Come and join us in the opening of

SAMPLING TRADITION: THE OLD IN NEW MEDIA

An Exhibition of Interactive Installation

At the E-Gallery

13^th May 2009 (Wednesday)

3:00 p.m.

http://resamplingthetradition09.wordpress.com/

RE is an exhibition of 6 interactive installations that respond to the visitor through playful and innovative interfaces involving touch, motion, sound, and pressure. These new media artworks produced by students from MMD2133, shows how technology can be used as a tool and as a medium, combining with creativty to produce powerful, memorable and enjoyable experience. But what is new media art anyway?  If there is ‘new’ media art, doesn’t it suggest an ‘other’, ‘old’ media category?

Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin are among the many media theorists who argued that the ‘new’ in new media is in fact not new. New media depends on its predecessors for context and significance. Their term ‘remediation’ thus describes the process whereby new media borrows from/ depends on/ refashions older media. We can argue that new media arts achieve their cultural significance by paying homage to, rivaling, and refashioning such earlier media as painting, photography, film, and television.

These installation projects ‘remediate’ in this sense by bring into traditional art practices such as painting, sculpturing, and musical composition etc. In this regards, digitization process is an active mediator that transform, translate, distort and modify the ‘old’ into the ‘new’.

RE reveals a relationship with earlier modes of cultural practice yet implicates one of the many attitudes to embrace technology, in weaving the cultural fabric.

Belleza

Muhammad Ridzuan B. Mohd Radzi
Woo Elian
Laini Norellya binti Md Noordin

Bellezza is an interactive installation remediated Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece Mona Lisa. It explores the mystery behind Mona Lisa’s smile & gaze and the myth of her true identity.

Abstract Motion

Muhammad Helmi bin Taha
Muhammad Naqi bin Abu Bakar
Yassier Ariffin bin Maidin

Abstract Motion refashions Jackson Pollock’s action painting in which the movement a participant’s body create drips & splashes of paint of randomized color onto the digital canvas.

The Persistence of Memory
Chong Dee Na
Mahdi Ashjaei

The remediated ‘The Persistence of Memory’ would not solely enhance the painting’s vague/ hiddens with the aid of delayed camera life feed but also addresses the painting’s relation to today’s society.

Piece the Peace
Ooi Khai Fang
Joannae Regina Nesamalar
Rajeevan Muthukrishnan

This interactive installation remediated Marc Chagall’s stained glass named the ‘Peace Window’. The stained glass is pieced together just like a puzzle. As soon as user start to fix the puzzle, the participants are left with no choice but to ‘piece the peace’ together.

NightWatch
Cabreney Johnny Mositun
Jaisone Jai Prakkash

Materials: Projector, CPU, web cam,  speakers, modified torched light

i-Nature
Azzam Izham Bin Hamzah
Chong Kok Hee
Mohd Razis Bin Abdul Rahim

Materials: Projector, CPU, web cam, microphone, speakers.

‘I-Nature’ addressed the pressing environmental issue that is deforestation and it is aimed to raise people’s attention to an urgent call for conservation and protection of Malaysia’s natural heritage. This installation allows more than one participants to interact with it through the sound and motion capture device. It aimed at convey key conservation messages to lay public; educating and increasing awareness on the environment whilst suggesting different body whom they can channel their voice to i.e. local community, NGO, council members, and media. The carefully structured scenarios ask us to react playfully and to wonder if the forest should be left untouched. Each scenario requires participants to shout out and move their body assertively as if they are in a public demonstration. The lack of a mechanism of any kind to elevate the action to a pragmatic solution is not only the fall short of the work but also a parody of Malaysians’ ‘Not Care’ attitude.

Oecophylla
Mohd Firdaus Bin Mohd Faizal
Nur Nadyatul Syima
Siti Zulaika

Froggy
Marlina Binti Ismail
Noorashikin Binti Ismail
Erika Anggraini

Digital Koi Pond
Priscilla Foo Siaw Ling
Mohd Norazhar Razali
Kiew Choon Ching

The Music Wall Project
Nur Huda Binti Mat Yusoff
Nik Maizatul Akmal Afzan
Aliaa Shazana Bt Mohd Shah

The Zeitgeist Speilraum
Hijjaz Hamidi Bin Abdul Aziz
Zulfikri Bin Anuar
Mohd Syawaludin Bin Bahrudin

Wheel Of Life
Nor Naimah Bt Nasarudin
Nurul Huda Binti Ahmed Khalil
Fara Faeza Binti Ahmad Ramizun

The Last Repast Project
Nooruwaida Binti Idros
Azilah Binti Azman
Nazirah Binti Moheddin

Skeptic Delivery
Efry Arwis Bin Abd Rahman
Azzali Ahmad
Khirul Fadzly Bin Mustafa