sunghun_thesis

Final Result

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Final Images 40 x60 inch Digital Print

55 River Drive South, Jersey City, NJ, 03/26/09-05:30 ~ 03/27/09-08:55

214 W, 29^th ST, New York, 04/03/09-15:06 ~ 04/06/09-03:41

55 River Drive South, Jersey City, NJ, 03/26/09-05:30 ~ 03/27/09-08:55

135 Plymouth St, Brooklyn, 04/01/09-22:32 ~ 04/02/09-20:20

Problems & Tests

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I tested the outcome of color variation by changing the angle of the blinds to see what kind of images would work best to express the concept of “compressed time.”

Test One.
The first test was conducted to find a optional viewer position different settings that control the directions where the light source.

Test Two.
When I was shooting the wall to focus on the changing colors of light at different time settings, I set the position of the camera following different colors of light. I tested the color of the blinds with different amounts of compressing and experiment with how to express the movement of shadows. The light is straight by nature and it makes the same shape as the object, but time compressing makes curved shadows which cannot see a just snapshot.

Test Three.
In order to make an interesting view, I set the blinds in unusual places. The audience may not notice the size and location of the blinds, although it somehow gives a little strange feeling when people see the final images. Because it looks just regular blind but it located some strange place like middle of a room not an in front of windows.

Test Four.
When people first see my images, they describe like what pictures of color strips. I decided remove the mini blind which create the look of strips to experiment with wall texture. It can surprise audiences when they realize this is a picture of a wall manipulated through time compress. To maximize the perception of beauty, I took a picture of a white wall which emphasizes colors reflected throughout the day. I also tested different amount of pictures which taken by time order.

Working Method

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The camera shutter is set to release once a minute. Also aperture and shutter speeds are changed manually depending on the brightness of the light source because the automatic setting makes image too bright at night. For the automatic shutter system, I used 2 different shutter releases. The first one is handmade camera shutter system I using Arduino and knife blades for a shutter button. The second one is a programmable camera shutter release. When I set the camera where it can capture a wireless internet signal, I used WIFI for transmitting the image file from the camera to a computer. Otherwise, I used high a capacity memory card. I took pictures for a three-day-period to achieve the desirable colors of light.

In order to capture various colors, I chose to work on both on clear and cloudy days with the camera set in the same place. After gathering the images, I tested different numbers of images and different algorithms for not only expressing the concept efficiently but also in an attempt to create the ideal visual effect. The algorithms are based on replacing pixels by the time difference. I changed a few things to create a painting effect but always followed the time order of the images.

Small Window Blind

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I customize a small blind and put it on a tripod to change the angle and height of blind depending on the situation.

Shutter system

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System I

This system is for taking a picture automatically by time setting. I used a shutter release part in a camera. There are 3 input lines in a camera. If 2 of lines are connected, camera focuses the view and it takes a picture when 3 lines are connected. Instead of using buttons, I made a shutter using a blade of knife with servo motor.

step1

http://sunghunicm.blogspot.com/2007/11/camera-system-step1.html

step2

http://sunghunicm.blogspot.com/2007/11/camera-system-step2.html

step3

http://sunghunicm.blogspot.com/2007/11/camera-system-step3.html

System II

This is a programmable shutter released, Canon TC80N3 timer remote, from canon. I used this cable for final work

How to make: structure

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Concept Diagram

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Concept Diagram

The blinds reflects my personality. They work as a filter of my eyes. I am drawn to the perception of beauty as expressed though the compress of time.

Resources and Scenario

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List of resources
- High res digital camera : Canon 40D or 5D or 5D Mark2
- Vertical grip for support more battery, or make power cable instead of battery.
- Wide & bright lens ( for indoor shooting )
- Shutter system: arduino, motor, buttons.

Interview scenario
1. Contact people of friends or relative of friends.
2. Visit them at early in the morning.
3. Talk about project and doing interview about 'time' and 'regular day of life'
4. Set up a camera.
5. Leave the house.
6. After sunset or next day, get back the camera.

For my thesis work, I don’t need user scenario.
My work open to every one, and I don’t expect any reaction from audience.

Why window blind.

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Why window blind?

1. Personal implication

A window blind reflects my personality. I'm not a socialized person. I prefer to stay alone and spend time thinking by myself. When I stay behind the window blind, I feel comfortable because it gives me a feeling of hiding from the outside while it allows me to see what is happening out there without being recognized by others. It makes me feel safe.

