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Gaudí, the City Poet
2022.5 Gaudí, the City Poet Mingyue Chen Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí designed seven buildings in Barcelona, which now have become the city’s tourism branding. Gaudí’s artworks are eye-refreshing for people who get tired of those box-like tall buildings in the concrete forest. His architectures feature vivid color and textures, organic and natural design, and religious…
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The Light of the Firefly
2021.12 The Light of the Firefly Mingyue Chen I went to the oldest high school in my city. In junior high school, we studied on that old campus with its hundred years of history, the same campus where my grandparents went to high school. The academic building in the old city center is old and…
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Home Museum
Home Museum AR Development：Mingyue Chen, Joshua Lee Voice Recording: Francisco Briggs Tools: Unity Date: 2021.12 Home Museum is an AR app that allows visitors to take the Greek statue standing on top of the Humboldt Forum back home as their pocket collection https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wx4yDmTbbSCM-riihBlauW7RoylhDScz/view?usp=sharing Augmented reality App Desktop and mobile scene display Mission Design an app that can…
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Week13
Digital Practice Essentially, there are three basic methods of preserving new media art. The most inelegant and impractical one is to collect software and hardware, which would easily turn any art institution into a “computer museum.” Another strategy are emulators, computer programs that “recreate” the conditions of hardware, software, or operating systems, so that the…
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Week12
Exhibition The essay inspires me, especially in describing how an exhibition works and how a curator makes a good exhibition. The curator should become an invisible agent between the artists and the audience’s conversation. They need to actively question and critique the art collection in the exhibition and protect the work not disturbed by the…
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Week11
Poetic Technology This paper talks about google glass, wearable technology, which tried to make humans cyborg-human. The failure of google glass shows that it could not be the best solution so far. The sociologist Anne Galloway’s critics, identify AR as a tool for daily living and social interaction as not enough. Even though Google glass…
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Shanghai Old House
Shanghai Old House Designer：Mingyue Chen Tools: Unity Date: 2021.11 Scenes from period TV drama in China inspired this project, so I created a game UI prototype showing the interior of a typical old Shanghai house, expressing my nostalgia for the period between 1912 and 1949. At that time, many literary artists, such as Eileen Chang, settled in…
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Week9
Virtual Museum I like how the author compares the condition of the virtual museum to photography. The reproduction changes people’s attitudes toward art and enlarges the trivial part in the original pieces. With the development of virtual museums, scholars and visitors can do more in-depth studies individually and remotely. It will push the relationship between…
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Van Gogh and his illness
Van Gogh and his illness UI Design: Mingyue Chen Tools: Figma Date: 2021.10 An App introducing Van Gogh’s illness stories and raising people’s awareness of mental health https://www.figma.com/proto/Dp13B6H1OJB0BCqp88Hi5Q/Van-Gogh-and-His-illness?node-id=305%3A212&scaling=scale-down&page-id=0%3A1&starting-point-node-id=305%3A212 For this project, I collect artworks from Van Gogh which are related to his illness. These works were mainly created in 1888-1890, the last two years of his life.…
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Week7
Musée de la Chasse https://www.chassenature.org/en I will do the project about Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature because I find its website is fascinating in displaying. The museum mainly introduces the relationship between hunting and nature. In another world, it is about the relationship between humans and nature. This topic always exists in…