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HMsEx WK5

Class reflection This week's course is mainly to try different directions and get feedback. We did a field test in the capitol. I made two mockups of different styles. According to the feedback from instructors and classmates, everyone thinks the second one is better, and the flow on the wall makes the viewer feel comfortable. The instructor suggested that the colours could be changed to better suit my theme. I still need to do a few more site visits because the colours I had planned didn't come out the way I expected them to. I also found another problem: the audience cannot directly experience the hypnotic theme I want to express, which is the main problem that gives me headaches.

Research a) academic In an article on the colour preferences of participants with high or low hypnotic sensitivity, I learned that individuals with higher hypnotic sensitivity prefer red and that some of their hypnotic aspects lead to their preference for black and yellow. This is contrary to what I thought. I need to rethink the use of colour. b) creative practice I came across an art piece on YouTube that featured a hypnotic swirling kaleidoscope of crazy colours. This is a fantastic piece of video, I haven't seen another kaleidoscope as dramatic or engaging as this one, the dynamic back pulls and dives are truly eye-catching. But it is the effect presented by video. c) technical I still spent some time watching tutorials on the Pharos official website this week. I take into account that my project doesn't require much stylistic change. Just repeat the swirls to create a kaleidoscope-like effect. For example, use 2d wave. The technical difficulty is mainly in line with the music.

Project progress This week I planned the project and made a rough timeline. Week 5 presents demos to identify viable visuals. Week 6 Scripting. Week 7 and Week 8 Complete as many projects as possible. Milestone presentation in week 9. Week 10 and week 11 continued to complete the project. Final adjustments are made in week 12. Week 13 final presentation. The music I chose was 3 minutes and 40 seconds in length. But since my theme is hypnosis, the style shift in visual effects doesn't need much. But a colour change is also required. The difficulty is how to extend the calm emotions to the level of hypnosis.

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HMsEx WK4

1. Class reflection This week's class has a Project Proposal Presentation. I saw the wonderful display of ideas from the students. Based on class feedback, I realized that the difficulty of the project was how to transform calm into hypnosis. Because I want to achieve the purpose of hypnosis through calmness, but it is easy to digress, people may only feel calm and relaxed. 2. Research a) academic I did some research on how to differentiate calm from hypnosis. According to the survey, Highly hypnotizable people are those with the ability to focus attention totally on a task, to become imaginatively absorbed in it, and to entertain fantastic possibilities. When the audience is watching the work, they need the unity of music and colour to be better and make people focus. Now my thinking is time might make an animation to help people fulfil the fantasy possibilities. When I searched for hypnotic images and saw a lot of repetitive images like swirls, I realized that repetition can also make people feel hypnotized. b) creative practice I learned about a show called Hypnotic Show at the Guggenheim. The background sound is a man's low-pitched explanation. As the camera moves slowly, it will give people the illusion of being there. Also, I found the Hypnotizing YOU Through the Screen video on YouTube, and based on the feedback from the comments, I found that many people were hypnotized. Miraculously, I couldn't keep my eyes open either. c) technical This week I am still doing tutorials on the Pharos official website. Although I'm still not sure what specific functions will be used in the final project, the things I planned first will not be triggered by the outside world, but only follow the music to make the lights flash and change. In addition, the change of light needs to be soft and slow, which requires natural gradients in different tones to form transitions. 3. Project progress Based on class feedback, I re-clarified the concepts. My main difficulty is to hypnotize people with lights and music. According to the test at Capitol last week, I made more different lighting effects, because the presentation on the computer will be different from the reality. The instructor also suggested that I try different visual styles to find the most suitable presentation method for the theme.

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HMsEx WK3

This week's course introduces Music: not Impossible and lets everyone experience it in class. It's a pity that I didn't have the opportunity to experience it, but through observation, I found that when a person wears the vest, I observed that the light related to the vibration would light up along with the sound change. According to the feedback from the students, the degree of vibration experienced by the Music: not impossible vest is acceptable, similar to a massage. This gives me a way to showcase my work. But I didn't consider this method, because for the "Hypnotizing," I chose, Capitiol's lights would be a better choice. Because I hope that the audience will not be frightened and slowly enter a calm state.

