2019

Independent Project

 

This is a bonus, a closure for this whole project hibernation? It is a gesture, a sign, an expectation to the future. It is my destination here. And my wishes to all.

 

Design Tools:

Image Development: Photoshop

Puzzle Making: Processing

Maze game development: Unity

 

Using the real brain scans of Alzheimer patients to create a maze in VR interactive application, the viewer is going to experience the simulative "memory lose". Within the process of finding the exit, the viewer will discover the meaning of "reverting memory" and the effect of brain and mental damage.

 

Project Goals and Importance:

This project attempts to explore the current society issue, the aging of population, from this big problem to discover the several micro burdens inside the society. And the project will discuss the memory loss and the way to find it back. What is it.

1. Research the current status of elderly people around the world and the various memory loss conditions;

2. Simulate the process and the experience of memory in the interactive application.

 

Addressing the Project:

General Steps:

1. Collecting data and materials about the various disease that cause memory loss, and the current social aids for elderly people;

2. Using actual brain scan to create a maze that simulates the process of memory loss.

Goal 1 Specific Steps:

1. Interview the people from city construction and healthcare center;

2. Interview the elderly people in various conditions;

3. Interview the doctors about the differences between various disease that cause memory loss;

4. Analyze the data and materials;

Goal 2 Specific Steps:

1. Take the analysis from Goal 1 and visualize the process of memory loss;

2. Create the maze;

3. Program the interactive application.

 

Ideology:

     I forgot my iPhone passcode on the day of August 11th. Actually I was trying to help my mom for her passcode, and it turned out to puzzle myself. I completely forgot my passcode. I tried and tried, every possible combination. My phone got locked.

     It is just like the streets, roads, signs that you have walked, passed thousands of times suddenly become strange, into a maze. This memories are in your head, you know it, you can feel it, muscle remembers. But you just cannot recall it. I suddenly know what memory loss feels like.

We don’t actually know if my grandmother has memory loss. We have her detected, examined and she passed all the tests. Doctor once suspected it could be Lewy bodies dementia. But no, she doesn’t have it. It became a mystery now. Luckily, she is always delight. We know she suffers from something. And what is memory exactly.

     I once believe that memory means emotions. How much memory storage you saved the same amount of emotion you poured in. Memory is the seething ocean. New waves float back, the days we passed have buried down to the ocean. Memory construct emotions. Emotions build family, society and relations. Memories about encounter have broken the prisons of distance, thoughts and dimension. They have found each other and made a new system of memory. This system of memory has daily lives, fights and argues, affair and affection and the libido within. This system pulls and drags inside, tear up and get back again, with something new. This is the progression of reproduction system, no blood involves. This is miracle by only memories.

     Then what if all memories have gone?

 

all of it

every last second

all the information stored in brain

they are not just a pit of code

you have no idea what they really are

not information

all these memories

they ain't facts

they are so much more than that

they are trees

family

lover

they are mothers

brothers

sisters

father

sons and daughters

silver fox and lily snakes

they are love

is what i becoming

i am love

i do it for love

i did it for love

i have been doing it for love