Week18: Outcome I
2020-2-28/ Sunny
After finishing the two-week short project, we are back to the cooperative project. Finally, we set our course. Our target group is white-collar workers who work nine to five. We will design a room, a space that can help them relieve the pressure. Into this room you can put down their camouflage, time here is completely their own.
On Monday we went to a small room next to the classroom with small spotlights, projectors, and filters of different colors. First, we sealed the windows of the small room with black paper. Because we don't want to be influenced by any external light source, our setting is that people need to be able to have an immersive experience in this room. Then we began to do the experiment. Placing different colored filters in front of two small spotlights, the result is a bit tricky. So we tried to play some color effect videos, projected in this black room.
Through this experiment, we found that when the video of the projector hits the light on the ceiling, it will reflect, and the light will be reflected on the wall. It is like opening a window on the wall, and people can feel the light coming into the room. It was a very good attempt and inspired us. So we bought mirror papers.
exhibition
This week I went to a new exhibition with my roommate. What is on display is exactly what I am looking forward to James Turrell's light show.
James Turrell is known as a light artist. Some people call his work "painting with light", but he himself says, "my work is light itself." While other artists use physical objects such as sculptures, installations, paintings, etc., Turrell sculpts space with light. He was the quintessential artist of the light and space movement, which began in California in the 1860s. Turrell genuinely liked light as a matter. "On a microscopic level, when light is absorbed by our skin, our bodies produce vitamin D," he said. Thus the light in his eyes was visible, palpable, perceptible and knowable. Traditional painting is about putting a world in front of you, while contemporary art is about letting you into the world. Turret's work uses light as a medium of perception, inviting you into his "paintings" and immersing yourself in the colors of light. When you sit in front of his work and imagine what he created, you will find that space is his canvas and paint is light.
This is the result of our reflection experiment using mirror paper
At the same time, we also combined with the research content of the zoo to make an assumption, if we make the room through the projection of the sea world, what will be the effect.
We tried many videos of different underwater worlds and found that the jellyfish worked best. Because the blue sea, with the floating jellyfish, can make people feel calm. So we hung the mirror paper in the middle of the room, hoping that the mirror paper would be able to reflect the jellyfish video in fragments, giving people an immersive feeling.When we showed John the effects of the room, he gave us very important advice while affirming our ideas. He suggested that we replace the crowd with children, because in school, students need to receive a lot of information, so some students will have psychological problems. However, if we design a room for these children to release themselves, it will be a very good starting point. Besides, he thinks that we hang the mirror paper in the middle of the room without reference's theoretical support, and we have no strong enough reasons to support us to do so. On the other hand, it even hinders people's sight and action. Our team will further adjust the project according to John's suggestion.
On display is Constellation, a new work by James Turrell. Turrell's lifelong quest for "space within space," these luminous portals are tools to change our perception. The result of staring at them is that the boundaries of the surrounding room slowly disappear, enveloping the viewer in a solid glow. Constellations combine the temporal, sensuous, and illusory qualities of his projection works and architectural installations. The work features oval and round surfaces with frosted glass and is made from a set of technologically advanced LED lights mounted on the wall and generated by computer programming. Light changes are subtle and hypnotic, with one color changing to the next. The lighting changes in a cycle that the viewer is unaware of, just like the space in which we live, a lot of things change unconsciously.