From searching research on hypnosis, I found that the patterns that make people feel sleepy are repeated close lines, which create the feeling of vertigo. Also, I saw something called Hypnotizing Art in Motion on YouTube, and I found that the motion cycle uses a lot of circles or curves. Before doing this I didn't realize the variety of ways people can express this movement and make it so easy. Technically, I learned how to trigger in the Getting Started 6: Trigger video on Pharos' official YouTube, but I haven't figured out how to apply it to my project.

During the project-related work I've been doing this week, I've selected suitable copyright-free music as the background music for my lighting creations. I tried adding a little lighting effect to make a demo. During the field test at Capitiol, I found that the lighting I set was too bright to create a hypnotic experience. I realized that it is not realistic just to make it on the computer, and I need to conduct weekly field tests to ensure that the purpose of my project can be achieved.

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Hypnotizing

Fashion designer Iris van Herpen took inspiration from artist Anthony Howe's kinetic sculptures when creating this series of delicate and hypnotic garments for Paris Haute Couture Week. Light materials and light colors create a dreamy effect, while lines with small spacing give people a feeling of confusion and vertigo.

2. With his hypnotic room installations, renowned Austrian artist Peter Kogler transforms ordinary spaces and molds architecture into surreal environments for spectators.Although it is in a simple cubic space, the artist changes the density and curvature of the lines to make the space appear three-dimensional and has a sense of vertigo.

3. This installation art is divided into two parts, one part is the "dance" of water brought by the water waves generated by the audience's walking, and in the other area, a large water projection device is placed on top of these metal containers, which were designed by Lachlan Turczan The water "domesticated" by sound waves projects a dreamy and hypnotic effect. I can imagine lying on the couch under the unit watching the water ripple, feeling sleepy with the dim light.

4. The work I chose from Nick Thomm uses vivid colors, but because it is in a dark environment and has flowing animations, it is easy to think of flowing time. Thereby ignoring the concept of time and achieving the purpose of hypnosis.

5. “Memoria,” directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul (“Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives”), takes the attention to sound even further. The film flows at a glacial pace with minimal action and constructs the entirety of its plot, emotion, and personality around a recurring low-register, booming sound. As a viewer, I was simultaneously kept in a relaxed state by the slow, thoughtful cinematography and quiet, minimal sound ambiance, while also being extremely anxious by the unpredictable moments when that calm would be shattered by the sound of an explosion.

6. Anthony McCall, widely known for his ‘solid-light works’ — which he first experimented with in 1973 — generates volumetric forms composed of beams of projected light. The installation explores human perception through spatial audiovisual composition, exploring the boundaries between the material and the immaterial through autonomous installations and live performances. The resulting intuitive experience, a co-creation of artist and viewer, creates a hypnotic environment for the subconscious.

7. Visitors enter the space one at a time through an opening in the container floor. When viewers arrive indoors, they are completely surrounded by small sound-generating systems as thousands of paper sounds—creaks, whispers, rustles, and crackles—develop and fuse into an all-encompassing audio choreography. This reminds me of white noise, there are many sounds that can make people sleepy, and it is also a means of treating insomnia.

8. Boreal Halo is inspired by the Northern Lights in hand. Leroy built a white ring, 10 meters in diameter, that hovered above the ground and spun gently. As the structure rotates, open spaces are created where viewers can walk in and interact with the work from different angles. This device that slows down the perception of time and breaks down movement establishes a space that is both mysterious and hypnotic.

9. Polish artist Karolina Halatek’s work characteristically uses light to create experiential site-specific spaces that seamlessly incorporate visual, architectural, and sculptural elements. Seeing her work primarily as a catalyst for the experience. When people stand in her installations, a multi-sensory experience blends together, working together to perform hypnotic and psychedelic functions.

10. The artist designed a space where viewers can freely use props to create their own sensory experience or feel different finished white noises. In the middle of the pavilion, there is also a large, soft, long, spiral sofa, like a brain structure, where ASMR videos are played, and viewers can lie on it freely and enter an ingenious ASMR journey with headphones. I really appreciate this kind of multi-sensory works. Since people have multiple senses, they interact with each other to restore a more real experience.

