Hsinmei's art portfolio

PORTFOLIO OF LIN HSIN MEI

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ABOUT ME

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CONTENTS TEACHING EXPERIENCE PHOTOGRAPHY LEGO ECO FRIENDLY............................................................................. 2 FOOD ASSEMBLAGE ............................................................................. 8 SHADOW ART.......................................................................................... 10 CYANOTYPE ............................................................................................14 SCREEN PRINTING .................................................................................18 HANDMADE CAMERA............................................................................. 22

ANIMATION TRAVELLING IN TAIWAN..........................................................................26

WEB ART GAME CARD PROJECT ...........................................................................30

INTERACTIVE ART LASER ART............................................................................................... 32 AUTOMATIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT .....................................................34 ASTRONAUT SETTLE .............................................................................38 MAKEY MAKEY..........................................................................................40

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

KINSTIC ART

MAGNETIC ART .........................................................................................44 AUTOMATIC WRITING ..............................................................................48 BETWEEN VIRTURL AND VARITY ..........................................................52

ART and AESTHETIC

FOOD ART .................................................................................................60 BRIDGE ART ............................................................................................. 64

CALLIGRAPHY

WATER WRITING CALLIGRAPHY ...........................................................68

INSTALLATION PUBLIC INSTALLATION ...........................................................................74

NEW MEDIA ART WORK CYBORG TAROT ..................................................................................... 80 ........................................... 88 94 GENDER STEREOTYPE .........................................................................

PERSISTENCE - A BLACK MOVING PLACE SYNTHETIC DAILY ..................................................................................100 SENSITIVE BORDER .............................................................................102 DAILY SWING ....................................................................................... 106 1

PHOTOGRAPHY

lego Eco - Fridendly

Students researched ecological issues and watched environmental information videos in computer class. In art class they created a comic-strip storyboard which they turned into a series of photographs using Lego characters and various other readymade objects, describing environmental issues with digital images.

Class: 7th grade Material: Lego, readymade, iPad

Topic: Ecology Fields: Visual Art, English, Science, Technology

Using iPads to create stories.

Simulated forest fire.

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Creating a scenery of the Antarctic.

Cooperating in a group.

Capturing night scenery.

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Lego characters were fighting against trash

This group of students wanted to capture a soil pollution scenery.

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Our planet looked like a trash mountain

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The end of the world.

Saving our energy.

Saving the polar bear.

No rubbish.

Fear of global warming.

Defending our forest.

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PHOTOGRAPHY

Food Assemblage Topic: Ecology Fields: Visual Art, English, Science, Technology

During Christmas students created food assemblages using cookies, bread and candy. The themes were: radiation, union, gradual change and color gradient. In the end they learned how to use an iPad to capture their creations in good quality.

Class: 7th grade Material: diverse kinds of food, paper, iPad

Portraits in Food assemblage.

Students worked in groups.

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Radiation themed food assemblage.

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PHOTOGRAPHY

Shadow Art

Topic : Self-Identity Fields : Visual Art, Science The students used natural and artificial light to capture shadows of everyday objects. By letting light shine on the objects from different directions onto a paper, they could create a wide range of images by tracing the shadows.

Class: 7th grade Material: food, readymade, iPad

Students performing with shadow puppets. The class also visited a traditional shadow puppet performance and an art exhibition about shadows.

Students use their body to make a heart shape.

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Tracing and taking pictures of shadows from leaves and other found natural objects.

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Shadow art with food and readymades.

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PHOTOGRAPHY

Cyanotype Topic: Science and Technology Fields: Visual Art, Science (Chemistry)

Students learned the old method of cyanotype (also referred to as “blueprint”) as a simple and low-cost means to make copies.

The students experimented with different proportions of the chemicals used (ferric ammonium citrate and potassium ferricyanide) to achieve the best results. By combining picked plant material with drawings, they could create pins with different designs.

Using electronic scales to measure ferric ammonium citrate and potassium ferricyanide

Using a hair dryer to dry paper with photosensitive chemicals.

Class : 9th grade Cooperation with science teacher Material : paper, plant material ferric ammonium citrate potassium ferricyanide Students collage the flowers and plants in school

Using color apps to analyze color proportion.

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Flower assemblage on the photosensitive paper.

