Marcela Antipán Olate

Expo Milán 2015 ~~

UX design and multitouch screen navigation for Room 5 *The Cube* of the Chile Pavilion in Milan.

The concept of Expo Milán 2015 was "Feeding the planet, energy for life". For that reason, the idea of the screen interaction was to show typical chilean food preparations and invite people from different countries and cultures to know chilean ingredients and national dishes.  

This room consisted in 14 multitouch screens of 55", which create a cube installation that integrates electronics, computing and physics with a innovative artistic proposal.

Visualizing the Illkun (anger) ~

This project is a visual-object interactive screen interface for the interpretive visualization of the anger in the province of Malleco, Chile. The main objective of this visual essay is the creation of a media project that seeks to reflect and put into discussion the concept of screen –apparatuses– when relating it with memories of dissent. Thus, it takes as a case study the book The Reasons of the Illkun/anger (2010) of the researchers Martín Correa and Eduardo Mella, trying to visualize through images-diagram and an interactive device, the subjectivities arising from feelings of dispossession in the Mapuche conflict in the Malleco region. 

In this way, the diagram-images and the apparatus designed; as an analogous, technological and creative effort on the concept of screen; seek to mediate spaces and territories of memory that conflict the notion of history in Chile. 

Landscape and Gaze to the Modes of Describing Events ~

Landscape and Gaze to the Modes of Describing Events was an research-creation project based on the interest in addressing three issues: creation in design as a form of disciplinary reflection, software development as a vehicle of connection between design and the question of contemporary media, and design of graphic representations of interpretations and interfaces as aesthetic-political mediations.

Through software development; understood as action for creation; The project raises an interface and graphical representations of interpretations on the ways in which digital news in Chile say what they say, and publish what they publish.

"In dictatorship, people are controlled by force; In the democracy of advanced capitalism, it is through the media"

- Noam Chomsky

Edwards and Perez was a public intervention that seeks to show the manipulation of the media through two sculptures that represent El Mercurio newspaper and Las Últimas Noticias (LUN) newspaper, both in Chile.

People do not choose what they read, but this is predisposed by political power to keep people with a mediocre level of information (LUN), focusing this newspaper for a lower socio-economic level than El Mercurio, despite both belong to the same media conglomerate.

The intervention consisted in the creation of these two statues made of paper from the respective newspapers and were placed in the neighborhoods of Sanhattan, USACH and PUC Casa Central, all in Santiago of Chile. In addition to the staging, a fanzine was given that summarized the motivations of this public intervention.

Project made in the IV design class of the University of Chile under the Management Unit _Pólvora _

Watch intervention video

Visual Inhabit of Feel was a project carried out at the end of 2013 with Peñalolén neighbors grouped in a Coordinator, who oppose the construction of the Vespucio Oriente Expressway, which would destroy the neighborhoods where they have lived for decades.

This project aim to understand how central policies affect the common and to deepen into subjective things: how arbitrary urban modifications become a threat that devastates not only traditional or old quarters; but the sense of belonging of the people that inhabit a territory and modify  their feelings with these new realities to uncertainty, despair, regret, impotence and discrimination.

In this way, was proposed the realization of an artistic installation with illustrations that reflect these feelings, plus the development of an information visualization that, as a timeline, shows the facts that have been modifying the emotions –both positive and negative– from the announcement of the construction of the highway until that date.

This artistic exposition was installed outdoors in a local square located on the corner of Los Orientales with Cruz Almeyda, Peñalolén, Santiago of Chile and was attended by neighbors and local authorities.

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We believe that the land in which we reside belongs to each of the inhabitants of the city equally, where everyone has the right to live in a favorable environment. We believe in the autonomy of citizenship to modify their environment, take care of it and preserve it, without impositions of foreign leaders or subordinations to any manifestation of capital.

Our struggle is born when we decide to break the apathy, the indifference and the alienation of the day to day; when the damage is done with the construction of the ugly and its repercussion on the happiness of the people.

 That's when we find another like us and decide to create something.

- Katy, Gabo y Marce.

Piñon

Piñon was a project conceived as an educational interface for children enrolled in special programs of academic reinforcement and development of talents such as the PENTA UC. This web application consists in a contact network created according to talents, skills and interests of children, young people and experts that will allow to enhance the skills from the interaction between these people, their participation and collaboration. These multidisciplinary relationships seek to create and develop new projects in conjunction with children and their tutors who foster a critical, creative and creative spirit.

The pine is an endemic seed of southern Chile that gives life to araucaria, a tree that, in this project, symbolizes the potential of a strong base to educate the next citizens of the country.

Video mockup

Visualizations for a Conscious Menstruation

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Visualizations for a Conscious Menstruation was a project that focused on the creation of a communication system for the feminist-environmental group Rosa Canina. This system includes the creation of visualizations about menstruation, who dispute the feminine hygiene industry established under the neoliberal system.

Palacio de Hierro  ~~

Interface design and multitouch screen navigation for Palacio de Hierro company (Mexico), developed at Riolab. This interface consisted in a way to experience a place to visit, where a person can visit and tour the different destinations offered by the company.

Interaction and Visualization Platform ~~

Interaction and Visualization Platform is an information system designed for Mexico government by Riolab. This system is mediated by a multitouch screen that shows relevant information about that country, in this case, shows the places with major earthquakes and magnitude.

BITÁCORA 

Estas son algunas cosas que he estado ejercitando en processing. La tarea original era hacer la última imagen, donde una barra negra se repite y su grosor aumenta gradualmente de izquierda a derecha.