Hypnosis is a human condition involving focused attention, reduced peripheral awareness, and an enhanced capacity to respond to suggestions. There are competing theories explaining hypnosis and related phenomena. If someone hypnotizes you, they put you into a state in which you seem to be asleep but can still see, hear, or respond to things said to you. Hypnosis is not a state of near-sleep but is manipulated by human intervention.

From my research, I realized that hypnosis is a therapeutic technique. A trained and certified hypnotist or hypnotherapist guides you into this deep state of focus and relaxation with verbal cues, repetition, and imagery. Most people remember everything that happens during hypnosis. There are some misconceptions about hypnosis. Some people think that when you are hypnotized, you will lose consciousness or memory. Actually, you remain aware of who you are, and where you are and remember what happened during a hypnosis session.

I would like to make a multi-sensory experience device that combines sound and light. Although I am not a professional hypnotist, my purpose is to deal with stress and anxiety through hypnosis. Bring people into a state of extreme relaxation by attracting their attention.

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HMsEx WK2

This week's lesson introduces the five senses and their sensitivity. This made me start to reconsider the sensory choices for the final project. The instructor also introduced the circular emotional model. Considering the HME I chose, I hope that I am emotionally relaxed and calm, which is an inactive sense of pleasure. In addition, we learned that emotions are related to three focuses: outcomes, agency, and objects. During studio time on Thursday, we went to the capitol to experience the lights and sounds of the set. It is a very shocking venue, and I have great expectations for the display of the final results.

Based on my chosen topic, I started researching the field of hypnotizing. From my research, I realized that hypnosis is a therapeutic technique. A trained and certified hypnotist or hypnotherapist guides you into this deep state of focus and relaxation with verbal cues, repetition, and imagery. Most people remember everything that happens during hypnosis. There are some misconceptions about hypnosis. Some people think that when you are hypnotized, you will lose consciousness or memory. You remain aware of who you are and where you are and remember what happened during a hypnosis session. Technically I consider using existing music for lighting design, and I have chosen a suitable music to present a state of relaxation.

After I decided on a topic, I started thinking about what style of expression to choose. I want to make a multi-sensory experience device combining sound and light. Although I am not a professional hypnotist, I aim to deal with stress and anxiety through hypnosis. Bring people into a state of extreme relaxation by attracting their attention.

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HMsEx WK1

This week the class went through the course introduction, multi-sensory experience is a new field for me. We know that color is associated with mood, and color is an important element in building an image using light. People have imagination, which will help them complete the psychological suggestion, and using effective and appropriate lighting can help people better enter the ideas that the design wants to convey. Lighting designers can manipulate the eyes and thoughts of the audience through the design of lighting, so that they can go from watching to seeing, from seeing to understanding. Like vision, hearing can also bring us different feelings. When we hear different types of sound effects or music, we will have different emotions in our hearts. Different senses can also be converted to each other. For example, Music: Not Impossible is a kind of sound that can be transmitted to the skin through vibration. For people who have lost their hearing, sign language can only help them understand words, but cannot feel the beauty of sound. This is an inspiration to me. The combination of multiple senses will have the effect of one plus one greater than two to better realize the immersive experience.

I found an article in the library about the relationship between mood and color (Discussing color representations and implicit assumptions in Schloss et al.’s (2020) study on conventional notions of color‐emotion associations. Jonauskaite, D. & Mohr, C.,2022). People may have similar feelings about color, which reminds me of a color psychology term Qualia, which is a specific term for color and is defined as an individual instance of subjective, conscious experience. This is different for everyone and since no two people are exactly alike, no two sets of eyes see the same color. Just as everyone responds differently to the same pain, so too does the experience of color. Every design evokes emotion, and every designed object sends signals to our brains. But emotional peace runs much deeper than what we have on a superficial design level. Technically, I watched some tutorials from the Capitol demo, but haven't tried it yet because I'm still a bit confused and plan to have time to focus on it intensively next week.

In the choice of adjectives, I chose Unbelievable. But I don't have clear goals and proposals yet. Just think of some related to this word: AI, Optical illusion, CGI, and Video games. Next week I should start thinking about how to express it.