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Students boiled leaves with chemicals to make them transparent.

Cyanotype masterpieces.

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Sun exposion made prints change color from brown to dark blue.

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PHOTOGRAPHY

Screen Printing Topic : Self-Identity Fields : Visual Art, Science

Students began with taking selfies which we printed on paper. They would then draw on the photos to turn themselves into comic book characters. Later we copied the drawings onto transparents which we in turn exposed onto the silk screens’ emulsion using UV-light. In the end everyone printed their portrait on a big canvas. During these courses, students not only learn printing technique, but also sent the printed works to appreciate their teachers as the graduated gifts.

Class: 9 th grade Cooperation with Taiwanese print making artist Lee Yen Jen for printing techniques Material: silk screen, textiles, dark box, textile color

Self-portraits as cmic book characters.

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Putting color on the silk screen.

Exposing the silk screens with UV-light in dark boxes.

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PHOTOGRAPHY

Handmade Camera Topic: Ecology Fields: Visual Art, Science

Student had learned some camera theory in science class and used the whole classroom as a darkroom.

Students In art classes we put this into practice by building our own box cameras with an aluminum foil aperture. The students got hands-on experience of how aperture size and the distance from lens to film affects the captured image.

Class: 9th grade Cooperation with science teachers to learn light theory and photographers to asistant making camera Material: black paper, aluminum foil, photo paper

Another method to make a camera by using a small cardboard box.

Making a boxs camera from black cardboard.

Students made smaller box cameras es to contain Polaroid film.

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Using the box cameras to take pictures outside of school. An iPad-app aided in calculating the exposure time.

Washing the finished prints.

Prints was hanging to dry.

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ANIMATION

Traveling in Taiwan Topic: Ecology Fields: Visual Art, Music, Geography, Literature, Technology

In the animation “Traveling in Taiwan” students utilized self-made puppets and drawings to “travel” to different parts of Taiwan. The students began by making water paper marbling on rice papers which they then cut and collaged to create sceneries for the animation. They also wrote lyrics reflecting the different regions visited, and in the end made an animation documenting their “journey” through all of Taiwan.

Class: 7th grade Cooperation with geography, technological and music teacher Material: water paper marbling, rice paper, newspaper, color pen, iPad

In class we frequently use iPads for many tasks including photography, animation, internet research etc.

Student used Google Maps to find the location of Taiwan.

Student created their own material and collaged them into pictures.

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Students rewrote pop song lyrics and recorded sound in music class.

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Travelling to Taichung (center part of Taiwan)

Travelling to Nantou (center part of Taiwan)

Traveling to Taitung (eastern part of Taiwan)

Traveling to Changhua (center part of Taiwan)

Mind map of school

Mind map of school

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WEB ART

Game Card Project Topic: Ecology Fields: Visual Art, Literature, Technology

Students learned comic drawing technique and drew themselves as comic book characters. Students also created a series of role playing game cards themed around environmental protection. After finishing these card drawing, we scanned the them to scale them to playing card size, and later printed them and made a deck of cards. Students not only learned techniques of comic drawing and also created game cards to concern the hard issue of our environment.

Class: 7th grade Material: paper, color pen, iPad, computer

Environmental issues in the game cards.

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Self-protraits as comic book characters.

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INTERACTIVE ART

laser Art Topic: Science and Technology Fields: Visual Art, Science (Physics) We used laser cut board to build a modular mirror matrix. By moving the mirrors to different positions and turning them in different angles the students could explore the law of reflection (angle of incidence equals angle of reflection) in practice.

After learning the theory from science class, they used the laser cutting boards to assemble and settle on the wood pedestal.

Materials with mirrors and laser cut board

Class: 7th grade Cooperation with new media artist Lin Su Yu exhibiting in Kaudou Art Festival.

Material: mirrors, glue, laser light, laser cut board

Students assembled pieces of mirrors to create the mirrors matrix.

Students used the laser set to create words and images

KuanDu Light Art Festival in Taipei National University of Arts connected to the laser art workshop in our school.

Laser beam made visible by smoke.

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Students learned reflections in Science class

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INTERACTIVE ART

Automatic Instrument Topic: Science and Technology Fields: Visual Art, Science(Physics)

Science classes taught students how sound is transmitted in different material. In art class we started out with looking at sound art works, then we created an automatic musical instrument which used bottles with different levels of water to different pitches.In addition, they used the Arduino to write programs and created various types of percussion.

