Final Project [Research]

Artist: Dr. Sulaiman Esa

Artist Background:

Dr. Sulaiman Esa is one of the most brilliant and spiritual Malaysia around. His previous works basically very much inspired and influenced by the Islamic values and its calligraphic strokes and technique.

He is also among of the earliest and perhaps the few artist who follow a strict and maintain the guideline of producing art with Islamic value and principles. He came into this industry of art and design is about during the 1980's year when the government of Malaysia in its effort to promote Islamic values and principles within the Malay and Muslim community drew many initiatives and brilliant in the Islamic programme in 1982.

Dr. Sulaiman Esa's works was best manifested during the time when he wanted to inject an internationalist and multicultural frames that draw inspirations and design from the fundamentals of Islam to be used in contemporary art form and design. Dr. Sulaiman Esa is recognized and well known as one of the most visionary artists in the Malaysian scene.

(Dr.Sulaiman Esa)

Project Title:

Raja'ah : Art, Idea and Creativity [1950 - 2011]

Project Venue:

National Art Gallery

(Raja'ah)

This exhibition is more than meets the eye. Sulaiman Esa has dived into the core of Malaysian identity and values using elements of pop culture. The artiste is basically trying to break free from the stereotyping mind of the hegemony of Western culture. Interesting enough, he managed to combine Captain America and Darth Vader paper cut into works that rooted in Islamic principals and geometry.

The artist’s driving philosophy was the quest to break free from the hegemony of Western culture and to create a uniquely Malaysian cultural identity. He strived for this in his works, blending local materials and techniques with pop culture. Captain America and Darth Vader papercuts suddenly appear in what initially seem like works specifically rooted in Islamic principles of geometry and repetition, and Sulaiman’s ‘Beauty in Diversity’ pieces celebrate Malaysia’s multicultural flavour without once stepping into that dreaded realm of cheesy.

This exhibition is unexpected, different at every angle, and proof that if you look, there are some absolute gems in Malaysian art. More history on the artist would’ve been nice, but the exhibition scores top points for its breadth. Gallery 3B has many of Sulaiman’s old works (landscapes from his youth, homages to Van Gogh and the Impressionists), there’s a video of the artist in conversation with the curator, and a huge work called ‘Panopticon’ in Gallery 3A, which the artist made with his video artist son, Fairuz Sulaiman.

Assignment 2

DIGITAL ART AND CULTURE

· Study the Digital Art and Culture festival

Define Festival

Digital Art and Culture festival or known as DA+C is a great and brilliant program with the vision for Malaysia’s creative economy by positioning Penang as the center or ‘Creative Digital Hub’ in South-East-Asia. This festival is a three days event that allows visitors to experience themselves in interpretations through interactive digital art. These specific works will celebrate Suffolk’s history and make it as interactive cultural world.

Objective of the Festival

There were two main objectives in this event. Firstly is to engage and excite the public about learning the local history and culture. Secondly, this event was created to extend the life of analogue-based history into digital data and interpretations. In advance, the entire local artist who involved in that event or festival decided to interpret their idea to explain about history and culture by using new media technology such as interactive application, installation art, audio visual performance, live visual and audio performance.

Details of the Festival

Digital Festival and Culture feature projects are the interactive artworks and video mapping projection. They are educational-tools that are disguised as media entertainment. All the interactive art project and pieces which are installed in selected rooms will be explored a facet of Suffolk’s past or Georgetown’s history. For example, the user can interact with characters from Penang’s past like Captain Francis Light. The video projection will bring the audience back into Light’s time by resurrecting the characters and events and that took place in the house. The video projection project is set to culminate the whole story of Suffolk House by including the architecture.

· Examine the art projects presented

(MOTIOFIXO! logo)

Project Details

Team Project: MOTIOFIXO!

Type of Installation: Video Projection Mapping

Title of the project: The Story of Suffolk House

Project Description

Video Mapping will be used to tell the story about Suffolk House through creative way by combination of animation and video montage used to re-create scenes in history. Beginning with the plot of land that Suffolk House rests on, the audience itself will witness the different stages of the house from its glory period in the 1800’s abandonment, deterioration and to its present state of conversation.

