GMU:Artists Lab:Xiaomei Xie: Difference between revisions

People on the Fly is an artwork made by Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau. 2016.On a large scale screen there is a developed participatory public artwork where passers-by can see themselves and also be turned into a swarm of flies. A specially developed software detects all moving persons and communicates their data to artificial program insects. When a person moves, within seconds hundreds of flies invade his or her body, but when he or she stands still, the insects fly away. The resulting image scenarios are in constant flux, they construct and deconstruct, and people become visible and disappear again within a swarm of insects. People on the Fly celebrates the ephemeral moment and the hustle and bustle of everyday life, where only standing still for a short moment makes one see one's own image clearly.

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This art piece gives me a great impression on the application  of particle system in my project. In this project there is a combination of video of real world and the particle system , the virtual one, I think this is a clever way to make some interaction with the audience .this work let me think about that I am going to try use the particle system together with the video or image compose my project’ basic way of technic idea.

3) Ghost Pole Propagator II by Golan Levin

   I really like this work, which was made by Golan Levin in 2016 who is an artist, composer and designer whose work focuses on new modes of interactive audiovisual expression.  And it is based on his formal version in 2007 of Ghost Pole Propagator which is an interactive installation originally developed for projection in the 13th century Belsay Hall Castle, in Newcastle, England as part of the Picture House exhibition with a catalogue states: "Levin's new interactive installation presents a phantom transcription of visitors to the Belsay Castle, recording and replaying highly abstracted 'skeletons' of the artwork's own observers. Projected on the walls of the castle's medieval kitchen, the quiet and otherworldly animations suggest the bustle of past ghosts, or ancient petroglyphs." And in this 2016 version II, the project has been reimagined at a significantly larger scale, and rendered with the perceptually remarkable light of laser beams.  

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First ,there is a big involvement for the passerby. Participants see their own stick-figures, mirroring their movements. At the same time, they also observe the animated stick-figures of previous participants, whose movements had been recorded moments or hours earlier. It make great fun to the people around. Second and more importantly, it produces just the skeleton，and this artwork show a great respect to the audience because there is no problem of privacy and eventually allow participants to join without hesitation or fear. This Piece give me the idea about solving the problem of how to simplify the graphic belies their emotional force and eliminate unnecessary details and reducing visual elements to their absolute essence about my project.

I use the Processing  as my main programming tool and also P5.JS is used. And the program I use the opencv library  

as a reference.  I upload one ancient painting and one same view of modern picture as the main view structure , and  by applying opencv optical flow , I can get the audience optical flow .If the flow strong enough , there will generate particles which fill from the background –ancient painting ,viewed as the “snow” dropping down,  but are controlled by the audience movement, it seems like that there is a wind controlling the “snow”  and reproduce the nature view but include both ancient and present .

===Part 4 : Progress and achievement(choose one of them）===

other try: create a eraser effect . audience can erase  

the modern picture and see the ancient picture by any gesture.