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Self As A System  

  
2023

This piece is the final iteration of an assignment titled "Self As A System", which tasked students to turn their social media data into a self portrait. I decided to focus on a platform that I interact with the most: twitter.

When you export your data from twitter, it includes a media folder that contains all images and videos from tweets you have interacted with in any way. With over 5,000 images divorced from their context, I found the mixture of reaction images, topical memes and images of serious world events to be both humorous and telling. I chose to display a number of these images scrolling haphazardly in a static photo in place of my eyes. On a platform where I'm not trying to project a particular self-image, does this data truly reflect me, or the world around me as I perceive it online?

Optical Illusion  

  
2023

This assignment offered the challenge of creating a visual illusion using p5.js. 

Using nested for-loops, I wanted to create an aliasing effect by rotating two sets of varying-size squares in opposite directions. Not satisfied with the result, I played around with the alpha value of the background so that the squares left traces each time the background was drawn. By oscillating the alpha value, I achieved a result I was happy with. The HSB color values of each set of squares are set at opposite ends of the spectrum and vary at the same rate to keep it visually interesting.

Experimental Clock 

 
 2023

The purpose of this assignment was to create a clock that divests from conventional time-keeping units, and thinks of time expansively and alternatively. This clock represents the way time is experienced on psychedelics. Time is real, but our perception of time moving from past to future is an illusion created by our brains. When tripping, the self becomes lost and so is the sense of time. In an analog clock, each moment exist separately from each other. In this clock, all moments are continuous; the past and future are connected to the present moment.
  

       

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