Blinds can be opened and shuttered. It also shows my personality in the sense that I easily shutter down my mind when I don’t want to be involved in certain situations or relationships.

The actual size of the blind is 23.0" W x 15.0" H although the final image is portrayed in a larger size. I intentionally chose a relatively small size window blind which is actually about the size of my computer monitor. It represents my subjective view toward the world since my computer monitor is my window to society where I spend most of my private time. I always look at the world with my unique perception as window blind also filters out the light as much as it allows.

From technical point of view, the small blinds reinforce a short focusing range which creates the abstract images of my project. It also leads to move the focus from outside view of window to the colors of light.

2. Symbolic implication

A window blind tells a lot about the person who lives in the room. Blinds can be always opened, closed or even partially opened with certain angles. They might be clean or dirty. By looking closely at blinds in a room, we can assume a lot about the owner’s personality.

In my case, I change the angle of my blinds to block sun light as soon as I wake up every morning. After a few minutes, I open the blinds and window to let fresh air into my room. Around noon, I close half of the window blinds to block the sun light. I open the window blinds to see the sunset sky in late afternoon. I open my window blinds only about 15 inches around night time to block the inside light and also to see outside. I like to see outside at night while people cannot see inside of my room.

There are reasons that window blinds attracted my attention to use as a medium for this project. Window blinds are not only used to block the sun light coming into the room but also to block people from looking inside of private space. More interestingly, person inside of the room controls how much he or she wants to be exposed. It also allows managing what he or she wants to see outside. Although a window blind is a substantially important object in a room, people rarely recognize the existence.

Content samples

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Documentation about routine day of people.

AS a part of work, title make people think about context inside of picture.

246w 24th street, New York, NY, / a day of Daisy
30 Newport PKway, Jersey City / 14 hours of John.
55 River Drive South, Jersey City / 2 day of Sunghun

Graphical representation

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Graphical representation of the prototype's form / structure

Concept Diagram

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THESIS CONCEPT / PROJECT DESCRIPTION

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THESIS CONCEPT / PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Overview / Thesis Statement

Through my past projects, I focused on expressing my emotional states by using the medium of the colors of light related to time change. This thesis project, however, goes and step farther and attempt to connect audiences through commonly shared emotions such as loneliness and gloominess that are continuously narrated through images taken over a couple of days.

The window blind symbolizes my eyes that filter light coming through and create beautiful shades of color. By using this symbolism, I wanted to express my own perception of beauty that is connected to a concept of time passing.

Goals

My goal is to make an art piece that impacts people with concepts of honesty, brilliance, and beauty.

Audience, Location, Interaction Time

I don't have a specific target audience. My work is designed to be placed in a gallery and is going to be seen by various visitors. I respect the audience’s personal tastes that my work can appear to be impressive or can also be ignored. I prefer a quite gallery environment that allows viewers to fall into my work by thinking deeply.

Core Features and Functionality

My project only focuses on “Look and feel.” It will be just hung on a gallery wall for viewers to look at and feel freely. The technological component of the project is not given any significant meaning. However, I want to stress the point that I used a camera in positive way as the best medium of recording time passing.

Success Measures

Before I expect any audience’s reaction, I put more meaning on personal achievement. My work has to be able to move myself first since I am the first audience exposed to my art work. The most important success measure of this project is “honesty” and how honestly I expressed my intention of creating this art. I believe my art work can move audience’s minds if it does for me.

related works

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Atta Kim

Atta Kim, ON-AIR Project, DMZ Series, The Eastern Front, 8 Hours, 2005, © Atta Kim

Atta Kim, ON-AIR Project, DMZ Series, The Western Front, 4 Hours, 2003,

Atta Kim, ON-AIR Project, New York Series, Times Square, 8 Hours, 2005

AK: There are over 100,000 soldiers from South and North Korea facing each other across the DMZ line. Yet, the DMZ itself looks more peaceful than anywhere in this world. Within the face-off of these two powers, the DMZ stands like the eye of the storm, quiet and peaceful. It is a cruel irony.

AK: Long exposure is an important concept—everything eventually disappears. It serves as the physical process for the “On-Air” project. “Everything disappears” doesn’t just mean gradual disappearance, but extends to examining the precious value of individuals and of history. A Korean proverb says, “Know its worth once it’s gone.”

Nicole Pasulka’s interview with photographer Atta Kim.
<http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/galleries/the_museum_project.php>

plan

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relative works

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Michle wesely

www.wesely.org

master of long exposer.