Class: 9th grade Cooperation with science teachers and new media artists Lin Su Yu. Material: glass bottles, water, motors, Arduino

Writing controlling software for the instrument.

With assenbling and installing with glass bottle set with group partners.

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Students investigating how water level in bottles affect pitch, putting together the musical instrument and programming the Arduino.

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Motors with weights placed off-axis to create a vibration as to strike the glass bottles. This creates a ringing sound whose pitch depends on the water level in the bottle.

Arduino controls motors that strike the bottles.

Glass bottles with different levels of water create a musical scale (do, re, mi, fa, so, la, si)

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INTERACTIVE ART

Astronaut Settle

During summer camp students acted tutors for a group of elementary school students. They touched the subject of lights ability to travel through outer space without any medium, and created their own “space settlement” out of laser cut board illuminated with LED:s.

Class: 9th grade Cooperation with science teachers and new media artist Lin Su Yu. Material: LED lights, laser cut wood, Arduinos

Final presentation of space settlements.

An Arduino is used to control the LED-light of the settlement.

Connecting two Arduinos to synchronize light of two different settlements..

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INTERACTIVE ART

Makey Makey

Makey Makey is an electronic invention tool and toy that allows users to connect everyday objects to computer programs. The students used it to make the computer interact with different kinds of food objects to create sounds. After learning electricity in science class, students conneted loops to let Makry Makey work. They used Makey Makey to explore their imagination to play music and sound.

Class : 9th grade Cooperation with science teachers Material : Makey Makey board, food, cable wiring, computer

Handouts showed which kinds of materials that can conduct electricity

Makey Makey board

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Composition IV by Wassily Kandinsky, who as eminent at the visual representation of music.

Testing materials for conduction

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Group members connected hands testing materials to conduct electricity. 43

KINETIC ART

Magnetic Art Between the Genders

Topic : Self-Identity, Gender stereotypes Fields : Visual Art, Performaning art, Science The issue of gender is a tricky and concerned topic to my work and also to the students.

The story is motivated by reading the article -The Daughter of Gambia River(written by Mantra, published on Southern Weekly). The story described the ceremony (initiation)of Gambian women. The daughter of Gambia River should experience female circumcision according to the traditional ritual, to become a real woman.

I used and shared the dismantling and restructuring toys, trying to reconstructing toys into radial abstract vocabularies through a surrealistic manner.

Then, we created mind maps to explore students’ imagination of children’s favorite toys and daily products from the Korean artist’s two photography, which had clear images of gender stereotype. We told about the story and linked to the famous movie- The Danish girl, which described the Danish artist how to face the first transgender in the history.

After the group discussion and presentation, students started to create their gender projects with mixed faces and metaphor color and shapes. Then, we tried to create the kinetic sculptures and used the colorful spot light to perform the image between the genders. In final presentation, students also created their own stories and texts that reflected to the Danish artist and themselves.

Students uesd mind maps to analyze gender stereotypes from the Korean artists works.

Class: 7th grade Material: iron wire, light, magnet, motor, kinetic set, iPad

Students cooperated with partners, triing to combine the magnetic sets and letting it rotate.

The Korean artist, Jeongmee Yoon, used colors and toys to describe gender stereotypes.

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Students created mixed faces with male and female, and they make the drafts into iron sculptures.

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The light and shadow make the gendder stories into sound and performance.

Students tried to reflet the artists story and themself with moving colors and shadows.

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KINETIC ART

Automatic Writing

In the art history, Surrealism announced automatic writing is related to the dream and subconscious. First, we explored how automatic writing could control the movement from the natural powers and mechanics that relates to bionics and kinetic art.

Following from the water writing calligraphy, students used wood boards, motors, and diverse materials to let the writing machines move randomly.

After the writing, students used their physical bodies to simulate the dots and lines from the automatic writing images.

Class : 7th grade Material : pens, motors, wood boards, elastic bands

Students used radio controled machine to try different way of writing.

EV3 robots controled the automatic writing.

Students learned how to let the writing mechine take balanced and move steadily.

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The kinetic set used different pens and combinations to control writing.

