Daily Practice

How do we decide who to bring to Mars when we decide to colonize the planet in the next 20 years. Who will be the ones that will make the decisions on how the planet functions? These are questions that I have been asking myself. With that said, I decided to create 7 audition tapes of characters for my daily practice to highlight what type of people might end up in our new world. Constraints for my daily practice:

I gave myself only 30 minutes to do the following:

• research a past colonization strategy
• create a character that might support that type of colonization

Day 1:

Day 1 - Character 1. First Humans on Mars Audition Tape from Christina Elizabeth Hall on Vimeo.

Day 2:

Day 2 - Character 2. First Humans on Mars Audition Tape from Christina Elizabeth Hall on Vimeo.

Day 3:

Day 3- Character 3. First Humans on Mars Audition Tape from Christina Elizabeth Hall on Vimeo.

Day 4:

Day 4- Character 4. First Humans on Mars Audition Tape from Christina Elizabeth Hall on Vimeo.

Day 5:

Day 5- Character 5. First Humans on Mars Audition Tape from Christina Elizabeth Hall on Vimeo.

Day 6:

Day 6- Character 6. First Humans on Mars Audition Tape from Christina Elizabeth Hall on Vimeo.

Day 7:

Day 7- Character 7. First Humans on Mars Audition Tape from Christina Elizabeth Hall on Vimeo.

Final: Colonization of Mars

After many hours trying to come up with a topic for my final, I landed on the topic of Colonization of Mars.  This is something that I would love to explore and learn more about. My research on this topic will be help here

Goals for the project by week 14

• I want to create something that is informative and easy to grasp
• I want to create something that initially draws in the audience and then educates a topic in an affective way
• I am going to try to make something impactful
• Something portable
• I want to potentially combine art and science concepts
• I want to have inspiration from other artists that have a strong impact on my idea

Goals for your process

• talk to artists studying the field (or similar) as well as talk to scientists [in my last project I only talked to scientists and I feel like I need to broaden my approach)
• play more in the ideation stage
• write down every idea, even if I think it's dumb
• user test the concept before finalizing my idea

What are your opening questions?

1. What is my connection to this material?
2. How will we grow food on Mars?
3. How will we restore order in such a new place where "laws" aren't in place yet?
4. How will sociocultural "norms" be affected?
5. Would economics function the same way?
6. How will the land be divided up between countries? Who gets to govern what?
7. How will Mars evolve to support life?
8. What are the ecosystems like there?
9. Would there be travel from Earth to Mars?
10. Are they trying to solve for overpopulation of Earth?
11. What resources does Mars supply (oil, water to support life, etc?)
12. How long can humans survive there

What systems does this topic touch?

1. Socio-cultural system
2. Economic system

What systems does this topic overlap with?

1. Environmental (atmospheric system, ecosystems)

Identify precedents:

Who is working in this field?

• Nasa
• SpaceX -Elon Musk
• Mars One

what are some related projects?

I found this image very interesting:

Just Like Living on Mars

Artist: Von C. Caberte

Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 6 feet x 5 feet

Von C. Calberte was born in 1971 in the Philippines. He was raised there and currently lives in the Philippines with his wife and two sons.

Von began drawing as a child. He loved to draw pictures of his friends and classmates. He became known for his charicatures of teachers and principals.

In the early 1990's he recognized the availability of computer graphics software programs to be a powerful creative tool.

Today Von is a Freelance Artist and digital painting is his primary medium of artistic expression. His digitally painted cartoons premiered in the January 8, 2004 issue of The Black Commentator.

Think of at least two analogies for your topic or project:

• Living in a developing world
• Burning Man
• desert, barren land
• Greenhouse

Mars vs. Greenhouse

Burning Man City versus Mars City

Think of a couple of contexts/ calls your work might fit:

Now accepting proposals for 1-2 artist exhibitions and "takeover" installations for 2018! 

Our interest in Art and Science is in promoting a dialogue between artists and scientific concepts, phenomena and technology through practice. It fosters the creation of new expert knowledge in the arts by extending artists’ practice in connection with fundamental research.

• Accepting proposals for 1 to 2 artist "takeover" installations during our 'hibernation' from regular programming in December 2017 and January 2018.
• BrightFarms Systems, which was founded to advise rooftop growers, built a greenhouse atop a school on West 93rd Street in Manhattan and will be lending it out for a two month gallery opportunity.
• We seek project proposals that have the potential to allow the public to learn alongside artists, scientists and technologists doing thought-provoking work.
• We are greatly interested in project proposals that include some aspect of public demonstration and engagement with the public.
• The scientists for this edition work across and are interested in Biological Sciences, Genomics, Regenerative medicine, Internet and Science, Myth and Science, Health and Disease, Infections, Genetic Engineering, Neuroscience, Biotechnology, Perception and alternate or augmented reality and Human/machine, Mars, Terra-forming and Astronomy, interface, robotics; sensorial and extra-sensorial interfaces etc.
• Deadline for application is November 1, 2017

Play!

Mars, 2017. created with Nutmeg, Paprika, Cinnamon, Pumpkin Pie Spice, Chili Powder, Curry Power

1st wave colonization of Mars, 2030

Mars on Space Oddity from Christina Elizabeth Hall on Vimeo.

Final Colonization blueprint

Perception Neuron (Tech Eval)

This week's lab, we were tasked to work with Perception Neuron:

Failing at Perception Neuron from Christina Elizabeth Hall on Vimeo.

This lab was just a bunch of failures; we got really good at patiently troubleshooting.

After 10 tries to try and get the suit to work wirelessly, we decided to simply receive the data from the suit directly and remain plugged into the computer. Above you can see the red cable which is attached to a USB extender.

Additionally, the wifi was down, so we couldn't plug Perception Neuron into UE4 live.  Najma worked with us on all the problems that came about but wasn't able to solve them with us.

[Evaluation]: Because Perception Neuron is very finicky, I'm not sure I will use it in the future.

UE4

I had a lot of fun playing with textures (trying to get the perfect wood grain) and environmental aspects in my world. I still don't feel entirely comfortable in Unreal Engine, but I feel like I'm getting better at navigating and looking for desired assets.  Still a long way to go though.  I really value this first project as it allows me to get more confident in the game engine.

The Fall of the Circus (Working Title)

Title: The Fall of the Circus (Working Title) Team: Ji Young Chun, Chris Hall

Concept:  We are creating an immersive experience that approaches some of the history and the ultimate downfall of the circus.  The viewer will enter the circus and be shown some of the most compelling illusions that drove crowds to view these showcases.  Our goal for this piece will be for the viewer to experience an inviting time capsule that attempts challenge the way they think about the circus by providing a different perspective on its once showy demeanor.

Storyboard:

We will have four circus tents that the viewer can roam freely within. We will use lighting, sound and smoke queues to attempt to guide the viewer, however. Each tent has a different story and illusion to explore spatially in both a visual and an audible sense.

Below are the ideas for each tent:

Wireframe + Interaction

Ji create a rough example of what the layout will look like in Unity:

The elephant was captured at Hubert's Dime Museum & Flea Circus in NYC and was turned into a 3D model with the software called PhotoScan (now called Metashape).

Salary to Surplus: pitch

Salary to Surplus: Presentation deck: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1YMXsOzUpb_-Re41gT0ZT7rJc7syS81WgzOdB9h6ZBO4/edit#slide=id.g27df36bb78_0_53

References: http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2013/ph240/rajavi2/docs/33515.pdf