#experimentswithmedia

Abhishek, Sharmila, Shruti, Chandana, Vaissnavi

Hello! Let's walk through an instagram activity carried out by me inspired from exquisite corpse.

Exquisite corpse was a technique I became familiar with as a part of illustration course in my 2nd year. I along with some of my friends made a few illustrations based on the activity and it was so much fun!

This became my basis for making the activity into an online artifact and something that can have similar experience even on a virtual platform.

A lot of questions started coming at this stage - what platform to use? How to bring the essence of my work in the activity? How to enable new unpredictable results with same elements? How to mimic collaborative drawing and unpredictability?

So first I began with fixing on my platform - Instagram - as I am most familiar with that. And then I began exploring the levels and forms of interaction possible - tapping, swiping, tagging, sending, commenting etc. - and began looking into how to adapt it to my idea. Slowly I arrived at the idea of enabling people to repost each other's stories through received tags. So I made a set of stickers inspired by the illustration and uploaded on Instagram as stickers (Big thanks to Shruthi B for this!)

And now I could invite people to do the activity. All they had to do was :

1. Add a story with some stickers

2. Tag their friends to add on/finish their drawings

This approach enabled the experience of collaborative drawing in a new medium in a new way which was very intriguing and fun to be a part of (as per some users)

Here are some beautiful results of the whole thing -

Checkout more on the Instagram account @nikki_corpse (Instagram account link - https://instagram.com/nikki_corpse?utm_medium=copy_link)

I am very grateful to have experienced this through this past few weeks. Thanks for scrolling till end.

Bye Bye <3

SOOOO MUCH FUN!!!!

Before

After

And some moree...

Experimenting with media opened up a whole new dimension that lay out there to be explored. While thinking of a digital experience that people could go through, I realized I wanted to tell or include a story.

Capturing places and moments in time gave me the opportunity to use some of my photographs in the digital experience.

Time to start Experimenting with Media!!!!!

"The beauty of Stained Glass Windows is that they are made up of so many broken pieces put together in new ways and given the chance to capture light once more" - Gregory D. Welch

The initial idea was to make an Instagram filter that would show a frame of these windows, and people could use the frame along with their environment to capture time and space.

It seemed like too much was happening here....

The feeling that the stained glass brought was now lost...

And here something seemed to be amiss...

So then, I experimented with using the stained glass window as a whole and something that people could find in the space around them while they move their phone using the filter.

And so...

Tadaaa.....

Here is an image that a friend who used the filter sent me...The panel coincidentally appeared on the chair.

The filter can be found on Instagram under the name Stained glass.... Hope it brings light and joy to all those who use the filter.

A fun little project of converting any old work of mine into a digital artifact which can be accessed and interacted by other people on the internet.

The inspiration

The illustration was done 3 years ago for a coffee table book with the theme of sunshine and how the meaning varies with context. This particular piece was about self realization and how it feels when it happens.

The idea

To make an Instagram filter which allows the user to interact with the glowing ball from the illustration.

Final Output

An Instagram filter that tries to mimic the godrays effect when any object that obstructs light appears in the camera and allows the user to interact shinny ball from the illustration above.