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The handouts that were created by diverse automatic writing mechines.

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BETWEEN THE VIRTUAL AND REALITY

3RAR, VR and MR

Thee was a workshop at Huashan Creative Park, where thrived as a wine factory in 1914 and was abandoned to falter into ruins in Taipei. The participators came from the community with different ages to experience 3R(AR,VR and MR). The workshop first introduced the historical events and geographic locations. Afterwares students figured out the historical decorations and aesthetic structures of this reused buildings, and we utilized AR (Augmented Reality) and MR (Mix Reality) to traced back to the past. Finally, students created their 3D mode characters and made stories in the virtual Huashan Creative Park with VR(Virtual reality ). The combination with historical sites and using new technology represent new perspectives of this histroical place.

After 3D scanned with Qlone, students made 3D characters and Augmented into Reality.

Class : people in the communities Material : computers, VR eyes glasses, cell phone

The ancient maps at Huashan Creative Park,from Geography classes.

The 360 degrees panoramic view of Huashan Creative Park.

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Students analized historical decorations , aesthetic structures, and the appreciation of Japanses styles buildings at Huashan Creative Park.

The software to make AR and VR in computers.

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To extend to the whole classroom, students imitated their physical bodies the automatic writing from papers.

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ART AND AESTHETIC

FOOD Art

The inspiration came from a Taiwanese artist, San Chen, who created colored race balls like the universe as the interactive taste.

With this idea in mind, the transdisciplinary courses tried to mix with TADITIONAL Taiwanese rice balls and Japanese food decoration.

First, students learned the daily proportion of nutrition in Health class. Second, students analyzed the food color, using origami dishes to test mathematic structure and taking photography in Visual Art class. Finally, students cooked and decorated their distinctive rice balls in Home Economic class. As the rice balls finished, they used color tickets to write and describe the taste in Literature class.

The key-competencies consist of health knowledge, art and aesthetic, maker by group cooperation, problem solving and thesis of food saving.

Class : 9th grade Cooperation with health, home economic teachers Material : paper, food, color ticket, iPad

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Food color cycle

Using origami dishes to test mathematic structure.

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Students cooked by group and presentaed the rice balls photography.

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ART AND AESTHETIC

Bridge Art

Students first appreciated and told stories about the famous Chinese ink painting ‘Along the River During the Qingming Festival’ by using digital picture book. Trace back to the Northern Song Dynasty, the ancient people created the astonished techniques to build the arch bridge without engineering.

Furthermore, students used the methanic theories and methods to create their bridges from brainstorming in groups, understanding the stronger structure from a regular aesthetics. Finally, they reflected to observe real bridges in our society and designed a future bridge to our sustainable environment.

Class : 9th grade Cooperation with science teachers Material : wood, paper, puzzle, iPad

Compared with different bridges in the world.

The famous Chinese ink painting ‘Along the River During the Qingming Festival’.

The triangle structure was used in building bridges.

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Taking some examples from picture book called 'Bridge Are to Cross'.

Playing puzzles to appreciate and fine famous Chinese ink painting.

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The astonished techniques to build the arch bridge without engineering.

Students used the methantic theories and methods to created their bridges in groups.

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Students tried to design a future bridge to our sustainable environment.

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CALLIGRAPHY

Water Writing Calligraphy

The following exercises emerge from the ancient technique of Chinese calligraphy and ink painting, but instead of ink we used water-writing textile. Water-writing textile is a calligraphy practice material, a special kind of textile that turns black in contact with water. When the textile has dried in about 5 minutes the drawing disappears and it can be reused. The large format canvases made students push the limits of their former experience of drawing in small notebooks. This larger format requires larger gestures that border on dance, and calls for a whole different relation between themselves, the model and the painting. Students learned new ways to write and paint. In this class, students extended their whole bodys to draw and write without any limitation.

Class : 7th grade Cooperation with Taiwanese calligraphy artists and Japanese artists from exhibitions.

Material : water writing textiles, brushes, water

Getting to know the material by practicing different kinds of lines.

Model drawing

Students took turns in acting model. Being on both sides of the aisle adds to the drawing experience – students is encouraged to use their bodily experience of acting out a model position when they make their drawings.

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Getting acquainted with cubism by model drawing from different angles.

