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Video essay:
Ambiguous Modes of Production / 3min 5sec / 2020 All video, imagery, and audio created by Wesley Chau
About the sound: recording of the 3D printer at work translated into Ableton as a MIDI track. I love how the sound libraries converted this machine sound into a mysterious track with vintage sci-fi film vibes.
Final 3D-printed paper pulp studies.
Visualizations of imagined world utilizing this ambiguous mode of production.
Ideas in Form - Digital
Experimented with facial tracker in p5js to create a mouth drawing tool. I was interested in playing with the physicality of the body as a mode of production (as a wasp would construct its hive using raw materials and the mouth).
Try the drawing tool here. Click the screen in the sketch to save the image and press on your keyboard to start a new drawing.
Ideas in Form - Physical
3D printed paper pulp test 02
Ideas in Form - Physical
Hand-made paper pulp test 01
Ideas in Form — Narrative
The Queen
The leader. The superior. The monarch. The architect. The mother. She holds many roles and operates with a holistic mindset. During autumn, she secures a suitable mate (the drone). Fertilization commences. By winter, she seeks shelter and rests. It is during winter when true calm and leisure occurs. Come early spring, the queen scouts for the site. She drafts initial plans and sets intentions for the coming season. Expansion begins. The initial groundwork is laid out and she is ready to birth the offspring. Thirty days later, the first cohort of workers emerge...
The Worker
The worker is vital to the community and contributes to the majority of the population. She is loyal, focused, meticulous, and relentless. In the early days, she sets out to forage raw materials for the project and food for the young. For a majority of her life, she is producing and expanding the project — using her body constantly to convert raw-material into end-product. As she ages, she graduates to the roles of caregiver and defender. Messaging and high-level communication are delivered through the interdependent relationship between the worker and the young. By early fall, the worker is no longer needed and reaches retirement.
The Drone
The drone is supportive, emotional, a romantic. When the drone is young, he supports the workers as they expand, forage, and care. Once he becomes of age and reaches maturity, he embarks on his greatest task: the drone must leave the community and is deployed to find a new queen to mate with. After he matches and mates with a queen, his body and presence is no longer needed. He faces retirement.
The Youth
The youth are the receivers and senders of food and information. They rely on the adult workers and drones to tend to their needs. In return, their bodies produce nutrient-rich byproducts and transfer announcements from the queen via pheromones and chemical-communication.
Ideas in Form 4D
Memories would not be so reliable as it once was when time passed by. What if people keep thinking a certain memory, how real would it be at the end?
