Hypercinema - Fall 2022
01. Soundscape of Green-Wood Cemetery
Sound Art
2022—09
Capturing the atmosphere, mood, and histoy tht is found in the silence of cemeteries through sound.
Done in collaboration with Kay Wasil.
Done in collaboration with Kay Wasil
Done in collaboration with Kay Wasil.
Done in collaboration with Kay Wasil
02. Fairytales from the Machine:
Stories for a New Age
Stories for a New Age
Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
2022—10
A collection of fairytales created by excerpts from Noel Daniel’s East of the Sun, West of the Moon fed into the Open AI text-davinci-002 model for text generations and illustrations generated by Stable Diffusion DreamStudio that is then edited by us into a book. This project aims to explore how the incorporation of machine learning and artificial intelligence could alter the nature of storytelling in human societies.
Done in collaboration with Kay Wasil.
Done in collaboration with Kay Wasil
Done in collaboration with Kay Wasil.
Done in collaboration with Kay Wasil
03. Quaker Parrots on the Floor
Animation, Augmented Reality
2022—11
This project is a humorous attempt explore the displacement of natural habitats caused by humans and how certain animals had to adapt to it. Quaker Parrots (or Monk Parakeets) were not native to the country but brought here by humans before becoming well adapted to the city. They are known to make their nests in a variety of places and even causing some electrical issues when nesting on electric poles. We made a playful twist on that and have our parrot build a nest using connection wires often used on our school floor.
Done in collaboration with Apoorva Avadhana
Done in collaboration with Apoorva Avadhana
04. Collecting Taxi Stories
Unity, Interactive
2022—12
Whether you were heading home after a long day at work or tipsy from your Friday night out, we all have our taxi adventures. Through this cornell box, we wanted to capture the things we left behind on these rides, the things we eventually got back, and the exchanges of experience with the driver.
Done in collaboration with Vera Zhong
Done in collaboration with Vera Zhong