Category: Assets
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Timeline-Unit3 6.15-8.31
Phase 1: In-depth Research and Concept Anchoring (June 15th – June 30th, approximately 2 weeks) Reading section: Preliminary “Family File” Collection: Phase 2: Fiction Building and Prototype Experimentation (July 1 – July 21, 3 weeks) Construct an archive of “fictitious records”: Phase 3: Production and Preliminary Testing (July 22 – August 18, approximately 4 weeks)…
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The Case for Art on Family Narratives
1.Huang Qingjun “Family Pawn” New Works Exhibition（2015） Huang Qingjun’s series of video works “Family Pawns” is based on the generational background of modern China. In the accelerationist China, through the city and the hustle and bustle, we capture the objects in our lives, and use the form of the objects to reflect the inner attributes…
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Funding and sponsorship of artists with similar subject matter
1.Xiaogang Zhang He is a well-known contemporary Chinese artist whose main source of funding relies on galleries and auction houses to sell his artworks. He captures a sensitive period in China, the ‘Cultural Revolution’, a traumatic and sensitive part of China’s contemporary history. This has enabled him to gain favour with collectors from all over…
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June 10th. class summary
problem+place/position=people = project different audience has different needs. about characteristics: age disability sex gender identity race ethic … True inclusion is not providing any outside help to elevate or degrade certain groups, but rather being transparent so that each group is seen and shared. 1.know your audience and their value 2.first impressions are important 3.give…
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Information gathered on the family project and the progress of its production
1.Collection of family stories： This is a collection of 300 poems and stories recorded by some 37 literary figures of my family ancestry. Among them, the stories of the Qing Dynasty’s literal prison period and the Ming Dynasty’s resistance to the Japanese are more painful and heavy narratives, suitable for adaptation as game scripts. This…
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Creative Progress on the Digital Family Platform
Combining the habits of a large number of family members and considering the convenience, I created a small program (a program system that can be used within the WeChat system) in WeChat (the most used SNS software in China). This program can automatically generate a family tree by family members uploading their name, generation, age,…
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Why the current stage of family information dissemination is backwards
1.The main way nowadays： This is data obtained from interviews with 50 people from China’s Generation Z population.Oral history and books are still the most dominant methods of family history and family information dissemination. The disadvantages of such methods are: 1. having to be present or owning the books; 2. in the current era of…
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Results and analysis of a questionnaire survey of 50 Chinese Generation Z young people
1. Through the survey, we know that: almost eighty percent of families have genealogical existence, which proves that the Chinese family identity itself is very strong; 2. Because of the development of atomized society and social media, more and more young people spend less time with their families and clans, and they think that traditional…
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Research Introduction & Reading List
After reading much of the literature on digital ethnography and Assmann, Aleida’s literature on memory and cultural awareness, I became interested in how family history and heritage can be documented and preserved using digital means. I find that many psychological or social problems arising from the family of origin of many young people in modern…
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Report on the results of recent family history research
In early April I was in my hometown doing fieldwork about my family history. The methods of investigation are: oral history of elders, research on family sites, and documentary research. At the same time, I am in the process of collating the information I have obtained and am thinking about how to create some digital…