#3D Effects
#Video Editing
#Interactive Design
#Hardware Prototyping
Visualization of the balancing natural order
Time: May 2020 - Aug 2020
Role: Personal Passion Interactive Design
Tools: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects, Arduino
Chaos, presenting confusion or the state of inherent unpredictability; while order links to rules or arrangement which they plays an obvious contradictory role. Inspired by the research through the world history, especially the pandemic history, I am surprised to see chaos and order continuously balancing each other harmonically in all areas of study from ancient myths to modern physics.
From Chaos and Order by Friedrich Cramer, the contradicting relationship passes from biological ideas to the thinking of lives and fate which demonstrated how far such contradicting ideas covers and connects. Though we still remain unknown and undiscovered to our unlimited world, we’re now able to express such contradiction and judge it scientifically.
Despite there are so many research done on this concept, I decided to express the balancing of concepts for chaos and order in an artistic and abstract way so that it leads people to freely imagining all the possible fields that fits which leaded me to create my interactive artwork eventually. By allowing the audience to act in a omnipotent position, the idea of “invisible power” we still unfamiliar that fluctuates the world delivers and it attempts the audiences to have a very different or unique individual reflection based on their own experiences.
Constellation, Religion and Arts
The idea of constellation and chaos theory is used as tunnel design in this project by attaching scattering and continue moving forward tunnel. It aims for illustrating the space that people's mind could fall in the free explore.
Mythology and Butterfly Effect
The Lighting was used for showing the power as it connects with Greek Mythology that the God father Zeus uses power of lighting to demonstrate is immortability. Also, the Butterfly Effect is also obvious for showing a small power of interference could lead the world to change totally.
History, War and Revolutions
The idea of time was applied also as the tunnel as we could see it as the river of History for our world and both War and Revolutions were the incidents or impact that was shown by the lighting. Just as we know, history always repeat itself which lead me to the design.
Birth, Death and Medication
This idea emerges as I discovered that the Pandemics history repeats with the Medicine continue to develop. Just like COVID-19, it's infections continues to balance between high and low. Also, the contradicting idea of Birth and Death interests me as earth use it to balance the resource shortage during history.
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Major display screen. The butterfly traveling with tunnel is projected on this wall only.
Three projectors are connected with one computer for remote control.
The supply two screens for showing the light travelling in the space. The linkage will be applied between the side walls and the main wall.
The touch sensing device are put in the middle of the room with three cables connected to the same computer. Motion censers to catch any touches.
Showing the stage before the interference. Use the tunnel and the trace of meteor for showing the time elapse and demonstrating the sense of time travel.
The lighting struck marks the start of the change and break of balance. The lighting may be the imagery of any incidents or interfere from the invisible power.
Showing the stage after the change. New orders will be made and the balance will be build again.
Showing end of the cycle when everything returns to normal. This marks the changes will eventually automatically fade out due to the time moves on.
The start setting is the tunnel and butterfly moving on the main screen and the meteor flying on the side screen which demonstrates the timeline extends. With the actor moving towards the interactive device, it demonstrates the god image with the invisible power start interfere the world. After the actor touched the hemisphere which demonstrate the earth, motion sensor will be triggered and there will be lighting stoke through all screens indicating the change was happening. With change affecting the whole screen, it will eventually return to the original states that completes a balancing cycle.
Video was shot in a dark studio with curved wall inside which enabled the setting of a main screen and two side screen. Also, the hemisphere was set up on the large platform in the middle with white sheet covered to create a sense of sacredness. The computer and projector were set on the otherside of the room with the actor coming in the opposite direction.
The video was made by After Effects with Red Giant Trapcode Suite applied. The butterfly was drew by hand with particles and light effects to create the final vision. The meteor wave was designed also using particle system and 3D environment to provide a feeling of great space.
