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Always dwell in the dreams and those weird wonderlands ☄️✨🌙utopia you could say

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Poster 3 - Human

A highly functional intelligent type of species that can reflect upon ourselves as a human being so as to understand others and function cooperatively  as a community. 

"We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.” - Albert Einstein. 

Group: @abigailphoebe @stevenyang226

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Poster 2 - Cockroach

Most species of cockroach are about the size of a thumbnail, but several species are bigger. They have a relatively small head and a broad, flattened body, and most species are reddish-brown to dark brown. 

Cockroaches are among the hardiest (toughest) insects, they are resilient and fast- breeding. Some species are capable of remaining active for a month without food and are able to survive on limited resources, such as the glue from the back of postage stamps.

“Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.” - Joseph Wood Krutch

Group: @abigailphoebe @stevenyang226

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Poster 1 - Giant Panda

Giant panda is native to south central China. It is easily recognized by the large, distinctive black patches around its eyes, over the ears, and across its round body. The name "giant panda" is sometimes used to distinguish it from the unrelated red panda

The giant panda is among the world's most adored and protected rare animals, and is one of the few in the world whose natural inhabitant status was able to gain a UNESCO World Heritage Site designation.

"Be Like a Panda He's Black White Asian and Chubby”.

Group: @abigailphoebe @stevenyang226

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Experiment 1 - initial thought on the project

We came up with the idea of designing an evaluation on a person’s lifespan, and according to his/her behaviour and morality measurements, we created a system - keep track on a person’s scores of his life, and it determines what this person can be in his next life. 

Inspiration:  Rogier Creemers’s research on social credits system in China that is created for managing social orders.

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Assessment 3 - Value

Group members:

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Week 10 // Glitch

Detaching the ‘natural’ from its initial life source, disrupting the constant growth and nourishment by being placed in a manmade environment. There is irony in the placement of the plants on the wooden bench as it, too, used to be a part of a living organism – the tree. 

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One beautiful and deliberate glitch

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Concept Statement

“Q: Can creative acts be rebellious when rebellion has become canonised in art, design and media histories? What would a contemporary creative rebellion look like?”

The final project assembles all the concepts that I would like to cover in terms of creative rebellious acts, it has been through a dramatic evolution stemming from an unpopular controversial social concern, to the depressing reality of the current deep web dilemma and finally arrived at a summary of our on-going suffering journey as being a human and the idealised world that portrayed by our imagination.

What Philip Budkin has started – the blue whale movement, as well as similar series of Momo challenge, and establishing a most terrifying character based on a murder story, is one way of contemporary creative rebellion, projecting anger into the society by punishing innocent people or influencing them into a negative light, which most of the horror movies are based on people’s fear and weakness. However this type of rebellion is endangering the society, targeting the vulnerable and easily persuaded young generations so that their lack of critical minds will fail them and therefore let them be misled into believing in the darkness. The minority group are unrecognised and quiet that is usually neglected in the real world, and that opens up opportunities to the predators to invade into their minds, slowly and slowly corroded. Internet is such a broad but also private platform for the kids to seek for escape and reveal their softness, and because it is unlikely to be detected through online chats, it can hardly be intervened or monitored by the public.

The red whale is a good icon and a guidance that can empower young people, strengthen their mentality through self-helping practices, and a counter-rebellion for the unhealthy influence in the society. It therefore pinpointed the main theme for this assessment, and could also be known as “The Defence Against the Dark Arts”.

The colour red itself has the notion of love, energy, desire and power, it encompasses both the positive and negative experience that we have throughout our life, yet here the main focus is empowerment and resilience that pushes us to overcome or fuels us with energy to fight against human flaws. The white colour left in the rest of the poster signifies purification, as referenced from the White Temple, suggests the hope for us to overcome the human nature and pursue a better state of ourselves rather than being hopeless and dwell in our desires. It borrows the ideology from Buddhism that we are in a living hell to suffer through all the difficulties as well as Dante’s inferno illustrating our journey through the seven sins – pride, envy, sloth, anger, greed, hunger and lust.

Even though we are in a modern world, facing different problems such as cyberbullies, pressures coming from the virtual world as well as the real world, we still share the same problems as people in ancient times, and therefore it is important for us to learn these about ourselves and be sceptical to the temptations and the vast amount of information surrounding us from an early age. It saddens me to see kids die from such a young age and the number is still increasing due to the big web that we all fall into nowadays. Everyone has access to internet, kids advance into the adult world a lot earlier than before, they are not prepared to receive criticism and process dangerous information properly, therefore there should be more care and activist on the internet to discover those vulnerable kids and intervene with potential risky thoughts that they have. Other online users should also be aware of their language and actions, not to cause social panic to the online community, and hence this poster is also morality reminders of them to be able to monitor their own actions and being alert with their morality. It is extremely important nowadays that we keep clean of this virtual reality in various creative ways with our enhanced intelligence and ethical standards.