2.4. - 9.4.2004

Tulpen

2006

The long-exposure photographs document the blossoming, growth and finally the slow fading of bouquets of tulips. The length of exposure was determined according to the relative bouquet. If one had faded after five days, the exposure was ended. If it lasted for seven days, so did the exposure. The motif took over the control from Michael Wesely by determining the length of exposure. Although the process of blossoming and fading seems to remain the same, the photos differ surprisingly from each other. In one case, the tulip`s blossoming may dominate, but in another, it might be the fading stage that is recorded in the photograph. The natural process of blossom and decay retains its individual significance, which would not be as evident in reality. The photographs actually show us more than we would be able to see in nature.

9.8.2001 - 2.5.2003 The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Open Shutter Projekt 2001 - 2004

Weselys Langzeitbelichtungen gehören zu einer Fotografie, die ein neues Bild des Urbanen entwirft, in dem Unschärfe eine bedeutende Rolle spielt. Seine Langzeitbelichtung widerspricht der herkömmlichen Vorstellung des Fotografischen. Denn sie setzt den Gedanken des Fotos als festgestelltem Augenblick der Bedeutsamkeit ausser Kraft Sie stellt sich der Aufgabe zu visualisieren, was keinen Augenblick hat und nicht gesehen, sondern nur im Bild durch räumliche Überlagerung von vielen Augenblicken sichtbar gemacht werden kann. Diese Langzeitfotos sind kreativer Formalismus, der den Anspruch auf Dokumentation gar nicht aufkommen lässt. Ihre Kombination aus realistischen räumlichen Details und phantastischer temporaler Konstruktion lässt die Banalitt des Realismus nach einer Geschichte von 150 Jahren realistischer Fotografie empfinden. Benutzen die Serien von Llorens eine ungewöhnliche Fototechnik als Mittel der dokumentarischen Fotografie, um Zeugnis vom Verlust abzulegen, ist Weselys Langzeitfotografie radikaler: sie macht die Zeit als Medium des Verschwindens sowie das Verschwinden der linearen Zeit selbst sichtbar. Sie schafft keine Bilder einer moralischen Klage oder Anklage, sondern gehört in ein anthropologisches Projekt, das in weiteren Zeitrumen denkt und der Moral die Fundamente liefert. Denken wir an den Rahmen der Stadtfotografie, so lässt sie sich als eine Technik verstehen, einen Zusammenhang des Urbanen zu entwerfen, der sich nicht von Identitätspolitik und Sinnsuche einfangen lässt.

5.4.1997 - 3.6.1999 Potsdamer Platz, Berlin

Potsdamer Platz

1997 - 1999

With up to two-year long exposures Michael Wesely documented the construction being done at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin between 1997 and 1999. The project was commissioned by DaimlerChrysler. The images were taken from five different camera positions and transform the chronological sequences of the construction activity into one simultaneous action, whereby an infinite number of individual moments overlap until they form a complex structure of fragments of reality. Before and after fuse together in that the previously, undeveloped horizon is still visible through the newly constructed buildings. This confuses our visual understanding. The massive constructions seem almost transparent, yet the rays of sun in the sky documenting the various seasonal positions of the sun, gain a surprising level of materiality.These fascinating and detailed documents of the events at Europes most prominent construction site were presented together with New York Verticals under the motto Iconografias Metropolitanas at the XXV. So Paulo Biennial in 2002.

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window blind

UNTITLED 42x29 In, digital print, Processing, 2008

Candy?

• Untitled (portrait of Ross in LA), 1991 - Felix Gonzalez-Torres

• 175 lbs Fruit Flasher Candy, size variable

stories

• personal experience

• space, location

• data

2. personal statement

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Blinds can be opened and shuttered. It also shows my personality in the sense that I easily shutter down my mind when I don’t want to be involved in certain situations or relationships.

1. thesis abstract

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"window_contemlative" is the image reflecting my subjective perception of beauty of time by using blind as a symbol of my eyes. During the time frame of three days, pictures were taken every minute which produced 4324 pieces of images. The final image is composed of compressed pixel lines that are extracted from each image by the order of time. Depending on the color variation of light, the number of pictures that are going to be extracted to create one final image varies. Also, the number of pixels is calculated based on the total number of pictures composing the final image. The final image reflects the idea of perception of beauty since the final outcome is based on images I decided to put as parts

of the image I want to show.