Year 4: Research

Year 4 Studio Work: Laying the Groundwork

My First App |Gamified Bookshelf

Background As my 21st birthday is approaching, I considered asking for an e-reader. I liked the convenience of having all of my reading in one place, and the ability to read PDF documents from it as I have trouble reading from a computer screen. However, although it is irrational, I would really miss having a …

Sense & Sensibility

Research Consciousness Qualia Qualia are private and subjective experiences that exist in the human mind. They can be described, but not accurately enough for another individual to know what the experience is like. Common examples of this are the smell of coffee or the taste of an orange. The best way we can describe these …

Design Domain II

Summary Inspired by the themes of playbour and gamification, The Bureaucrat’s Battle aims to explore the bureaucracy of war. The video game Papers, Please, has the player act as an immigration officer in a fictional, cold-war era country. Through the basic and repetitive task of checking immigrants’ passports, the player is bombarded with moral dillemas …

Data Visualisation

Research Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes The graph displays health against wealth, in the form of lifespan against income in an attempt to depict a country's quality of life. Each country is represented by a circle; its size showing its population and colour showing its continent. The graph refreshes every frame to …

Open Project

Importance of documentation in Y4 Research funding and work Jackson Pollock Process Cameras Scratch Disks- external drive JKL to scrub and play I O in-out ` key for enlarged window KL forwards 1 frame KJ backwards 1 frame + SHFT increases increment to 5 frames \ zoom timeline to fit footage Lumetri scopes   James …

Design Domain I

Research & Ideas Theme Game: games, gaming and gamification Scenarios: role-playing, rule-breaking, improvising, quick prototyping New Perspectives: exploring things and places in new, imaginative and/or alternate ways Freedom: risk-taking and experimentation in materials, methods and processes   Although I am a bit uneasy about using art school projects to put in a portfolio for jobs, …

Physical Expressions

Research and Initial Ideas Launch I missed the launch for physical expressions as I was at NEoN in Dundee. I will have to piece together the information from the workshops over the past day. Looking at the Arduino code files, I can see that we used servo motors. After learning how to use them in …

Audio Visual

Research & Reference Robert Hodgin- Magnetosphere (iTunes Visualiser) The magnetosphere was originally a Processing sketch that visualised music. Apple later commissioned The Barbarian Group to port it to C++ to exist in iTunes. https://vimeo.com/8581392 From observing the video, it looks as though there are two spheres (positive and negative) that are attracted to one another. …