Contemporary rebellious acts are creative in the way that we are able to utilise different presentations of ourselves through internet, the community is broadened and more freedom and methods are given to people to express themselves, therefore we are expected to be better at critically identify the good and the bad so as to keep us safe while enjoying the virtual world.

Reference:

Dewey, C, "The complete history of ‘Slender Man,’ the meme that compelled two girls to stab a friend.". in The Washington Post, , 2018, <https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/06/03/the-complete-terrifying-history-of-slender-man-the-internet-meme-that-compelled-two-12-year-olds-to-stab-their-friend/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5401d694043f> [accessed 12 September 2018].

Fernando, G, "‘Momo’ is the latest terrifying game to sweep the web.". in News.com, , 2018, <https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/momo-is-the-latest-terrifying-game-to-sweep-the-web/news-story/619a8c4c7b93a273f4e2ab4481aacbed> [accessed 26 September 2018].

Johnson, J, "Jess Johnson.". in JESS JOHNSON, , 2018, <http://www.jessjohnson.org/> [accessed 10 September 2018].

Meet, M, BLUE WHALE CHALLENGE SHORT FILM WITH A MESSAGE (ENGLISH SUBTITLES) || Mohak Meet. in , , 2018, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yURoT2bBfWQ> [accessed 25 September 2018].

Sophie Guilbert, Black Mirror’s ‘Shut Up and Dance’ Is a Horrifying Thriller. in , , 2016, <https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/10/black-mirror-season-three-review-shut-up-and-dance-netflix/504929/> [accessed 26 September 2018].

"Strange interior of the White temple in Chiang Rai". in , , 2018, <https://www.travelphotoreport.com/2013/01/11/strange-interior-white-temple-chiang-rai/> [accessed 10 September 2018].

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Illustration 3 - Final Project

The red whale eventually killed the evil octopus and made it to the water surface. The journey of the whale is not easy - having climbed through the dante’s purgatory, overcome - pride, envy, sloth, anger, greed, hunger and lust. 

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Wat Rong Khun - The White Temple

As I was carefully appreciating Jess Johnson’s artwork, the image of white temple popped up in my head. It is an unconventional, privately owned art-exhibit in the style of Buddhist temple in Chiang Rai Province in Thailand. The outside of the temple is completely white, symbolizes purification and cleanse of human souls, yet it created a huge contrast to the inside - creations from our desires, temptation, and the conflicts that we caused. The lotus in the third pictures signifies the torturing and the transformation process that us humans have to been through to reach the gate of the heaven, so as to rise into the dragon boats above them flying towards the Buddha.

It made me think that those self-destructing campaigns in fact have the same goals as the temple - to have their souls cleansed - but through a negative method of taking away their own life as a way to escape from the reality. The creation of this organisation facilitates young people’s pessimistic attitude towards life, instead of guiding them positively, let them know that brightness come after the frustrations they have been through. 

Reference:

https://www.travelphotoreport.com/2013/01/11/strange-interior-white-temple-chiang-rai/

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Jess Johnson - A contemporary artist who works in drawing, installation, animation and virtual reality.

After going to the event on public bodies, I was intrigued by Jess’s drawings on the walls. Her artwork contains a dense and complex worlds consisting of multiple layers within a architectural context. Her digital drawings display a scientific layout within which human bodies appears in incomplete and twisted shapes in combined with monumental figures. The alien face however also suggests a futuristic style that made the whole picture seem mysterious and uncertain.

Her style encouraged me to experiment on this type of drawing, and made me think about how to illustrate the topic further.

Her website: http://www.jessjohnson.org/

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Illustration 2

This drawing of mine reflected my understanding of the deep web that traps the vulnerable and harmless “blue whales”. The giant momo-slenderman-looking octopus trapped the two little whales into it’s hunting field, and sucked them in further and further. Their tentacles stretch out and pulling in the little whales towards its mouth, like the allure of the cyber message that draws in the innocent teenagers and let them fall into the untouchable depth. The flying eye balls with communication fibers attached to each other, function as surveillance cameras that spies on the whales and detect potential preys.

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Other similar games...

Slenderman - creating the most scary supernatural character challenge leads to the arrival of this figure and developed into a game. 

Momo Challenge - By talking to this person on whatsapp, the player is requested to complete the given tasks or there personal information would be leaked into the public.

Shut up and dance - Black mirror 3.3 Masturbating teenager being blackmailed.

Reference:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/06/03/the-complete-terrifying-history-of-slender-man-the-internet-meme-that-compelled-two-12-year-olds-to-stab-their-friend/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5c5d1005cbd0

https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/momo-is-the-latest-terrifying-game-to-sweep-the-web/news-story/619a8c4c7b93a273f4e2ab4481aacbed

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/10/black-mirror-season-three-review-shut-up-and-dance-netflix/504929/

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Illustration 1 

Up till last year, it has killed 130 people in Russia and the groups have expanded in other countries such as Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United States, etc. have all found deaths related to this game. The online community has gotten alerted and some internet service portal began closing down suspicious groups, such as Tencent, China’s largest internet group demolished relevant chats and blocked the sensitive words.

