represent one hour.
2. The second idea I have is flower growing/blooming. The growing of each petal of the flower represents one hour and after 12 hours the first flower would disappear and the second flower would appear. Background color changes as the time passes by to represent day time and night time.
3. The third idea I have is the computer screen shows different numbers in 24 different languages to represent time. Background color changes as the time passes by to represent day time and night time.

Is fashion modern? When it comes to fashion, people often think of its long history and how much it has impacted people’s lives since the very beginning. Fashion is something that has existed for a very long time, people don’t really relate fashion with modern. However, a team called Accurat studio decides to take a step forward and embed fashion with technology. In Oct of 2017, their team did an exhibition at MOMA, exploring the present, past and sometimes the future — with 111 items that have had strong impact in the 20th, 21st centuries. They dug into the stories behind each item and built a landscape that shows the overview of the structure of the show as well as a visual access to the stories behind it. One of the example was that the Dashiki was actually not a traditional west Africa garment like most people thought, instead it was a mass-produced modern garment emerged in New York City in the 60’s.

One of the sections that caught my attention was the section that showed different pieces of clothing item that can fit different body types. It visualized different body shapes in different scenarios, showing that our bodies were not always so perfect, and no matter what our bodies sizes or shapes were, we should feel confident and beautiful. In the exhibition, they also took pictures of tattoo and remapped them onto a model’s body. The tattoo can also follow the curve of the body, and it redefined what tattoo meant to people and showed how arts could interfere with technology and created a new form of it.

links:

https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1638

https://www.accurat.it/works/moma/

 

 

1. Time is measured through how much water/coffee/tea a person consumes. The code will display cups or glasses filling up and emptying throughout a day and the empty glasses will pile up at the side of the screen. What the person drinks is also reflected on the time of day(ex. coffee in the morning). For each second, you may see the cups filling up or emptying. For each minute, you can see the cup moving towards the left side of the screen for the empty cups, and for each hour, a new drink is introduced.
2. The clock is represented by the number of people entering and existing a bus/subway car. The visualization would also include details to represent certain types of riders(ex. students) and there would be an increased amount of people during rush hours. For each second, you see the people inside the train making small movements, for each minute, the train “stops” as people enter and exit the cart, and for each hour, you see new details on the riders, specific to the hour that those people would be on the train(ex. at the morning, you would see people going to work/school).
3. Time is felt through the state of a person’s bed and/or desk. This uses a basic routine of a person, and as the day progresses, we watch a person sleeping in bed, on the computer on their desk, perhaps having lunch, do other tasks, etc. For each second, you would see the person doing small movements, such as the z’s moving if they were asleep or them tapping on their computer. For each minute, you would see the person making larger movements, such as moving around, leaving the room, etc. For each hour, the person moves onto another task.

1. Falling blocks

• For each time the time changes, a new number will fall down to replace the old number, and the old one will fall down as blocks.

2. Spinning wheel

• The mouse is like a colorful wheel, which is formed by randomly color-changing and position-changing lines. Whenever the mouse moves to the center, the wheel will become larger and the time will be displayed as thinker black lines.

 

3. Plant

• The worm at the bottom will take 60 seconds to reach the second layer. And for each minutes, there will be a new leaf. When there are 60 leaves in the second layer, the flower will grow one petal. The flower at the left side represents daytime (a.m.), and the one at the right represents nighttime(p.m.).

1. Use percentage of mobile phone to represent time, e.g. 50% represents noon, 75% represents 6pm, 0% represents midnight
2. Three balls bouncing and colliding with each other, one represents wind, one represents temperature, one represents chance of rain, color varies with the value. they are inactive at night and active during the day
3. Use volume level to represents time, volume will be shown on screen as waves
4. Footstep count to represent time
5. calories intakes

This project is called BIRD SPOTTER’S GUIDE TO AVIAN TITLED LITERATURE. 30 books are used for this design, and they are all hung as a flock in the central stairwell of the UTS Library. This installation intends to inspire the students, academics, and visitors to view the library as a space for play and discovery. The Bird in the title is representing the novel To Kill A Mocking Bird. The artist makes the simple metaphor, making the books look like birds. Then they extended the idea that of the flock is a body of knowledge.

http://nathaliemiebach.com/

Bird Calls, July 15, 11:02 am – 11:15am
Watercolor and Bristol paper,
14”x17”, 2015

Nathalie Miebach created the project in 2015.She used various mark making systems to capture the sounds. So in this project, the data is the sound that she heard around her. And she used paper or some sort of soft material and cut them into different shapes. Then she used these materials to convey the sound that she heard based on her own imagination and thoughts.

The result is this very new body in which collages are used as sound maps to track the direction and quality of sounds found in different environments.

In Kate Sweetapple’s “Incidental Data,” she created an exhibit featuring multiple artists’ innovative ways of displaying data. With the huge wave of information we now have the ability to display, she questioned why everything had to be presented in such uniform, algorithmic ways. The exhibit features data presented without any graphs and charts, and instead through the use of creative or everyday objects. Some of the objects in the work are from trees, glue, and lipstick, to name a few.

Through this different medium, we can see data represented in a more exciting way. I think this fun display can transform data from something that was once boring into an exciting world of possibilities for further exploration. Also, since this data is being displayed in a less uniform way, it seems that you can avoid the mistake of oversimplifying results that don’t necessarily fit in one box.

https://cargocollective.com/katesweetapple/Incidental-Data

The artist I chose for this research post was Sarah Groff and this is the link to her website http://www.sarahgp.com/. Sarah had some amazing data art once coming across her page and there was one particular work of hers that I found to be unique and different which was called called Dot. This the link the exact project of this work http://www.sarahgp.com/projects/dot.html.

 

 

Although this is just a “dot” reason for the work is super interesting. Sarah was inspired by John Cage’s work I Ching. She expressed that she wanted to give the dot a chance soundscape and each of the colors matched with the genre accordly the size, the length of the book and much more. It creares emotion with the size of the dot and the color of both the background and the dot it self. When looking at her code I saw she used stuff like “function change book()” and make sound(); she created her own on how to tell the program what to do to get the exact effect she wanted. I found this really cool how this changes depending on the sound and evironment that the dot is in to give a different effect.