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Interaction
Oil on Canvas
30" x 48"
Completed in 2002
Inventory # 2348.101.2002.12.010
© Matthew Felix Sun
Oil Painting “Interaction” – A Group Portraits
Painting portraits can be very challenging and rewarding – how to capture the spirits of the sitters, how to render the physiognomies and the postures faithfully yet with artists’s personal touches, how to connect the sitters to the viewers, and most importantly, to ensure the relevancy of painted portraits in the era of digital cameras and smartphones.
One of my best portraits was a group of young men, me in the middle and two college friends at the two sides of the canvas. We sat on stone benches, looking serious and somewhat despondent, and aimed our eyes away from another, into different directions. It was a moment of uncertainty, a private consultation in a group setting, a dialogue with oneself, and a congregation without exchanges. I titled it “Interaction”. My relatively broad brushstrokes rendered the bushes in the background a hallucinatory backdrop, and the deliberately bland facial features were economically outlined – a kind of abstraction.
I am quite proud of this work, as it captured the spirit of then Chinese collage students, who were facing very uncertain futures, in the age of political corruption and crackdown around the time of 1989 Tian’anmen (Tiananmen) Massacre and a very harsh economic future. I just posted a blog on my trip to Beijing during the time the martial law was about to be declared in Beijing and the ordeals my fellow students and I endured during the sit-in on Tian’anmen Square, which will explain more of the background story to this painting, a souvenir of my youth: 25 Years Later, Smell of Exhausted Tian’anmen “Warriors” Lingered.
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Note: Selected for 23rd Annual National Juried Exhibition, Berkeley Art Center, July 23 - August 26, 2006
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The chimps have sounded the alarm: they've spotted the keepers coming with the food throwover, and they are all taking up their positions. There are two separate food throwover spots, so the chimps are split up into 2 groups.
Some of the chimps, like shiba, are very consistent in sitting in the same spot each time. Others, like Kuma, vary their position, presumably depending on where they think they'll get a better throwover. Interestingly, when fumo was younger, kuma was much more consistent in coming over to this section near shiba. Now, kuma can be anywhere. And as for fumo ... i rarely see him. I think he's running round independently of kuma, maybe even at opposite food throwover spot to kuma, presumably scoring some food for himself. I really should go check it out ... but i tend to be as consistent as shiba in coming up this end when the food throwover chimp alarm is sounded :)
The chimps get pretty excited when food is coming, and that can lead to some interesting interactions ... as in this little snippet of video ...
The first interaction i see is Shiba (with sudi on her back) turned around to greet Lisa (who's got Liwali on her belly). Lisa is high status: it's always good to keep on good terms with her! And next comes Kamili to give Lisa a very elaborate greeting.
Over to the right, koko appears to give shiba a bit of a greeting as shiba passes by. Up the back, Lubutu (Lisa's son, the alpha male) and behind him Sembe (shiba's daughter) are approaching. (Or maybe that's sule, not sembe, behind lubutu ... and sembe approaches from the next level down) And Sasha has taken up a position in the back right hand corner. (Sasha will go and greet Lubutu as he gets closer to her).
Shiba sits down in "her" spot and looks up to see if the keeper has arrived up on the wall above yet. And Koko approaches Shiba, and shiba greets her. And Koko turns around and politely presents her bottom for examination. (I've heard a rumour that in an unofficial vote, Koko has won the award for having the worst looking bottom of all the girl chimps). And while shiba is checking out koko's swelling, koko reaches her hand back to pet sudi. Well! That had me intrigued. It's been truly surprising to see how Koko and Fumo have developed a special relationship. And now to see Koko start to display an interest in sudi as well ... absolutely fascinating!
Next, Lisa/Liwali arrive, and Lisa plonks herself down practically in shiba's lap. I wouldnt want someone crowding the spot i've chosen for the food throwover, but maybe in chimp terms Lisa is being nice to shiba. Shiba's daughter sembe is hovering over to the left, not coming any closer. On previous occasions, since sembe has lost her white tuft of bottom hair, i've seen Lisa make a point of chasing sembe off (i can imagine her saying to sembe "you, girlie, you get to the back of the line ... leave the prime spots to your betters!").
And finally Kamili turns up to give Liwali, Lisa's baby, a stroke or two. Kamili hasnt shown all that much interest in the baby chimps, and i suspect this interaction with Liwali is more of an attempt to curry favour with high status Lisa (oooh Lisa, what a cute baby you have!) than an actual interest in Liwali. But then i'm just guessing. It's all guesses! But more educated guesses these days :)
#concept #génératif #comportement
Un trio d'objets lumineux qui évoluent au sein d'un système.
L'action de l'un provoque la réaction de l'autre, la lumière générée évolue ainsi de manière autonome.
Chaque module possède une personnalité qui s'exprime au travers de son matériau et de son comportement.
#concept #génératif #comportement
Un trio d'objets lumineux qui évoluent au sein d'un système.
L'action de l'un provoque la réaction de l'autre, la lumière générée évolue ainsi de manière autonome.
Chaque module possède une personnalité qui s'exprime au travers de son matériau et de son comportement.
photos from the one-day interactive hardware sketching workshop, led by Dave Vondle of IDEO. Students used Arduino kits and Flash/
photos from the one-day interactive hardware sketching workshop, led by Dave Vondle of IDEO. Students used Arduino kits and Flash/Processing programming to rapidly prototype a game.
#concept #génératif #comportement
Un trio d'objets lumineux qui évoluent au sein d'un système.
L'action de l'un provoque la réaction de l'autre, la lumière générée évolue ainsi de manière autonome.
Chaque module possède une personnalité qui s'exprime au travers de son matériau et de son comportement.
#concept #génératif #comportement
Un trio d'objets lumineux qui évoluent au sein d'un système.
L'action de l'un provoque la réaction de l'autre, la lumière générée évolue ainsi de manière autonome.
Chaque module possède une personnalité qui s'exprime au travers de son matériau et de son comportement.
#concept #génératif #comportement
Un trio d'objets lumineux qui évoluent au sein d'un système.
L'action de l'un provoque la réaction de l'autre, la lumière générée évolue ainsi de manière autonome.
Chaque module possède une personnalité qui s'exprime au travers de son matériau et de son comportement.
Formal interactions that the instructor has with the content, both in terms of design and development as well as in teaching or facilitating the course
Informal interaction in the learning environment includes: learner-learner, instructor-content, content-content, instructor-learner, learner-content, learner-network, & learner-collective
#concept #génératif #comportement
Un trio d'objets lumineux qui évoluent au sein d'un système.
L'action de l'un provoque la réaction de l'autre, la lumière générée évolue ainsi de manière autonome.
Chaque module possède une personnalité qui s'exprime au travers de son matériau et de son comportement.
#concept #génératif #comportement
Un trio d'objets lumineux qui évoluent au sein d'un système.
L'action de l'un provoque la réaction de l'autre, la lumière générée évolue ainsi de manière autonome.
Chaque module possède une personnalité qui s'exprime au travers de son matériau et de son comportement.
International Development Secretary Priti Patel visits Lokore dispensary to see UK support on health and nutrition, and interact with health workers and beneficiaries.
The Development Secretary has the opportunity to interact with beneficiaries at the dispensary, and see the outpatient therapeutic programme for severe acute malnutrition. She also had a discussion with a mother on her experiences and benefits from the nutrition programme.
Picture: Rob Oxley/DFID