Jade Fife

12. Viral Intervention: Final Artifact

We always had in mind to use the broken piñata as an artifact; the question was how to present it. We ended up having a lot of the candy left over, which helped in favor of the discussion that waste has on climate change. The left-over footprints that we actually used in the park led you to the trashcan, as well as candy wrappers and broken pieces of climate change messages. It was all put in place to emulate an afterparty and the waste that parties can create as much as humans create waste. At parties in parks, there is trash in the grass, etc., so we wanted to show that. The waste that the piñata itself produced.

Turn Out: We arrived at 2, set up pretty quickly, and just waited for the public interaction, but hardly received any. People and kids would look down and be intrigued by the footprints leading to the piñata, but ultimately never come up to do so. To have someone from the outside actually engage with our project, we asked a mom at the playground if they could hit the piñata for our project, and then came the people at the end of the video. The video at the beginning shows clips of people passing by but never glancing or engaging with the piñata, which ultimately shows that even though they didn't hit the piñata/world, ignorance is a dangerous factor as well. Towards the end, the older kids aggressively hit the piñata, and once the piñata was on the ground, he continued to beat it, and then the three people fought for the candy, which symbolizes the people's greed for the world, the use of fossil fuels, wanting to drill in Anatolia for oil, etc.

Given our theme of climate change and global warming, this idea involves using a globe as the main component. My idea involves making a large globe piñata which we would later destroy in a public setting. The contents of the inside/how we destroy it will reflect our sentence/the message that we're trying to visualize of us as humans destroying our planet and not doing enough to save it. One of our options includes setting the piñata on fire at a park to send an ironic message by having us contribute to the problem, or just breaking it normally.

Flag Race Challenge

My flag, in reality, has no deeper meaning. I genuinely thought it would be funny to do a flag all about me, so my name is in the center, and the flag is all cute and girly with the colors I like. Incorporating themes from the last project onto my flag, on the letters of my name are the pieces of the cut-up shirt, which are not visible on camera. It was to add texture to the text so it's not only 2D. I cut out a stencil for the font because I wanted it to look neat. As for the race, Paulina and I decided to do it at FIU, where the middle place would be the art building. I started in mango, while she started in GC. In the video we presented, we used a YouTube vlog style inspired by those challenges where, while a race is happening, you see both points of view at the same time, one after the other, which adds a comedic effect. Paulina ended up winning the race.

When first presented with this project and thinking of ideas to execute, destroying a T-shirt was the first thing that came to mind when thinking of fabric. I took a white piece of fabric as the background, then cut up a t-shirt in no specific way, then placed the pieces onto the fabric to look like a t-shirt. Clothing becomes part of people in a way when they like a specific sweater and it becomes their favorite and they wear it all the time. Destroying that t-shirt is like destroying a part of you or destroying the memories clothes have on them.

When thinking of iconic places, I wanted to do something more personal to me and my creative journey. I decided to go to my old high school during class time to capture the essence of the theater room and how it normally was on a day-to-day basis for me. I experimented with stop motion and added graphics of my old designs that I designed for shows and competitions that I did in theater. I specifically chose this location because the theater is where I first started to practice graphic design and learned so many things about designing posters and graphics for shows.

For this project, with the color lights in mind, I wanted to use the color to emulate the emotion that I am feeling while looking at the mirrors. Think about how film and theater use light to affect different situations. As the light turns red, I turn more angrier and frantically look through the mirrors. When the lights turn blue, I'm more calm and slow, looking through the mirrors to showcase that I'm sad. The placement of the mirrors as well was to emulate a broken mirror, a disconnection.

VIRAL INTERVENTION: 5 MEMES

GROUP MEMBERS: JADE, PAULINA, EMILY, RODRIGO, JULIA