To counter this anti-human, a few alerted individuals initiated a self-help and self-nourishing game called the red whale challenge - send love to self on an everyday basis, following exactly the same schedule as the blue whale but was given positive tasks such as sending hugs and encouragement self.

In accordance to this unpopular little campaign, I became curious and interested into becoming part of it and exploring an artistic platform to express my emotional concerns and engagement.

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50 challenges of blue whale game 

(The following content may contain elements that are not suitable for some audiences):

1. Carve with a razor “f57” on your hand, send a photo to the curator

2. Wake up at 4.20am. and watch psychedelic and scary videos that curator sends you.

3. Cut your arm with a razor along your veins, but not to deep, only 3 cuts, sned a photo to the curator

4. Draw a whale on a sheet of paper, send a photo to curator.

5. If you are ready to “become a whale”, carve “yes” on your leg. If not, cut yourself many times (punish yourself).

6. Task with a cipher.

7. Carve “f40” on your hand, send a photo to curator

8. Type “#i_am_whale” as your status.

9. overcome your fear.

10. Wake up at 4.20 a.m. and go to a roof (the higher the better)

11. Carve a whale on your hand with a razor, send a photo to curator.

12. Watch psychedelic and horror videos all day.

13. Listen to music that “they” (curators) send you

14. Cut your lip

15. Poke your hand with a needle many times

16. D something painful to yourself make yourself sick

17. Go to the highest roof you can find, stand on the edge for some time.

18. Go to a bridge, stand on the edge.

19. Climb up a crane or at least try to do it

20. The curator checks if you are trustworthy.

21. Have a talk “with a whale” (with another player like you or with a curator) in Skype.

22. Go to the roof and sit on the edge with your legs dangling.

23. Another task with a cipher

24. Secret task

25. Have a meeting with a “whale”

26. The curator tells you the date of your death and you have to accept it.

27. Wake up at 4.20am and go to rails (visit any railroad that you can find)

28. Don’t talk to anyone all day.

29. Make a vow that you are a whale.

30-49 Everyday you wake up at 4.20am, watch horrow videos, listen to music that “they” send you, make 1 cut on your body per day, talk “to a whale”.

50. Jump off a high building. take your life.

This movement started first in 2013 in Russia by a 21-year-old former psychology student who got expelled from uni and was dissatisfied with the society therefore invented this “game” to push fragile people to commit suicide. Fortunately to the society, this man was arrested and put to prison.

Reference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yURoT2bBfWQ 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Whale_(game) 

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Assessment 2

For assessment 2, I will continue with the second topic - rebellious acts and experiment upon other materials and themes, however astray partially from the previous one on women’s autonomy, and now focusing on social-controversial topic on cyberbully and self-shaming, and keep exploring the extent and scope of contemporary creative acts. Recently, I heard about some toxic social movements targeting vulnerable internet users and was curious to find out that these “games” had significant impact on particular group of young teenagers and had led them on a dangerous path. My following experiment would be surrounding this topic.

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Conceptual Statements

A significant aspect of contemporary rebellion is represented in the liberation of the minds that people are more acceptive to communicate and acknowledge sensitive topics such as sex and prostitution. In Asian cultures mainly, people usually avoid or not take considerations of this topics in their relationships or openly in the public, which creates a societal pressure on supressing people’s needs and devalue people who are open to this field. Women conform to the main stream value to preserve their purity and integrity, but unfortunately sometimes results in unhappy marriage and unintimate relationships.

Furthermore, it is an encouragement for the women who are shy or unconfident with their own bodies or are afraid of standing up for themselves. Especially for women who provide sexual services for work should recognise the value of their work and themselves, like the ones in Red Light District in Amsterdam have a great community of girls who support and love each other, and are equally respected in the society. An influence of culture is hence essential for more conservative cultures so that they can realise liberation of women to a higher level.

The making process of the poster itself is a rebellious act I believe, and the final project specifically appeals to women’s awareness of their sexual situation in their relationship and the community, as well as the people who hold prejudice against this regulated business and the workers, since everyone has their own right to make a living and work in jobs they enjoy. Nobuyoshi and Araki both well demonstrated their appreciation for its beauty and photographed them as artworks. When people turn off their judgemental minds but to perceive things in an admiring way, it is easy to discover aesthetics and the valuable meanings behind.

Creative acts can always be rebellion when the creators are courageous to think and act, beyond the norms, and can be comfortable with it regardless of the external barriers.

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As I was making the poster, I saw the black and white stripes and thought it’d be a waste not to use it in the poster and they are a perfect fit for filling up the mouth. The two letters “S” and “X” were put together to express the content in an indirect but obvious way. To finalise the poster, I felt the need to make it look like an episode of film that is captured specifically for this topic.