Notes:

• 1 minute before death:
  • Look at brain activity right before dying – could there be a visual link?
  • How do we want people to feel about this experience?
  • Different cultures have different definitions of this phenomenon -> Perhaps could be an interesting angle?
  • How do we pass onto the next stage? Is it a cycle?
  • Loop of memory – time is repeating itself in a way – Make someone reflect on their own life

• Time and the universe:
  • Interactive system that affects visual outcome
  • Life categories change visual/sounds/textures
  • Trees could be a focus – carry proof of their life through rings
  • Projection mapping + interactive real environment + motion capture – could be considered
    -> Difficult to execute
    -> Lifecycle through motion capture?
  • Could have lines to represent the choices that people make – would make the visitors think of how many different choices/lived experiences there are
    -> Interactive space
    -> Shows difference in perception
  • Life path
    -> What do we want people to experience/feel?
    -> What is that exact focus?: science, religion, regeneration, …?
  • Using a small time frame – could help narrow down focus to how and what people feel (within) a small time frame

 

What is our big idea?

• How people perceive time and think about a small experience
• Make them reflect on their own life and time
• Don’t push an outcome or expectation, let people make their own conclusion/thoughts

 

How do we make them think?

• Is it through objects?
• Is it through interactive experiences?
• …..

We’re interested in how people react and reflect on a shared, universal experience, being time.

 

To do: 

• Research different emotions
• Research different timeframes
• Research different choices
• Research different ages
• Research different performances
• Research different objects

• Look into Michelle Bastion – Architecture lecturer, we can email Jules to get contact info
• Look into Bryan Nino (?)

-> all in relation to time

 

Jan 30, 2025

Meeting notes:

• Connection + soul movie -> abstract: perception of ideas and creation 
  • VR/3D environment
  • How to show inside of a brain?
  • Use lights, colour and texture to show different thoughts/ideas
  • Interactive
  • Express human perception
• Music visualisation through game:
  • Journey through line moving through an environment
  • Movement and surroundings based on music beats/tempo
  • We play the game, but as a show
• The shape of time:
  • Use lines and movement to represent time
  • We can’t see time, but we do feel: how do we represent this?
  • Particle motion + sound 
  • Smelling stimulation
  • Interactive: long exposure technology – capture movement in time
  • Timeline of light
• Tide: affected by the moon and sun
  • Traditional chinese calendar uses this basic concept – look at this relationship
  • Cosmic/magnetic field – energy representation
• Soul and the Great Beyond:
  • Use an installation or narrative space
  • Immersive experience to represent feeling of being in a flow state
  • How people can disappear into something if they’re focused enough
• Time: visualise time for a 20 y/o
  • That time period has lots of ideas, thoughts and problems related to it
  • Significant time for anyone’s life
  • How to visually represent?
• Social distancing
  • How to visualise social distance in a new/nostalgic way
  • Could use sound as a main component?
• Different sounds bring up different interpretations:
  • How cleaning the dishes can sound like thunder depending on your life stage/experiences
• Life flashing before death:
  • People say that you see your whole life right before you die
  • Universally known conception
  • How to visually represent this?
  • Is it like a life cycle?

 

Favourite topics:

• Death + 1 minute before death
• Time + universe
• Soul + great beyond

 

To do:

• Present to Dave
• Discuss and choose final topic
• Narrow down key focus of our project

Jan 30, 2025

We met each other for the first time, and found out about our backgrounds and interests. 

We came up with some basic ideas just around the word perception and what comes up when we think of that word. Some things were the movie Soul which explores how people can enter a flow state and go to the Great Beyond. Lose themselves in something which everyone will have a different perception of. Another was looking at sounds in relation to time and size. So micro and macro sounds, and how objects can have a soul through sound or lifetime. The changing tide came up with the push and pull of the moon, also visually representing music through a game. There were also some more literal interpretations like how people literally perceive, and how that differs from person to person, this could then be applied to a multitude of topics.

To do:

• Hone in on our ideas and define them
• Think of some outputs for this

 

Jan 30, 2025