Precedents and Research

What is your design concept?

I questioned about if there is a certain force, movement,energy or medium that human sense can't aware of, and it drives the human emotions but without being seem, or evokes a very vague, undefined feeling. 

I feel the mysterious when I couldn't interpret or understand what my feeling is: Odd, absurd, curious... When I am not using subconscious or psychology field to state my mind, I would like to believe that it is the force , something very massive , so chaos that we couldn't generalize or conclude in our experience. And by mean of this thing, we completed our emotional needs, causes, and shows. So I would like to point out them by presenting "Time" , and provide the "Chance " for audience to catch it.

Animation concept for example:

1) "We are too fast to see this!"

The concept is from the birth of the universe, every star ran away from each others because the expansion. Present it in the short animations. characters are pulled away from every scene and become a little spot. also changing every starting point for running away in the whole composition, it shows that we are not the center of the universe.

2) "Our lives are too short to witness the whole cycle..."

Making a fine story represents "things run on the orbit ". And characters show regularly in certain logic or rules (but with slightly different changes increasingly)  in normal speed. Break the rule as a Loop when showing. so there is no such short cycle audience can figure out.

3)  "We are too anxious to give a name to everything..."

Unidentified movement and characters. like behind a veil. 

Maya Deren
Experimental filmmaker
She documented the Haiti rituals, modern dance, martial art, 

and in the way she cut or tried to experiment the coherence in her films makes me aware of the relation of objectivity, distance between light & shadows and certain Flow that can't be described.  

1945, A study in choreography for camera
1944, At Land




Alison de Vere

Designer, Animator and filmmaker

This film 'The Black Dog" finished in 1989, was about a journey of self-searching and desire of subconsciousness.

Author used a lot of symbols and metaphor to imply ancient culture with the religion, genders, desire and human's strength like : knowledge, saint and parents' love.  They are very visual and personal, which provides me a close up of organic life form of a single inner. 

For the concept:

Peter Galison

Physicist

He received his Ph.D in both Physics and the history of science in Harvard, and claimed that even the science are dominated by large scientific proof, statistically significant, repeating result, but in high energy physics field, there is still a single behavior of particle passing through the electric field that is a single instance.(Richard Feynman's multiple history idea)

In the way that cannot be explained by the characteristics of existing know particles.

   

In this talk of how human is no longer the center of the universe, but a piece of universe history, phenomenon. 

How each person's life was described by non-human way of description.

(method of Martin Heidegger). I wonder even the scientific statistics can be the perfect relativity of spontaneous or a very chaotic, more ancient form  of organic behavior. 

Meeting of the Minds

Sample for tv series exploring intersections of art, science and philosophy, recently awarded NEA Arts on Television grant.