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Elementary school students drawing during the “monster” themed summer workshop held by senior high school students.

Happy faculty members showing off their water-writing creations made during a workshop for school staff.

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After practicing lines and drawing on water-writing textiles students wrote traditional ink calligraphy pieces to celebrate the lunar new year.

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INSTALLATION

Public Installation

During the celebration of school festival, students draws drafts from fishes to birds, which presented the symbolic image of Dazhi High School. By collage adhesive color filter, students created various colorful birds to hanging on the hall like public art. During the process, students worked in groups and sloved problems together, then, their work decorated the sky of school.

Class : 7th grade Material : adhesive color filter, textiles, acrylic glass

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Exchange students with Dazhi High School logos with color from their national flag.

Flags with school logos in different styles.

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NEW MEDIA ART WORK

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Cyborg Tarot

This is an interactive work in the form of a physical tarot card deck and a website.

It mixes religious symbols, online divination and mythical stories for the digital native.

Website visitors would fill in a questionnaire and get their fortune told through the animated tarot cards. The motifs of the cards touch the boundary between physical and virtual reality, as well as that of the human body and the technical device in an age where devices for digital information has become such an integrated part of our being that they are more to be looked at as “digital prostheses”.

Cyborg Tarot interactive web animation dimensions variable 2013

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Visitors fill out an online questionnaire and is presented with their respective personal card from the deck.

The audience played with Cyborg Tarot.

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Gender Stereotype

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The intention of my work is motivated by reading the article “The Daughter of Gambia River” (written by Mantra, published on Southern Weekly). The story described the ‘coming of age ceremony (initiation)’ of Gambian women. The daughter of Gambia River should experience female circumcision according to the traditional ritual, to become a “real woman”. This kind of way of “becoming woman” that filled with sex discrimination in traditional village or classical definition. Women’s destiny had been decided unfairly by ingrained custom.

The construct of “girl” appears continuously, the dismantling and restructuring toys and the women being watched from classical paintings, trying to reconstructing toys into radial abstract vocabularies through a surrealistic manner. The veiled violence and abstract language hiding behind beautiful paintings, describing the “sex discrimination” that tied by existing concepts.

Gender Stereotype Experimental Animation dimensions variable 2014

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The girl worked beside Gambia River.

Paralleled classic painting of Presumed Portrait of Gabrielle d'Estrées and Her Sister, the Duchess of Villars, were using in this animation as peeking the female bodies, transfering from the Western white people to the Gambia black people.

The work tries to touch the issue of gender role, using my own hair cut with toys and some African symbolic items.

Presenting the animation in cradle, which had some taphor of the birth of Gambia girl.

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Gender Stereotype Experiment Animation 03'24" dimensions variable 2014

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Persistence – A Blank Moving Space Persistence – A Blank Moving Space animation interactive video loop dimensions variable 2016

Persistence – A Blank Moving Space utilizes real-time projection on white objects. As the audience comes close to the desk the animation starts. An animation is projected on the white objects and the border between animation and physical object is blurred.

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Synthetic Daily The work consists of a 3D printed sculpture of the lower half of a human head suspended from the ceiling, loading with white lotion inside as the screen. An small format animation featuring a collage of everyday events and imagination is projected inside of the head.

Synthetic Daily experimental animation video loop dimensions variable 2015

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Synthetic Daily the images from the animation 2015

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Sensitive Border

In this work I continued the topic of the former work inspired by the article “Daughters of Gambia”. Gender stereotypes largely affect the policies and attitudes being established in children’s behaviors and values. In contrast to the beautiful and colorful images present, there are droplets of blood and symbols of separation and dismemberment.

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Sensitive Border experimental animation rvideo loop 60×60×90 cm 2015

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Sensitive Border

experimental animation video loop dimensions variable 60×60×90 cm

2015

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The work is conceived as a visual dialogue between the visitor and the kinetic installation, initiating daily events from school life. On each desk in the room is some kind of container which has pencil stubs for feet. A vibrator in each container is activated at random intervals so that the container starts to move about, thus drawing on the paper while making a rattling noise.

Daily Swing

kinetic Installation video loop dimensions variable

2016

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Daily Swing

dimensions variable

2016

Daily Swing

automatic drawing 2016

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