Chao Han

Final project

2010-08-25T12:12:00.007+01:00

Reproduce the scene 2

2010-07-20T00:47:00.002+01:00

Scene 2_strategy

2010-07-20T00:31:00.002+01:00

4 Scenes in Royal Observatory

2010-07-20T00:21:00.005+01:00

Interim Report 2009-2010

2010-06-20T09:01:00.002+01:00

Open publication - Free publishing - More interim report

Review from the original 2

2010-03-20T17:47:00.001Z

Review from the original

2010-03-16T22:05:00.009Z

Observe people -Change the angle of observing that based on different time

2010-03-10T17:54:00.005Z

Observe people - Same angle but based on different time

2010-03-10T17:51:00.007Z

Observe people - different position

2010-03-10T17:42:00.004Z

Observe people - different angle and time

2010-03-10T15:38:00.008Z

The history of Charles Ⅱ

2010-02-18T22:37:00.007Z

Paper model

2010-02-18T22:30:00.000Z

Scan the paper model

2010-02-18T22:01:00.002Z

scan the cube when changing direction

2010-02-11T00:17:00.003Z

The scan device could record every moment of stuff as long as they are in the scanning area. And I want to see the combination of stuff’s different directions when they are changing the direction. The process of that can be considered as many directions in a very short time. So the image of the scanning is the connection of changing the direction. I kept the cube on the top of the scan stick and changing the direction of that before I got this. I don’t know exactly if this has a connection with my project, I just wanted to have a try.

Context map

2010-02-10T21:22:00.009Z

I chose a sculpture as my object that is located in the Soho Square. My project aims to create a multiple perspective landscape that is made up by different directions of perspective. I got this idea from the Cubism.

In cubist artworks, objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in an abstracted form—instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context. Often the surfaces intersect at seemingly random angles, removing a coherent sense of depth. The background and object planes interpenetrate one another to create the shallow ambiguous space, one of cubism's distinct characteristics.

I took photos for that sculpture from different directions because I want to use this sculpture as my stuff to detach seeing from different direction. It's a metaphor of stuff in the real world. After that I resembled these photos that took from different directions together. And it got a kind of new construction in one direction.

This is something I did by now. Next step, I am planning to use some materials to detach the perspective and having some experiments to create stuff to see the perspective space.

A view from the football receiver

2010-02-03T14:50:00.016Z

This is a test about the view of the football receiver. I passed the ball to the other person who was taking this photo. With a camera on head, he just wanted to change the position to get the ball. And these are some photos from that camera during the process of trying to get the ball. From my point of view, the trace of the ball was almost like a couple of parabolas. And from his position, the image was interesting, with a complex trace.

The traces of the ball are much like some parabolas because generally we take the ground as the frame of reference when watching a football game. If I change the frame of reference with the pupil, we could not consider this as a parabola any more due to the pupil’s different directions every second. Especially the players on the ground, they need to revise the positions in order to get the ball and in that process, they gaze the ball. For their pupil, the trace of the ball will not be considered as a normal trace and depend on the trace of the players. This trace is a result of two movements’ combination.

If I keep the frame of reference as a move object then I can get the different landscapes that depend on different frame of references. For example, I can show a football game in a different way by choosing the different players as frame of reference. Besides that,this role of observe can be used to other landscape that can be transformed to a new form. This is something I could figure out by now.

a process analysis of goal scoring

2010-01-28T01:37:00.004Z

Week 7 - Eniatype -Spatial tracking

2009-12-10T20:52:00.003Z

Time & Space

2009-12-08T14:45:00.017Z

Time & Space from Chao Han on Vimeo.

Week 6 - Type - Eyesight & Space

2009-12-05T22:38:00.004Z

sight & space from Chao Han on Vimeo.

Ideas & Methods

2009-12-03T01:23:00.007Z

Week 5 - Enia - The key from Rosetta Stone

2009-11-24T11:22:00.029Z

The project during this week is to giving some response to something. It means that we need to think about what can we read from these objects and how to use these elements in another way. So we went to the British Museum to find something which we are inretest in. During the short visit, Rosetta Stone left me a deep impression.

The Rosetta Stone is an Ancient Egyptian artifact which was instrumental in advancing modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing. The stone is a Ptolemaic era stele with carved text made up of three translations of a single passage: two in Egyptian language scripts (hieroglyphic and Demotic) and one in classical Greek. It was created in 196 BC, discovered by the French in 1799 at Rosetta and contributed greatly to the deciphering of the principles of hieroglyph writing in 1822 by the British scientist Thomas Young and the French scholar Jean-François Champollion. Comparative translation of the stone assisted in understanding many previously undecipherable examples of hieroglyphic writing. The text on the stone is a decree from Ptolemy V, describing the repeal of various taxes and instructions to erect statues in temples. Two Egyptian-Greek multilingual steles predated Ptolemy V's Rosetta Stone: Ptolemy III's Decree of Canopus, 239 BC, and Ptolemy IV's Decree of Memphis, ca 218 BC.

Through the discussion with Simon, I decided to focus on the Rosetta stone. As we know, this stone contributed a lot to the deciphering of the principles of hieroglyph writing. However, what I want to know is whether there are still some secrets which have not been found yet. In other words, if we consider this stone as a treasure, how many wealth are left.

