After all these three studies, I have learnt a totally new thing for me which called Max. I also get a deeper understanding about Interactive Art as well as get more creative mind from these work. 

Firstly, I did the research on a Interactive Art named 《Cloud》. It is a shape of cloud which made from thousands wasted light bulbs. I didn’t find much information about what the artists’s mean purpose of this work. But personally I think this work is about telling people the sense of garbage recycling as well as the environmental protection. Since the work itself was mainly made from recycling light bulbs. The work itself was really pretty and when audience pulling its chains, viewers cause lightning to flicker on the surface of the sculpture, unwittingly staging an electrical storm for the audience beyond the periphery of the rainfall. That was a visual feast and intense sensory experience for visitors. The best thing I have learnt from this was that Arts can be more active, touchable and meaningful. While I was doing me study 2 with my group members, we always come up with new ideas like add some music, mix the window this video, change the colour of the window or even shape of the screen. Works became so much fun and I though our study 2 was so excellent. We put a lot effort on it. Our main idea is to tell audience that no matter how others think or look at you, at last you have to be yourself. Cause in our work, we created a lot to windows to shoot audience but in different colours, shapes, or in pixels. Some of them also get other things to iterate the audience. We wanted to show how external factor can makes people different. However, after the audience press a key, all those windows would disappear except one window that is truly mirroring people. That means people need to often keep themselves in minds. For my study 3 work, I was sick at the week that Camille help us. So, I just did it a home by myself. Was thinking about to change one video’s background music and then change to another video. But it doesn’t work all the time so that I just give up on this and did the easier way. Just want people who look at this work can have fun with those chickens. That is what this creative work brings me. It opens my mind to think deeper about how to connect audience and art better an closer.

Secondly, I think the most successful part of my works for far is I tried to think more, not only keeping art away from my life or “yellow lines”. Because  I also have learnt how to corporate with my group members about creative work. All those creative minds has tell others so that to also help others developing their thoughts. This was quite helpful, when one person have no idea, and after someone else said a point to help this person think more. At last, I think in the future I still would like to learn about Max more. It is kind of interesting for me actually, but still hard to learn. For future job or working, I would like to do some job related with editing or design. My main interest is also about creative works so I think learn about Max is quite useful for my future job or study. But I think I still have to practise more about creative mind such as do more brain storm from one subject. I wish I can get to know more software about media or editing.

For Study 3, I just used the video playlist to play a video and If audience click the left cross it can play a short music as well as the right cross can play another music. It is just a simple background music change for one video. The only thing I wanna people see through this work is just for fun. Cause the video I put was some chickens walk out from the chicken coop, but I used two different music into this video. I think it makes the video more fun. I just want people who look at this work can have a good mood at least. Everyone could have bad day. Actually I used to think about clicking one key to turn the music on and click again to change another music. However, I was sick that I couldn’t get help from Camille who is my teacher. So I think I just give up and chose a easier way to present my study 3. 

When my group members and I created the study 2 work, we were mainly thinking about letting audience to truly look at themselves. Cause in today’s society, people always be judged by others wether people are overweight, their skin colour was too dark or their eye are not big enough. However, we wanna to tell people who look at our work to know that people looks the best when they are themselves. So, that is why we created over 5 windows at under different filters or shapes. Each of those windows were presented how others think or judge about us, and also they are different state of people. After that, when audience click “3”, all those windows gone except the most normal one which is just minoring audience themselves. During this process, the most challenge thing for us was the “lines”. They were too messy to find out which one is for which window and my group members and I pulled lines to wrong window for “hundred” times. One more thing I thought challenging is the MAX program itself. We always got ideas but we just couldn’t find how to make it work.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ZzEpYgAjDWTxrrjcTRydl0XBm_Uceh6E

For study 1 I had a research on the Interactive Art “The Cloud”. As the name implies, this work was a huge Cloud which created from 6,000 incandescent light bulbs. So I got some idea from this Art. That’s why I created my study 1 work. The whole work I was wanted people to know is they can be in different colours, audience could choose to turn it on or off. The choice is in people’s hands. Those two window also represents how others look at us. But we can choose that wether today we are “blue” or “red”. I thought the most challenge thing for me was to find which one can change the window’s colour. But, I got help from my teacher Camille, so that was not a big problem for me. The best thing was I learnt something new.