How Do They Utilize New Media

MOTIOFIXO! is a team of young energetic designers specializing in Visual Communication. In order to gain an extremely ideas for something that can make all the audience feel amaze with their project, they used a video projection mapping to express their understanding on history of the Suffolk House. In this projection mapping, they attempt to make the audience feel the emotional, historical and massive surrounding of the Suffolk House. They tried to make the audience understood on what are they doing in this project by rearranged back the history from the beginning of the Georgetown’s past stories. The arrangement of the project was very brilliant by using a great projector to project their video mapping to the Suffolk House itself, the sound system was very great and because of that all the audience can feel their surrounding just like in year 1800.

(exact building of the projection)

What Way Does It Enhance the Artist Concept

In my opinion, the concept of this project was very brilliant because they not only used a video mapping to explain or to express the history of Suffolk House but they also put a big effort by putting a voice over to make the project can be more understood by the audience. It means that whenever the audience can’t understand much about the video mapping, the voice over will help them out to make sure that the video mapping was full of story that can interpret how the Suffolk House begins with. This project was undeniable and very good piece but in the other things, the video mapping will become more epic and great if they try to put more information and that can makes the video projection mapping is much more longer in terms of duration of the project so the audience will gain more experiences on that project.

How Do Artist Use New Media Technology to Convey Their Artistic Concept

In this project, they have brilliant ideas to apply New Media Technology in their project by using projector and the video montage will directly project to the building that they have been doing their research for which is Suffolk House. If they used an old media to explain and to make an audience understand about history of that house, the audience might as well get bored and they can’t even feel the environment of the building when it was built in 1800. They came out with the idea of this project is to make the audience know about history of the Suffolk House itself and attempt to make they understand by showing the video montage and also a voice over that the team have just made. Besides that, by using the video projection mapping, this project can attract more audience to see and to feel the projection environment by their self and not just by hearing or reading information about the Suffolk House. Combination of a video montage, voice over and information is a very great project in information-based project. They figure out about the stage of this projection was very great concept because the audience will be more satisfy to see the video montage in a bigger stage. If this projection was project to the small stage, the environment, feeling and surrounding will be not the same compared to the bigger stage.

What Kind of Cultural, Humanistic Values is Conveyed, Achieved Through the Work?

In this project, I can see that they used a multiple type of style such as a very old environment that we can see the beginning of the Suffolk House was made by wood and the roof was made by palm fronds. We also can see the handwriting of the agreement by Francis Light and Sultan Kedah which is Sultan Abdullah was from old generation fonts in that time. Anglo-Indian Georgian who was the one changing the architecture of the Suffolk House and because of that the culture and humanistic at that time were also changed because of the development of that area. After Anglo-Indian Georgia build up the Suffolk House back, the people and the culture were like living their life in happiness and peaceful before World War begin. After the World War two, Suffolk House and the whole environment including the culture become mess up and no one going to take care of the Suffolk House building anymore because they all still scared and trauma about the World War two even though the war has declare to stop it. With the trusted that Penang State gain on that building, they build back the Suffolk House in conjunction with the State Government, HSBC Bank, investor and business cooperation.

(video projection mapping)

Selected Project in Petrosains

Project/Installation in Petrosains

Project Title:

The Dark Ride

Venue:

Entrance of Petrosains

Details:

- the Dark Ride will be at the beginning of our journey in Petrosains

-the shape of the Dark Ride is like an oil drop

-this ride brought us in a dark and some sort like ambient through the rainforest of Malaysia

-this ride will go through to the video display depicting Malaysia's transformation

(the dark ride)

Personal Review/Comment/Suggesttion

-in my experience of Dark Ride was extremely great

-a long way to go through in this ride, user can see a lot of installation or artwork there

For example

(multi-screen)

Comment

-in my opinion, this multiscreen would be more great and awesome if they applied a bigger monitor which is now its only around 14 inch-

-the screen shows only the face of Malaysian citizen, it can be more great and interesting if they combine it with the building in Malaysia which is very beautiful and modern

Other Example

(installation)

Details

-in a way of the Dark Ride, we can see also a projection in forest

-at the projection, there are several butterfly in that projection

-the ambient sound of the projection was very nice and strong

Personal Comment

-in my opinion, the projection and installation was very good and great.

