hackme[a hacking interface]

©Piracy has its own manifesto. If the Manifesto of Piracy develops further, what would it be like? Your images, your voices, your names…belong to you. In a way, you have a Copyright © of your images and your voices. Ha©k me is an expanded interface that would inspire people to think about Copyright in a different way. The input would be your images, your voices. Ha©k me would then process to glitch the input and spread the

datas all over internet. How do you feel when you see someone else has the same face as you or vice versa ? What would you do when your images show up in a movie ? Is it a good idea that your images are available to download on Novamov, Megavideo, Youtube,etc..Ha©k me would inspire the users to have some thought on Copyright. I would also create a Zine book to explain how ha©k me work.

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ha©k me represents ourinterface concept forthe YCN brief. How would you feel when you see your images being mixedwith internet culture ?

[in between copyright and copyleft]The YCN Student Award offer a unique and interesting brief this year : Can You Stop Piracy. The brief comes from Industry Trust, a company who’s specialised in Copyright related issues. Piracy, hacking or any form of violating copyright,have always been an on and going argument. One of the biggest challenges the industry faces is that people often see piracy as a victimless crime. It ’s not entirely true,however,most films, just like most bands and other artists, lose money, and for them to be made, people have to get paid. It ’s about respect. On top of that, people who provide films for free online are considered as a freedom fighter or heroes because they are offering free stuff and “helping people”. It ’s arguable that piracy might have actually become a part of our culture. It wouldn’t be a simple matter to get rid of piracy. For this project,

I collaborate with Darius Andrew, Emily Gutteridge & Anh Nguyen. We explore the connection between Piracy and Copyright.

Despite their opposite belief, Piracy and Copyright might actually benefit each other. Intentionally or not . Piracy provide people who cannot afford to buy film tickets a chance to see those films. That group of people would then spread words about the movie. Thus, the film would get some promotion itself. Moreover, with the development of technology, it ’s almost impossible to avoid piracy.

Instead of arguing with the briefs or siding ourselves with either Copyright or Piracy, we decide to do something that would inspire people to think about Piracy in a different way.

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Organismic Fashion, as separated organismic beings, have endless possibilities. Since they are organisms , the clothes have their own reactions to the surrounding environment. In the alternate future where Organismic Fashion exist, clothes could correspond with your DNA .Clothes could also be generated from good bacteria. They could become an extra immune system, giving you extra protection for your skin while supplying vitamins and minerals to nurture your body.

Organismic Fashion could also develop to further state where it could “think” for themselves if they manages to reach the level of highly developed species. In an emergency situation, it could protect its host or reduce the damage.

FASHION AS AN LIVING

INTERFACEMY ROLE:

DIRECTION

MOTION INTERACTION

Fashion is an interface itself. There are various inputs & outputs on the concept. Input could be personal style, sexual intention, social identities while output might change or expand into more than one, depend on what type of input we have. It could be

considered that fashion helps you to define and represent your status, your appearance, your character….

Clothes interact with your body and the environment constantly. You feel the fabric on your skin, the heat, the

texture….You interact with the environment around you in these layers of clothes. Fashion plays an important role in our society,it affects our gender & identities, social status, health and many more.

ORGANISMIC FASHIONPeople always say: “You live with Fashion. Imagine what would happen if you could blow life into your clothes.

FINALOUTCOME

To investigate the possibilities of this interface, we did research on Bio Engineering and related subjects. It’s interesting that many people has proposed a similar ideas in different way, such as Gordon Park and his organismic system or the relative new Bio Design. For the final outcome, we created the website for Organismic Fashion, a short film and a fashion catalogue to showcase and demonstrate our ideas.

WEBSITESHORT FILMORGANISMIC FASHION CATALOGUE

fashion.konichiwadesign.co.ukAn interactive website for our expanded interface. The web interface design is simple but elegant. I come up with the layout after doing a few researches on fashion and life-style websites.

After I do a research on Unhealthy though and bad language, I realise that it’s “a human thing” and maybe orientated from stress. Experts believe that people might use “bad language” as a result of stress-relief, hence I invented the Swear Zone InterfaceBased on many researches, psychologists concluded that bad thoughts has “almost certainly always been a part of the human condition”. People swear and their need of using bad language has been argued that stress might be the main factor. The SWEARzone is invented to serve

as a stress relief method, not to be confused with encouraging the use of bad language.There are 3 variations of the SWEARzone, the Bully Face, Camera Censor and Meanie Label. The Bully face would change its expression upon your sound input. The Camera Censor would pixelate your images more and more as the frequency and the volume of bad language goes up. The Meanie Label tagged you from level 0 to level 13. It would politely ask you to Stop until it has enough of your swearing and decide to swear back

SWEARZONEGET IT OUT OF YOUR SYSTEM ALREADY |

For the SWEARzone interface, I created three version: Bully Face, Meanie Label and Censor Camera. They’re created in Processing, using mainly video and minim library.Also, I made a website to explain further about my interface. The website is colourful, eye-catching with exciting graphic. It also somehow reflects the 2nd version of the SWEARzone, the censor camera. On top of that, I made a few documentaries of User Testing & “Why do people swear ?”. Since it’s created in Processing, I uploaded the source code for people to download

FINALOUTCOMES

WebsiteProcessing interfaceDocumentaries