My experience at the student workshop, MOV

Last Sunday, I went to Vancouver Maritime Museum to setup a student workshop as part of the Unfold FalseCreek project. Although it was the same weekend as Vancouver Sun Run, and not many people showed up, it was a good experience for me being out there and interact with the public.

At the end of the day, only one family came up to me. A little girl about 11 years old with her auntie; turned out they came from the same town as me ( Maple Ridge) so we had some conversations going while I am teaching how to make origami Kaleidoscope.

I wanted to take a picture with the family, but little girl was shy so I end up not doing that.

From the experience, I realized that it’s not just about teaching Origami Kaleidoscope, and explore other ways to show the phenomenon of the architect, but it is also about small action such as this one can potentially become a great tool to be socially engaging. before, I always thought “socially engaging” means focus on social medium such as Facebook or Twitter or be more technical; but this experience has really opened my eyes and was surprise that people actually DO get interested in the traditional form such as Origami, and gave me new ideas on a potential project I would like to work on in Future.

Yes, I was bummed out that I didn’t get as much response as I would like, but that just made me realized that I need to improve myself on the communication skill as an artist. At least, one family came up, and that is a certainty for me as a start.

 

 

UNFOLD FALSE CREEK- INTERACTION WITH YALE TOWN. PART II

I guess my project is somewhat incomplete. I chose to do it around six in the evening because I figured this is the time that people are off work, relaxed, and engaged in different sort of activities on the Seawall.

I knew that by setting up a table in the middle of the sidewalk and  the act of non-stop folding would get people’s attention, but of course like I expected no one would stop and join me.

Although that didn’t work out like I wanted to be, It was interesting to observe people this way. I felt that Vancouver people are generally polite, and people that live in Yaletown have their own identity…they seem to have a healthy lifestyle and seems like a lot of people own a dog!?….

After half an hour of sitting in the cold, couple people finally came up and talked to me. They were mostly Asians; and being an Asian girl, a man  just assumed that I can speak the same language as him; of course as soon as he found out this is for school, he just walked away ( perhaps next time I should tell the audience that I am a fortune teller )

 People reacted differently from my observation. Most people look at you and walk away; there are people that talk to me in their language because of my race ; there are people that are  strongly opinionated eventhough they knew it was a school project; and they are people that can relate to the project and see their past experiences through the reflection of Origami Kaleidoscope.

So I guess overall I got what I expected from the public, but it’s incomplete because I know that location and time would have change the outcome.

ORIGAMI KALEIDOSCOPE

UNFOLD FALSE CREEK- INTERACTION WITH YALE TOWN

UNFOLD FALSE CREEK

The idea behind UNFOLD FALSE CREEK is to make Vancouver Seawall and Dubai Marina indistinguishable through the act of unfolding Origami Kaleidoscope. Each surface consist of images of buildings from both locations. Hopefully through playing with a hands-on object would get people’s interest on the astonishing movement of architects.

Test-tube Burger Meat!? Hmm…

Dutch scientists create test-tube burger

By:JohnThomas

Maastricht - Dutch scientists have announced that the world’s first test-tube burger will be ready in a few months time. They say the laboratory grown burger will look, feel and possibly taste like a regular quarter-pounder.

MSNBC reports Maastricht University professor Mark Post, creator of the test-tube burger, said in Vancouver, Canada, at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science that the burger will be unveiled in October. The Sun reports that celebrity Chef Heston Blumenthal, 45, holder of three Michelin stars, has been chosen to cook the burger for a mystery guest in October. According to New York Daily News, the ultimate aim of the project is to mass produce the meat and cut back on cattle slaughtering and the global warming effect of livestock farming.

U.N. figures, according to MSNBC, shows animal farming takes up to 30 percent of the Earth’s land resources, and the demand for meat is expected to double in the next four decades. Post said: “You can easily calculate that we need alternatives. If you don’t do anything meat will become a luxury food and be very, very expensive.”

According to Post, his new “ethical meat” is more environmentally friendly and will reduce the suffering of animals raised to satisfied humanity’s craving for flesh. But even now, some are wondering whether lovers of natural food will fancy the idea of eating meat grown in the laboratory.

Another problem with the new meat is that it is extremely expensive. New York Daily News reports the prototype burger Post is planning to serve in October cost $330,000 to produce. But he hopes it will be possible in the future to mass produce cheaper burger that everyone can afford.

Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/319920#ixzz1mwpeoyKJ

Welcome to Pine Point

An interactive online novel done by the creative team at Adbusters Magazine, based on the story entitled I Live Here, a collection of stories about some of the world’s most troubled regions.

Link to the project

 

Interaction with sound through media platform

Imagine yourself alone, close your eyes and pay attention to what’s around you. What do you hear? Is it appealing? Or is it disturbing?

I would like to use our hearing to create an interaction sound project to explore humans’ emotion.

For my project I’ve posted up soundtracks of sounds I recorded daily or sound sources from internet on WordPress/Facebook Group and ask the participants to listen through earphones and response their feeling in simple words.

https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=150130615022515&v=wall

http://ylin123.wordpress.com/

Final Presentation

Urban Intervention Project

My idea for Urban Intervention is playing with the text instead of an image.

” My world is black and white; I equalize what I see,”

what I meant by ” Black and White” is the colour of black plus white equals to the neutral grey which to me this is the colour of safety zone.

As for “I Equalize What I see”,  that is Vancouver as a multicultural city; because I am so used to seeing different races of people in Vancouver that I think everyone is equal, and I know how it feels to be insulted with racial comments or behaviors.

The reason I decided to put the sign in Emily Carr University is because there are people from around the world studying in this school and everyone here are very friendly and open-minded, so in a way I want my sign to interact with whoever passed by showing that ” I am part of this community, and I respect everyone that’s around me.”

Medium: Vinyl Print