-but it will be more great if the projection can be interact with the butterfly and not just randomly fly here and there

Unseen World

Microphone & Ice Cream Cone

When I am in the middle of imaging something that is unable to be seen by our eyes or in a specific word is unseen world, i can see that a microphone is look alike an ice-cream

(Microphone)

(ice-cream cone)

We can see the proportion, size and the shape is almost the same. The different is a microphone is a sound input while ice-cream cone is a food or desert.

Assignment 1 : Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci

Biography

Name:

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci

Date of Birth:

15 April 1452

Capability:

-had a keen and quick mind that led him to invent something

-gentleman who loved animals and despised war

-greatest painters of Italian Renaissance

Profession:

-painter

-sculpture

-architect

-musician

-inventor

-writer

-scientiest

-mathematician

-engineer

-cartograher

-geologist

-anatomist

Inventions of Leonardo Da Vinci

Natural Science

- the effects of light on solids were achieved by trail and error. Pierro della Francesca having accurate art and science knowledge of the subject.

Medicine

- he has been through to draw the human body from life to memorize the muscles, tendons and visible subcutaneous structure and to familiarize himself with the mechanics of the various parts of the skeletal and muscular structure.

Engineering

- he utilized leverage and cantilevering pulleys. cranks, gears including angle gears and rack pinion gears, parallel leakage, momentum and the aero foil.

(pinion gear)

War Machine

- there is an array of war machines in his notebooks which is include a tank to be propelled by two men powering crank shaft.

(drawing of the war machine by Leonardo)

Flying Machine

- the desire to fly is expressed in the man studies and drawings.His journal contain a detailed study of the flight of birds and several designs for wing based in structure upon those of bats which he described as being less heavy because of the impenetrable nature of membrane.

(the study of a flight)

(drawing of flying machine by Leonardo)

Leonardo Da Vinci's Painting

Title:

Annuciation

Details:

-this artwork was created and produced in 1472 and 1474

-the painting was originaly housed in the Convent of Morte Oliveto outside Florence

-the painting was influence of Verrocchio on the young Leonardo. The sculpture, draperies and the forms of the Virgin's reading table which call to mind Verrocchio's tomb for Peiro de' Medici

-the angle holds a madonna lily, a symbol of Mary's virginity in flight. When the Annuciation came to the Uffizi in 1867, it was ascribed to Domenico, who was Leonardo

Leonardo : History.Life.Profession.Cultural

Got his start as an artist in year 1469. His father apprenticed him to the folded workshop of Verrocchio. He quickly surpassed Verrocchio and by the time he was in his earlier twenties he was downright famous.

Leonardo tried to create faithful, brilliant renditions of life with perspective and other elements. In a cultural side previously dominated by highly figurative and downright strange religious paintings, Leonardo;s desired to paint things with human being and realistic method.

Project Selected in Petrosains

Project Title: The Dark Ride

Description:

-The Dark Ride will be at the beginning of our journey in Petrosains.

-The shape of The Dark Ride is like an oil drop

-This ride brought us in a dark and some sort like ambient through the rainforest of Malaysia

-This ride will go through a video display depicting Malaysia's transformation

Self Opinion and Comment of The Dark Ride

- In my experience of riding the Dark Ride was extremely great.

-A long way to go through with this ride, user can see a lot of installation or artwork there.

For Example:

*Multi LCD Screen

Personnel Comment

-in my opinion, this multiscreen would be more great and awesome if they applied a bigger monitor/screen/LCD which is now it is only around 14 inch.

-the screen shows only the face of Malaysian citizen, it can be more interesting if they combine it whith the picture of a building in Malaysia which is very beautiful and modern.

*Projection Rainforest

Personnel Comment

-in a way of the Dark Ride, we can also see a projection of an environment of forest.

-at the projection, there are several and a few of butterfly in that installation.

-the ambient sound of the project was very nice and strong.

-in my opinion, the projection and installation was very good and great.

-it will be more great if the projection can be interact with the butterfly and not just randomly fly here and there.

Mind Map of New Media

This week all student who taking New Media Technology subject required to create one mind map of what is New Media is all about. So here is my mind map that i created by using Adobe Illustrator.

(mind map of New Media)