Mica- 3D/2D Design

13. Viral Intervention: Final Artifact

Viral Interventions: Final artifact

For this project we represented the sentence: The music sounded welcoming at first, but the lyrics revealed a disturbing story of abuse. We first thought of doing the exhibition in Soundscape Park but the police told us we were not able to do that. We chose that locations since it was close to Lincoln Road and during art week, which would reach a lot of people. However, we ended up in a little boulevard between Calle Ocho and 10th street usually visited by tourists that want to learn about Cuba. Despite the inconvinences, we were able to set up our project in this location, where we stayed recording for 3 hours to see people's reaction. Most people did not pay attention to it, but we included in the video people that actually stopped to read and pay attention to the exhibition. What really surprised me was a tour guy thinking this could be an exhibition done for Art Week by a famous artist, since we decided to detach ourselves from the exhibition and just act as we were not involved in it. Then, we decided to leave the exhibition throughout the night to see what would happen and the next day we discovered the installation was still there.

Viral interventions: Process

How does an artist transforming something of no value change what society thinks of it? Is the value of it affected by the status of the artist?

Timeline

Budget

Final Proposal

List of tasks

Based on the original sentence, this proposal idea takes the concept of "music hiding something disturbing." A box would be made that uses a lock that will only open to a certain tune, in this case the last 4 notes of Ring Around the Rosie. When it opens, inside the box will be a "posie" made out of paper, and the rest of the song will play. To present this to the public it will be put in a place that is accessible to the public and easily found, similar to geocaching puzzles and containers. The point is to make the people who interact with the box uncomfortable when they hear the song and see the flower based on the context of the meaning of the song.

For this idea, we thought of portraying the message through the use of materials and creating a brutal exhibition. As the base of the project we would use a wood board and place images attaching them with nails. We would place cables around the images like a crime evidence board. The cable will eventually lead to the headphones which will be playing an audio in this case the song, “Love the Way you Lie” or another type of audio.

Viral interventions: memes

Viral Interventions word

The sentence we want to represent is: The music seemed welcoming at first, but the disturbing lyrics revealed a story of abuse. For this idea we thought of pasting CDs on a big piece of cardboard/styrofoam. On one side some of them are going to be painted with colorful acrylics, then some of them are going to be broken into pieces and spread to the opposite side. In between the broken pieces, we are going to include black and white images that communicate toxic behaviors or sadness. In addition, if we decide to work with the song we used for the video, Loce The Way You Lie, we could add phrases of the lyrics. During the exhibition, we could also play the song in the background. We would present this idea to the public in Wynwood during the day.

For the following assignment we did a performing video in FIU College of music. Our sentence was: The music seemed welcoming at first, but the disturbing lyrics revealed a story of abuse. Our video speaks on how people play songs daily, but usually don’t analyze the deeper meaning behind the lyrics. Therefore, we came up with the idea of enacting a usual scenario: playing music while going to class. We used the song Love The Way You Lie by Eminem and Rihanna, as it is a song that talks about a toxic relationship. In the video we portrayed the realization of the abuse the song talks about and we added two of us suffering and crying as the song says: Just gonna stand there and hear me cry?

9. Inhabiting Space: Final