The real title of this installation is Exploration Television Addiction on Media Elements. So the shortcut will be “EXTVADDON MEDIA” installation.

Upper View

Side View

I dint have scanner so I decide to do my installation draft with Photoshop.

Draft Ideas

I have a habit on listing down my ideas on a recycle paper (behind grocery receipt) and throw it away.

Roughs Mind Map

Complete Mind Map

Thank to Han Wei for scanning my mind maps.

The concept on my installation is simple. In the Introduction or beginning of my installation, I was planning to show a video clip on TV screen. In the video, it will show the audience how a TV addicted individual looks likes.

Why the video clip is important in the installations? It is to show to the audience on how to identify an individual who is addicted to TV and show how they behave. In my installation there will be a set of TV, sofa, remote control and a photo frame.

Here its goes, whenever a user sits in on the sofa, the television will took 5 seconds to be broken (technical distortion with sound and some graphic elements).

After 10 seconds passed by, automatically a picture will be taken and the user image whoever sit on the sofa will appear on the hanging photo frame. Why the picture is needed? It is because, still images is just like a story boards that represent a moving still images that’s its inside the TV. With the images they can eventually tell the audience or user about a story of how, where and when a TV addiction begin.

How the users interact with the installation? There will be a remove control placed in front of the sofa, whenever the user touched the remote control, immediately the TV screen will change to a numbers of flying text which carries the message of what people though of TV addiction.

I finally found out that some of my articles I didn’t label it. No wonder there is missing articles.

This week to do-list:

1. SRI Chapter 3 submissions (Monday)
2. DM poster design (require half day)
3. DM 30 second video (require 2 days to complete)
4. DM Presentation (Thursday)
5. Exam (Thursday) require 1 week preparations
6. Update DM blog
7. Prepare SRI survey questions

Faster finish all to do-list, i want watch televisions.

After searching through hundreds of web and reading through articles for days, I finally found some interesting articles by expert to support my though.

According to Donna Michelle with reference to a research of James Lull, people do sometimes prefer audio as background music that it is a good creator of atmosphere. “By rendering a constant and predictable assortment of sounds and pictures which instantly creates a busy atmosphere” said Lull. People who feel lonely may find that sound background may fill up their loneliness.

Television can be used to entertain guests in the house when there is no alternative as well become their conversation topic. Certain viewers feeling guilty when expose to television because viewers find that watching tv is easily available if compare going to cinema.

In the Donna Michelle's article, television is also a form of escapism form our real-life situations and to approach relaxation. This may help certain individual to release frustrations and emotions. “Filling in time” said McQuail.

For more details:
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Students/dzj9401.html


Influence of Television

An article by Norman Herr a professor of science education had stated some viewer dependency symptoms:

1. An indiscriminate in viewing
2. Out of control when viewing
3. Angry with oneself and feeling miserable for watching too much
4. Sedative to TV

Article Link
http://www.csun.edu/science/health/docs/tv&health.html#influence


Human Emotions toward TV

Children are more likely to obese when they are exposing to TV for more than 4 hours per day indicate from a study in Journal of the American Medical Association. TV violence may lead to increasing children and teen’s aggression and they may become less awareness on suffering of others.

Articles Link
http://agebb.missouri.edu/news/ext/showall.asp?story_num=4770&iln=43

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1.I need more time for my content development to read up the entire long long research articles to make conclusion. Its feel like reading a tick book in one day.


2. I need a scanner to scan my mind maps and upload it. Yeah ....I am shy to ask my housemates.


3. I need to complete my 30 sec video artist impression and hope will complete it by this weekend.

Ckeckered Concept

I choose checkered as the concept design because of the comfortable texture to set distinctive mood. Moreover the patterns look more inviting and more power. The patterns possess a desire that something truly unique at the forefront of every individual. I found checkered concept is attributes to my installation. In the history of television, color bars were used as test pattern for most video. The color bars have repeated pattern so I link it with checkered patterns.

FYP 1




FYP 2

Special thank to Norman who shared this software Tom’s Planner on preparing Gantt chart. I found out this software was easily to create and it has friendly navigation for new user. For the individual who did not have experience in using excel (just like me), I would encourage them using this software, it only took 3 minutes to complete the tutorial. It’s free and no download require.

Keyboard Hacking Tutorial

Self Promotion - Installation Documentation 2006 from Christopher O'Leary on Vimeo.

In this application, the audience applause the viewer who had enters the hot spot. When the viewer leaves the hot spot, the audience waits quietly. I was thinking of setting up a living room, in the middle there lays a television. Whenever viewer sits on the sofa (hot spot) the television instantly broken and error appear on the screen as well as the sound.

Interactive Installation

Adjust Your Set (2008) from Mark Bell on Vimeo.

