First Meeting：
One of the four members of the performance group was Xiaozhuang Gao, Crystal Wu and Shutong Liu from design and digital media, and Lerong Qi from sound design. The first group discussion was a continuous collision and divergence of ideas, from one topic to another, with the process of overturning and reconstructing, finally landing on the concept of the “butterfly effect”, which is now described in the minutes of this meeting.
Inspiration 1: Plants
In the first meeting, the topic of plants was discussed – plants themselves are rich in visuals, both in terms of their characteristics and their veins and roots.
Referring to the artist Thijs Biersteker’s art installation using plants as a vehicle, in which he expresses the impact of data pollution on our lives through the effect of carbon dioxide exhaled by the participants on the plants, we wondered whether the internal changes that occur when plants are confronted with performers could be quantified and visualised to create new patterns or new plants, thus reflecting on the relationship between man and nature. The relationship between man and nature. Up to this point, our thinking had been very limited and monotonous, and there was a big gap in terms of technical means and forms.
Inspiration 2: The Butterfly Effect
Although the discussion on the topic of plants was not fully developed, the overall conceptual framework made us think that whether it is the influence of people on plants that develops into a larger social topic in an artwork, or the insignificant inspiration and ideas of each of us that will eventually be updated and iterated into an installation, this phenomenon made us The butterfly effect seems to exist everywhere in the world, it is common, romantic and thought-provoking.
Building on the previous idea, we thought about the possibility of collecting the sound of the performers as a loop when they create a bit of sound, and influencing the media material to change dynamically or visually, collecting its dynamic data and eventually creating a visual effect like a tsunami. Although the subject matter and realizability of the project still needs to be discussed, the group members all expressed their interest in the topic and are willing to continue to develop it, and we will conduct more research to develop our ideas.
