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An analysis on the Instrument X
Research report
2018
The project was a collaboration with Shanghai NYU. We collected mo-cap data of several traditional Chinese arts, including Guqin and Guzheng, which are ancient instruments, and Chinese calligraphy also.
When looking into the mo-cap data, we found ourselves unconsciously discuss the data without the content of human body and the art form itself constantly. It raised a question for us that when digital technology interpreted the motion of an art form without the content of human body or the outcome of it, is it still meaningful? Or did it create a new form of art?
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We wandered what would happen if the mo-cap data is our only way to learn about an instrument.
We created a world gone through a Great Disaster, in which most of the world's culture was lost, including the Instrument X. We were two paranoid computer scientists trying to reconstruct and revive the long-lost instrument through the mo-cap date which survive the disaster. Using softwares like Touch Designer and Unity on visualization and analysis, we came up with some pretty interesting sketching.
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