PROJECT: "Si-Ming: Field of the Heart
(My Honors Senior Thesis Project for a Pioneering Independent Major in Media Arts at Wellesley College)
(My Honors Senior Thesis Project for a Pioneering Independent Major in Media Arts at Wellesley College)
ROLE:
• Principal Illustrator, Graphic Artist and Project Conceptualist
• Awarded B.A. with Honors in Media Arts at Wellesley College (an Independent Major at Wellesley combining MIT courses)
• Awarded B.A. with Honors in Media Arts at Wellesley College (an Independent Major at Wellesley combining MIT courses)
KEY SKILLS / DELIVERABLES:
• Big-Picture Ideation
• Digital Illustration and Graphic Arts
• Multimedia Animation and Interactions
• UX and Visual Design
• Poetry Writing and Animations
• Bi-cultural Translations and Transcultural Arts
DESIGN APPS USED:
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Illustrator
• Macromedia Director (for Multimedia)
PROJECT OVERVIEW / CONTEXT:
Represented below are three screens from three of the several Macromedia Director multimedia movies I created for my college honors senior thesis in multimedia arts at Wellesley College. In order to earn my honors in my independent major in media arts, I completed digital arts classes as well as other fine arts courses at Wellesley, and courses at our brother school Massachusetts Institute of Technology in digital communications and eCommerce and marketing. In addition, I completed a year-long thesis project that would be critiqued regularly and reviewed by the entire art department in order to be awarded honors in in my field of study. In addition, I also wrote a paper and held an art exhibit of my thesis study to earn my honors.
In this collaborative multimedia design project, my mother and I engage in an interactive visual dialogue that expresses our mutual nostalgia for enlightenment, the "Si-Ming" that we share together. Our dialogue illustrates a journey to the field of the heart, a contemplation of ourselves and our relationship to others. In this visual dialogue, my mother's poetry written in Chinese "converses" with my poetry written in English. Through our poetry, we sought to express both the personal and social implications of the Chinese immigrant and Chinese-American experience in the United States.
In this collaborative multimedia design project, my mother and I engage in an interactive visual dialogue that expresses our mutual nostalgia for enlightenment, the "Si-Ming" that we share together. Our dialogue illustrates a journey to the field of the heart, a contemplation of ourselves and our relationship to others. In this visual dialogue, my mother's poetry written in Chinese "converses" with my poetry written in English. Through our poetry, we sought to express both the personal and social implications of the Chinese immigrant and Chinese-American experience in the United States.
This Wellesley College Senior Thesis multimedia project was aired on television in the Spring of 2001. The Asian Spectrum interviewed me in my first appearance on television and aired this multimedia project Si-Ming: Field of the Heart to Cantonese-speaking Chinese in the Boston and Malden areas. This piece is also featured on Expressions, a non-profit educational website that exhibits creative work by international writers and artists.
Represented above are three screens from three of the several Macromedia Director multimedia movies I created for my senior thesis in multimedia arts at Wellesley College. In this collaborative multimedia design project, my mother and I engage in an interactive visual dialogue that expresses our mutual nostalgia for enlightenment, the "Si-Ming" that we share together. Our dialogue illustrates a journey to the field of the heart, a contemplation of ourselves and our relationship to others. In this visual dialogue, my mother's poetry written in Chinese "converses" with my poetry written in English. Through our poetry, we sought to express both the personal and social implications of the Chinese immigrant and Chinese-American experience in the United States.
"The full silver moon dipping in and out of the trees"
The hand-drawn digital illustrations below are stills from my Macromedia Director animation: "Another 3am After Work." All images were created with Photoshop and Fractal Design Painter. This animation was accompanied by Deng Lijun's Chinese song "Goodbye, My Love." My parents' difficult immigrant experience in the U.S. inspired my poem in this animation.
The hand-drawn digital illustrations below are stills from my Macromedia Director animation: "Another 3am After Work." All images were created with Photoshop and Fractal Design Painter. This animation was accompanied by Deng Lijun's Chinese song "Goodbye, My Love." My parents' difficult immigrant experience in the U.S. inspired my poem in this animation.
"The full silver moon dipping in and out of the trees"
The hand-drawn digital illustrations below are stills from my Macromedia Director animation: "Another 3am After Work." All images were created with Photoshop and Fractal Design Painter. This animation was accompanied by Deng Lijun's Chinese song "Goodbye, My Love." My parents' difficult immigrant experience in the U.S. inspired my poem in this animation.
