ANNA M YANG
人算不如天算

I was asked to make a blog for the NYU IMA Low Res graduate program. (I started with no tangible experience in interaction design.) Math is nature’s poetry, and these are just diary entries.

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WHEN: 0805/2024
WHAT: IMALR-GT-106
I care about a lot of things. Existential things. Political things. Love things. Sad things. Creative things- Many things. However, I’ve never cared much for platform things. 

I just expect them to work.

My Airbnb fiasco (which I’ve written about here) was unexpected, chaotic, and honestly quite a bit more traumatic than my jokes let on. It dug up old emotions from moments in this life when I did not quite know where the roof would be. 

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We’ve spoken about attention in this class. Airbnb had my attention for the past week or so, and attention has its own lifespan. For some things or ones, we exchange attention with them for the entire time we exist here on Earth. For others, just for a fleeting moment. (Hopefully, Airbnb falls into the latter category.)

Prior to starting the assignment, I had a film-driven concept that I’ve been hoping to explore for years. However, I decided to feed off of my current state and go full out with an anti-Airbnb project.

I intended to use projection mapping to showcase an animation that spanned the entire 35ft ish panel of Airbnb’s 222 Broadway office building… And so I tried. Say hello to AirNOnNO.

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At first, I was experimenting with Resolume (see below ), but Resolume costs $$$. Patrick then suggested that I could use AE for projection mapping, which turned out better than expected. 

Doing this outside had its limitations- power supply, lumens, rain, safe distances, legality… The works.

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Massive thank you to Reverie. Thank you for making me feel less alone in this ridiculously unnecessary feat.

Sources:
Projection Mapping (AE + Resolume) - LumaBox
Documentation Video Track - Welcome to the Opera by Anyma & Grimes

THERE’S STILL ♡ IN THE WORLD