GMU:Human and Nonhuman Performances II SS16/Kan Feng: Difference between revisions

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Purpose

The abacus (plural abaci or abacuses), also called a counting frame, is a calculating tool that was in use in Europe, China and Russia, centuries before the adoption of the written Hindu–Arabic numeral system and is still used by merchants, traders and clerks in some parts of Eastern Europe, Russia, China and Africa.------ from wikipedia As a Chinese, I was learning abacus when I was at elementary school. However, abacus was going to disappear from the education after that, and the usage of abacus is less and less. You can still find a few who play abacus quite fluently and the performance when they play abacus at my sight really interest me a lot. In this project, I want to design a interactive installation based on the algorithm of Chinese Modern Abacus, which has one bead on each rod in the upper deck and four beads each in the bottom for decimal computation.

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 == Purpose ==
-My aim in this project show is to explore the relationship between humans and machines. Who is controlling whom in a human-machine system? While humans are trying to control the machinery, his behavior could also be interpreted. The machines here can be installation, electronics and visualization made by smart devices.
+The abacus (plural abaci or abacuses), also called a counting frame, is a calculating tool that was in use in Europe, China and Russia, centuries before the adoption of the written Hindu–Arabic numeral system and is still used by merchants, traders and clerks in some parts of Eastern Europe, Russia, China and Africa.------ from wikipedia
-I am going to build an interactive visualization show based on Multi-human Behavior. The behavior will be designed to integrate into an installation or platform, and the behavior will produce connections and confliction in a visual way between humans.
+As a Chinese, I was learning abacus when I was at elementary school. However, abacus was going to disappear from the education after that, and the usage of abacus is less and less. You can still find a few who play abacus quite fluently and the performance when they play abacus at my sight really interest me a lot.
+In this project, I want to design a interactive installation based on the algorithm of Chinese Modern Abacus, which has one bead on each rod in the upper deck and four beads each in the bottom for decimal computation.
 == How it works ==
-Sound can be a graph which has its own pattern, Sound is also the medium that we humans are using to communicate, what if we visualize the sound, and what if sound can be used in a way to communicate other than language.
-In my plan, I want to build an interactive installation with several microphones set in this platform to serve for visitors to come to speak out any voices they want, and generating their own voices patterns or visualized sounds on the screen. The interesting thing will be the visualized patterns can interfere with the ones of other visitors’. The patterns will be possible to combine to form a more colorful, kinetic graphics, but there can also be confliction generated in between.
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 == Conclusion ==
-Under this circumstance, the visitors may start to chase the entertainment, and their voices and choices of microphones may differ through this process.They won’t come to realize their behaviors are actually interfered by their experience in this interactive process. However, the expression of the visualization reacted to their voices will be the key to this interactive installation.