Mr.Kok Yong had introduced “Error as Art” installation during Digital Media class. I found it very interesting and it’s a brilliant idea to imply in my digital installation. These video had pretty familiar thing with the error as art. The installation had chosen television to producing reinterpretations of the error as music art. Combination of series error tones of television had captured the beautiful sound and had made new elements to explore in digital world.

UTV from Rob Duarte on Vimeo.

"The UTV installation begins with an open presentation of the technology behind the television broadcast. A laptop computer connects to a display, which shows the real-time workings of the scripts and patches that gather Twitter feeds from people in the Chicago area. A camcorder then converts the image into a ready-for-TV signal and finally leads to a UHF transmitter that broadcasts the content to any television sets in the area. The corkboard above this makeshift TV station contains my notes, sketches and observations about the technical process, comparisons between the sociopolitical histories of Internet and broadcast TV media, and the re-appropriation of the obsolete medium of analog TV for the purposes of broadcasting local community-produced content" said Rob Duarte.

Retrieve from http://www.robduarte.com/utv.html#

Images shown the back scene of the installation where a camcorder and UHF transmitter were hidden.

Text carries certain meaning and certain feeling such as humiliation, advice and even hope. Reading text, as when watching television, people increase understanding on what the message try to convey. Looking at the text on television, people know that they are not looking at television but meaning of text carry. Imagine there is a platform for people to expression their feeling on television addiction and the expression appear on the TV surface. Maybe the expression may reach certain individual who addicted to television and some how realize what they are up to.

Art Installation - TVs in Parking Lot - Asbury Park, NJ - May 2009 from Michael Pilmer on Vimeo.

Here is another error installation using television as medium

Yahowa Stackridge - Installation from Media In Motion-Documentations on Vimeo.

Monitors are piled up - tilted and upside down - as an unreguralary heap. The images consist of text fragments, basic graphical elements and technical distortions, edited extremely fast as a pulsating overflow of colours and forms. The music uses feedbacks, low vibrations, high peaks, noise and staccato rhythms.

Retrieve from http://www.vimeo.com/4548447

QuadraTV from Arno Scheper on Vimeo.

QuadraTV is a quadraphonic audiovisual installation.
Televisions are being played on as if it were music instruments.
The basic concept of this is that analogue sound signals are fed to the TV’s,
the TV’s treat the signals as video input, thus converting the sound into light.
The light being emitted from the screen is than picked-up by light sensors and
after losing some information and gaining some noise the signals are converted back into sound, closing the circle.

Retrieve from http://www.vimeo.com/3336374

Topic:
Television Addiction

1.0 Introduction
Addiction is a characteristic of spending large amount of time on a subject and using it more regularly that lead to out of control. It can be know as habit to involve or occupied on subject. Once it stared and can’t stop doing it. Television is a medium for telecommunication on most household, business as well as for education purpose. It is a device shaped like a black box which receives electrical signals of moving images and sound. The word “television” is derived from Greek tele: far and Latin visio; sight. Television addiction is a person who experiences an uncontrollable continues watching for long period of time.

2.0 Background
People spend too much time watching television for some simple reasons, that is either for entertainment or killing free time. It’s relaxing and pleasant distraction from real life and is a great stress reliever or help to forget whatever people face. Watching TV is a difficult habit to break; like a drug. Human brain doesn’t require much thinking or use of imagination on television, if compared to outdoor activities such as football, it require skill and thinking.

Computer games, internet games, psp, and others games had become a daily life style on most of the students of all age. Game is now a major source of fun and entertainment for most of the people. Students played games are for relaxation in order to release neither stress nor spending their free time on it. Once playing games is out of control, students tense to spend most of their time on games and has displaced friend, family and even outdoor activities.

Students who are addicted to games will keep themselves in darkened room, conquering new worlds, killing monsters, and showing off their games skill. Some students were influence by their friends or love ones to play games. Gamers will begin to adapt a habit of not going to bath for days or without eating proper meal. Student’s EQ getting low and their life going to ruin. These behaviors bother a lot of people.

For examples:
“For the first week, I didn’t go to sleep”, said student A
“I dropped out of school for a semester and was feeling really low. My parents told me that if I continued to play games, I’d become a garbage man. It was totally insulting”, said student B.

The game addiction symptoms including falling behind in school and lack concentration not only on work, but in everything they work on it. Facing anger, low self-esteem, ignorance, depression and feeling low most of the time.