Firstly I tried to collect some general information.

1. It is incomplete and broken due to the long time and war.

2. There are three main languages on this stone.

3. It is added some words by another people in different time. This is important because they are the evidence of the time and the history.

4. The role of the word

Then I tried to figure out the meanings that I can obtain from the stone.

1. It’s just like a book, or a treasure. Some information of it has been found,however, maybe there are aslo something else are left.

2. It represents the power and wealth. As a result, it was tributed as a gift.

3. I want to know the key to decipher the secret.

So I need to find the key. Maybe It sounds simple but I wondered whether I could create a device which can be used to decipher the secret in this stone.

Week 4 - Aesthetical - Moving eyesight

2009-11-18T19:36:00.008Z

This week I tried to do some further research on the tracking perspective. Through the analysis on the video that took last week, I got a track which can be used to describe the movement of people and the general direction of eyesight. So I went to the site, trying to get the eyesight in first perspective, in order to gain the feelings of person in that position. Then I took some pictures in the same position, following the person’s track. I use these pictures as the tracking which can be used to express the movement and perspective when people walking across this street.

And I found that if I want to track the perspective exactly, I need to know how the eyesight changed every moment between these pictures of perspective. So the key point is how to get the pictures when the eyesight is changing. I did some analysis about the time that people changing eyesight. I found that when people changing the eyesight, not only the direction changes, but also the position of the body. To begin with, this process can be divided into two sections. One is imaging the object is static, the people is moving. The other one is trying to describe the process of changing eyesight, when people are static. After that I joined the two processes together, getting a general diagram that can express the process of changing eyesight.

Next week I will try to use some device which can get the moment when people are changing their direction of eyesight. As we know people use two eyes to judge the distance between the objects and eyes. In that case using camera cannot gain the image due to the single lens of camera. So I wonder whether I can make some advice, for instance, using two cameras and join them together to gain some photos when the eyesight is changing.

Week 3 - Notational - 20s in front of the shop

2009-11-13T17:37:00.000Z

The tracking

2009-11-12T00:22:00.013Z

This project aims to express some invisible relationships in the system. At first, the method was trying to catch people’s eyesight in Air Street, followed by an analysis about the tracking. However, the difficulty is how to catch people’s eyesight due to the quick change of the eyesight, even less than one second. I wondered whether I could set up a light on the people's head or use another elements to express the movement of the eyesight and in that case, I could adjust the direction of the eyesight. I took a movie by two cameras that were hold in a different position, making sure the information is correct.

I chose 10 seconds as my research object, trying to analysis these movement. But during the process of drawing, I found a special thing that happened in front of a restaurant where a girl met with her friends. During that time, at least six people were in a small space, and a lot of action was happened. I thought I could analysis these things, and analysis the affection between each other, finding some thing that can change the tracking of eyesight, and so on. It can express the relationships in this system because that these elements could make up a complex system.

Week 2 - Ecological - The Eyesight

2009-11-04T22:14:00.022Z

Through the tutorial at last week, I decided to pay more attention on the depth of relationships in the ecological system for the purpose of catching the most important relationship. Finally, I chose the eyesight as my research element. As we know, the movement of human’s eyesight are different every time. For instance, as people working on, they have to look around the environment to make themselves safe or meet their curious. So, is there any relationship between the eyes and the objects? This is the direction that I want to research on.

To begin with ,I took a video at the air street. After analyzing the movement of people’s focuses, I got a track and I want to use this track to describe the movement of eyesight’s in order to make these invisible elements appeared. However, there is not only one element that I should take in consider. At this stage, I only focus on the single track of eyesight’s movement and I need to find out another couple of relationships. For example, is there any link between the buildings and the eyesight's? Whether different buildings could cause different track?

Week 1 - Introduction - Ecological Model

2009-10-30T10:50:00.008Z

The purpose is to create a new construction which can be used to replace the original ecological system.
Firstly, I tried to finger out the relationships between this system and some invisible elements, for example, the airflow and the smell, which could be proved that they also play a potential role in this link.
During this process, I found that the ground has a similar function with the conveyer belt. More Precisely, they can not only transform the individuals but also the memory. Besides these elements, the signal is also transformed, but the difference is the medium. So I wonder if I can create a new construction to transform them in a different way.
When it came to the airflow, I was confusing because I could not find a exact way to describe the movement of the wind, as a result, I could not replace these kind of elements. What I can do at the moment is to make sure the relationships are clearly stated.
After that I did some research on the way that how these elements affect each other. However, due to the limited time, I have not done much.
To sum up , I think this system is a participant in the ecological system if it can replace the original system. Meanwhile, it is also a reader because it can calculate the relationships by itself.

The Workshop - Analogue

2009-10-20T17:38:00.007+01:00

We worked as a group under the guidance of the lecturer Perry Kulper in Bartlett school during the first week.

The main purpose of our design is to make the invisible power, for instance, wind and sound appeared. Due to the special position of the site, we decided to choose saussurea involucrate as our theme. We found that the saussurea involucrate influences on the terminal situation just like the wind in the way of separating the stone. Secondly, the construction of the petals of saussurea involucrate is the same with the helix power of the wind.