My final project of Visualizing Data class started from my curiosity. What kinds of wine and coffee are people mostly enjoying around the world? I made the list of grape varieties and coffee varieties which would be used for getting data from Twitter. I visualized Twitter data in New york and Paris.
There was a little girl who couldn’t understand many things in the world where she belonged.
She couldn’t understand why there is suffering, sadness and badness.
She couldn’t understand why space and time should be as it is.
She couldn’t understand why and how the universe becomes like this.
She couldn’t understand how many dimensions we can be aware of.
She couldn’t understand what life is and then what death is.
She couldn’t understand many things.
What and why it is.....
Now the little girl has grown, still looking for the answer.
She just try to contain her consciousness in her work at certain time.
Yes. She is me. I think there is no way to express my thoughts thoroughly in other media, not writing, speaking, music, visual art or performance, only the form of my work. It is an abstract animation, visual music and synesthetic cinema. It consists of visual, sound and motion combined together into my own invented language which will I hope allow me to communicate with an audience.
When we say expanded cinema we actually mean expanded consciousness. Expanded cinema does not mean computer films, video phosphors, atomic light, or spherical projections. Expanded cinema isn’t a movie at all: like life it’s a process of becoming, man’s ongoing historical drive to manifest his consciousness outside of his mind, in front of his eyes. (in the Preface of ‘Expanded Cinema’)
I’ve just finished ‘Dancing, Moment’, the project for Big Screens show 2009.
This project is about my accumulated consciousness since I started to doubt.
To me, ‘Dancing, Moment’ means ‘Life’.
It can be life of one day.
It can be life of universe.
It can be life of an atom.
It can be life of a person.
It can be lives of all creatures.
It cab be life in this space and time.
It can be life in another space and time.....
I respect people’s own consciousness.
I hope my project evoke people’s own emotion and allow them to experience their own narrative.
I appreciate Daniel Shiffman for providing me the opportunity to participate in this project with his great support and advice.
I appreciate Nancy Hechinger for her great guide and class which let me trained to show and tell my thought to people.
I appreciate Marina Zurkow for her great advice leading me to find my way.
I appreciate Winslow Porter for his support of making music in the early stage of my project.
Thank you, Alasdair Turner, for his Nurbs code with processing.
And I appreciate all my big screens project colleagues.