Symptoms:
- Headaches
- Lost control on computer or any type of games usage.
- Lying about game usage.
- Become obsesses when not plating games.
- Irregular sleep
- Dry eyes
- Failure on personal hygiene
- Falling asleep in class
- Most of the time spend on games
- Not Keeping up with assignments

Defining Game Addiction
Time spend on playing games reaches a limit that begin to harm or give effect on our life. The games had replaced relationship, friends and family. The addicted person feel good when comes interact with games, when away from games it will cause moodiness.
Why addicted to games?
Have fun with games can be very challenging. Games give fun to people of all ages. While people doing other thing like working, their mind was thinking about games while they are busy with their own things. They will choose to be at home playing games than out door activities.

People become addictive to games because they are likely to be challenge. They like to showing off their skill and always wanted to be the best at what they are playing. Games give them the feeling of creating people own world. To escape from real world and facing reality, games is only the choice for them and it’s good for people to escape time.

Problem
Watching TV can never be a true substitute for real-life experiences. Heavy TV watchers tend to be people who feel anxious or lonely and watching TV provides a break from negative thoughts or ruminations.People can quickly escape these feelings by viewing, as a result of many hours spent viewing television over many years, some people may become in spending time alone, entertaining themselves, or even in directing their own attention.

Objectives:
1. Moving away from the addiction requires the physical acts of turning off the tube and walking away from the set.

Problems
People with low general knowledge are easy to pick up. It is not that they have low memory, it’s is the matter that they aren’t care about their surrounding or ignorance of the current issue. In difference point of view, maybe some people doesn’t interested in reading articles or books.

Objectives:
To motivate or pursuit people to obtain several general knowledge through interactive ways.
To encourage people of all ages to learn about current issue, this may guide them in their daily life.

Facts


Installations

Problems:
Pollution can affect our health in many ways with both short-term and long-term effects. Different groups of individuals are affected by air pollution in different ways. Some individuals are much more sensitive to pollutants than are others. Young children and elderly people often suffer more from the effects of air pollution. People with health problems such as asthma, heart and lung disease may also suffer more when the air is polluted. The extent to which an individual is harmed by air pollution usually depends on the total exposure to the damaging chemicals, i.e., the duration of exposure and the concentration of the chemicals must be taken into actions.

Objectives
To inspire students about the beauty of mother nature.
To encourage people to protect nature for prevent pollution.
To educate students the nature behavior.

Target Audience
All levels of students.

Installations

Background
Entomophobia is a fear of insect; it was also know as insect phobia. Nowadays most of the household may faces insect intruder. It can’t be avoided.

Problems
People who face this experience may feel anxiety although they know the insect faces no treat to them. Most of the sufferer may try to avoid them as far as they can. Some people may face shortness of breath, sweating, shock, rapid breathing, feeling sick and other symptoms. Entomophobia can disturb normal life like work, relationship, emotion and school.

Objectives
To improve or reduce the feeling of fear on insect.
To determine the symptoms of entomophobia.
Provide courage to get close to insects.

Little Bugger - Preview [iPhone] from CreativeApplications.Net on Vimeo.

• Become a Short time Vegan through a Study on Mistreat Animal for Human Food.
• Using Interactive Installation to Encourage Students to Appreciate Nature: Study of Ignorance about Mother Earth on Human.
• Implementation of Learning General Knowledge through Digital Installation.
• A Study on Television Addiction
• Entomophobia

Dear Readers,

It’s my honor to welcome you to MMUdm2009 blogspot. As part of Faculty of Creative Multimedia, all of us at Digital Media (Delta) understand the importance of presenting messages in new technologies. With a variety of digital media; audio, image, video, animation, and text to choose from, DM is dedicating to experiment it! Find out what’s new in our Final Year Project.

We may enhance and develop information from "variety of disciplines through art, new media, theater, dance, psychology, media studies, music, communication, IT etc", Kok Yong.

We look forward to venture into a real digital world.

Do continue exploring this blog to learn more about Digital Media.

Background:
Numbers of non-human animals were killed each day around the world for their dairy, meat, egg and fur. They were treated like a meat machine without any humanity involve. Animals were stayed conscious through the entire process of slaughtering and they were left as to bleed to death. When animals were slaved, they were still struggle for their life. Some were abused in violence way before their body torn apart.

Problems:
Numbers of non-human animals were killed each day around the world for their dairy, meat, egg and fur. They were treated like a meat machine without any humanity involve. Animals were stayed conscious through the entire process of slaughtering and they were left as to bleed to death. When animals were slaved, they were still struggle for their life. Some were abused in violence way before their body torn apart.

Objectives:
To encourage people not to support animal products by reduce it usage.
To create awareness about mistreat animal for their products.
To encourage people adapt short vegan life as to reduce animal products as well as for their health.

Target Audience
Targeted to adults who are not aware or not concern about animal abuse and who still support animal products

Motivations
“Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind”.
- Albert Einstein -

“Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experience on, or use for entertainment”.
- Peta.org -

Installation