I got a lot of things in the creative process, such as a better understanding of creativity and some application of technology. In general, the process of creation is very difficult. I encountered a lot of difficulties in the process of creation. For example, at the beginning, I spent a lot of energy to find the source of inspiration and the technical problems that I could not solve in the process of creating. First of all, let me talk about the aspect of inspiration. Inspiration is not something you want to have. It may appear at any moment, but it is not necessarily specific. It may be just a very small idea. Inspiration usually need to take a long time to think about it and polish it so that this inspiration can grow and become better. Then we can use some skills of techniques to make our inspiration concrete and more attractive. Our studio’s aim is doing this and making our inspiration a reality. In the aspect of technique, this was my first time using a program like MAX, before this I didn’t realize it was possible to create things in coding or visual coding programs, so it has been a really good experience to experiment with different artistic materials and media. I really enjoyed the creative process. We can discuss our ideas with classmates and tutors in class. Some of the other students’ ideas are really interesting. More importantly, the tutor will patiently teach me how to use Max, so that I will not give up my creation easily.

While dealing with interactive art production techniques, I found that some simple technical operations can give users an amazing artistic experience. I have never thought of only changing the color of the background of the video can give the users a unique experience with art. Interactive art provided a good insight into the world of art and how humans function with it. Using max has made me realize the new side of the interactive art world, while interactive art can give users more ways to get to know, understand art and not be bored. Art is intangible, but interactive art makes art tangible, allowing users to experience art and communicate with art. For example, in my third study, I want users to be able to put themselves into different countries without leaving their home. At the same time, users can listen to beautiful music when they watch the video. For this interactive art, I set up a very simple way to use it. The users can switch the background of the video at will by simply tapping on a few simple cases on the keyboard. Although this is simple, it still gives users a different kind of special experience about interactive art. I believe that everyone who comes into contact with interactive art will be deeply impressed by it.
My technology is not so skilled now that it can’t make the user experience perfectly. I hope that I will improve my interactive art technology skills so that users can have a better experience in my programs.

So far in my development with MAX, I think that my creativity has already been reflected in the process of doing assignment 2. Also, I learn some about how to use Max make something. In the process of exploring the effect function of the Max, I began to discover that I had the ability and interest to explore this software. I found this software really makes my inspiration a reality. So that users are immersed in the interactive art I created. In addition, our second study is a group study. In this study, each team member has their own ideas. The most cool thing is that after many discussions, we can combine the highlights of each person’s ideas to make the final interactive art work. Although in the process of creative integration, we have encountered many difficulties. But fortunately, we finally solved it satisfactorily. Overall the three studies, my abilities of creativity, expressing ideas and editing device are gradually improved, it also can be considered as a successful part about my work so far!

For the three works which I have done, all of them have some shortcomings that need to be improved one step further.
But I believe that my ability will increase by more training in the future. I don’t think this is a bad thing, because it means that I have more knowledge to learn in the future. At the same time, I feel that I am lacking in creativity. For these reasons, I did not do my three studies very well. The use of the help and reference windows has also been extremely useful and guiding. I think my third study can be improved so that people feel as they are when they see the video. Its purpose is to enhance the interaction between interactive art and users. Overall, I need to make much effort in many aspects to build my future work better. Enhancing the level of interaction between my work and the user is my top priority.

In my third study, I went back to a complete study of using key functions and words to display several relevant videos and music at the same time. For this particular study, I based it around four different buttons, with the intentions of having those start and stop when the buttons ‘1’ ‘2”3’ or ‘4’ were typed into the keyboard. My main theme in this study was to make people use the different keyboards to see themselves in the different background of different countries, and then for the expected reaction to appear on screen. However, in this study, I most want to give users the feeling that they can go to any place they want to go without leaving home. At the same time they can also listen to beautiful music. During this study, my major challenge was getting working with the program to get the background of the video changed. Although it was finally successful, the clarity of the final video was actually not ideal. I hope that I can find a good solution to this problem in the exploration of future courses. I want to revisit this study later in the semester and make it functional, I believe that with some more experience with MAX I can make it happen perfectly.

In my first work, the theme of this work is that colorful. Changing different colors of the background of the video can make users have the different feelings when they watch the image of themselves in the video. The users contribute their own image to the work through the camera function, which is triggered by the ‘open’ key. In the project, users can control the color of the video by using mouse to change color on the palette. Due to this, they can make them look like in any color in the window. For example, they want themselves to look in green, they just need to move the mouse to select green part in the palette, so they can make themselves look in green in the window.

I explored using ‘open’ keys to trigger reactions, in this case turning on the camera. Also,I learned to change the color of the video by using the 2toner to realize it. As I’m still newbie to this and learning everything I explored was new and involved technical issues. I’m aware that a specific learning curve will be the commands in MAX and understand which to use to create my future projects. In the future, I hope to make some better and more interesting projects.