Shan Liu Major Studio Spring 2011

Media: sound, visual probes

Goal: To give visitor a surrealistic, sensorial experience.

>> concept development

DESIGN STATEMENT:

Storing memories in format of snippets of sound, the nightstand recalls and reconstructs the memories through user interactions. Playing with the drawers triggers memories, and manipulates the mind to compose them into new ones.

pics of nightstand

AESTHETICS: surrealisticdreamy paintings by Dali

CONCEPT: morphing + transforming“Selective Memory Theatre” by Matthias Dörfelt

>> memory organization? > autobiographical memory & its formation

Autobiographical Memory Baseby Conway and Pleydell-Pearce (2000)

Lifetime Periods

General Events

Event-specific Knowledge

Memory probesThey are used as cues for specific memories.

Types of memory probes: verbal, visual, audio, odor, textile.

EmotionsEmotion greatly affects the way autobiographical memories

are encoded and how people retrieve those memories.

Positive Negative

>> memory associatations & triggers

HORROR

DIE FROM CAR ACCIDENT

HOME GET BROKEN INTOLOSING CONTACT WITH TENNIA

DESIRE

LOVE

BE HIRED

WIN A GAME

FEAR

LOSING PRECIOUS ITEMS

FALLING

BREAKING-UP

FINANCIAL CRISIS

Watching Tom & Jerry on TV at home

Alarm going off

Talking with mom on Skype

Technology, Family, Entertainment

Technology, School

Family, Technology, Relationship

FUTURE PLAN:

Pull API from YouTube and other community-based websites. To dream from a “collective mind”.