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Jiayi Refelction

 What really stood out to me about Jiayi Young’s work is how she takes digital things that usually just live on our phones or online and turns them into something physical. At first, that might not sound like a big deal, especially in an art show where everything is physical anyway. But with Jiayi’s work, it feels different. She’s not just putting tech-related themes into art, she’s literally building objects and installations that make you experience the digital world in a totally new way. One piece that I thought was really cool involved Twitter hashtags. Instead of showing the data on a screen like most people would, she built this thing with liquid and clicking sounds that represented how often the hashtags were used. It sounds weird, but it actually made something kind of abstract feel real and alive. I never really thought about how often we interact with invisible systems online until I saw it turned into something you can see and hear. She also had this piece where she pr...
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Final project

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This is a close to last minute pivot due to issues with my original project ( the short film) however, this photo book still connected and draw inspiration deeply from Roland Barthes’ Image-Music-Text , especially his concept of the “punctum”, that small, striking detail in an image that pierces through surface meaning and evokes something deeply personal. By capturing human emotions in black and white, the work moves beyond straightforward representation and instead invites a more intimate, introspective response from the viewer. Each portrait refuses a single interpretation, reflecting Barthes’ idea of the “text” as something open, layered, and re-readable. Without the distraction of color, the images lean into light, shadow, and gesture to create a kind of visual music, a quiet language that speaks directly to feeling. The project also echoes the lyric “the darkness keeps you shining” from The Weeknd’s I Can't Wait To Get There . In this context, darkness is not emptiness but th...
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RESEARCH PROJECT– THE TEXT: THE IRREDUCIBLE PLURAL

 HEDI SLIMANE Looking at Hedi Slimane’s work through Roland Barthes’ idea of the Text helps me see fashion and photography in a new way. Slimane’s photos and designs are not meant to give one clear meaning. Instead, they are full of signs, feelings, and cultural references that the viewer must explore. Barthes says a Text is something we move through, not something we just understand once and for all. Slimane’s black-and-white style, focus on youth and music, and lack of direct explanation make his work open to many different meanings. His art is like a space where ideas cross over each other, creating a mix of feelings and thoughts. This makes each person’s experience of his work personal and different. Understanding this helped me see that art does not always need to explain itself. Sometimes, its power comes from letting the viewer find their own meaning. Slideshow Slimane presentation package
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Journaling project 3

 Roland Barthes writes, “To play is to make music, to listen is to hear it as meaningful, and between these, there is a third space—the music’s own erotic.” (p152). This idea helps me rethink the dynamics between sound, image, and audience in my experimental film, particularly the scene where two mute individuals converse in sign language without subtitles. Instead of guiding interpretation with words, I want the film to invite the audience into a sensory experience where understanding arises through gesture and musical atmosphere—where listening becomes tactile. The private side of the project includes scripting, sound design, editing, and working alone in the studio with music fragments and silent footage. But once shown, it becomes public: performed as a film and interpreted by viewers, each bringing their own listening to it. The absence of subtitles challenges traditional viewing and creates space for what Barthes calls a “tangible intelligibility”, a moment where meaning is ...
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Journaling Project 2

 Roland Barthes says in The Death of the Author that we should stop thinking of the author as the one true source of meaning. Instead, a work (whether a book or a film) is a space where many ideas, influences, and voices mix. As he puts it, it’s not a single message from an “Author-God,” but a “multi-dimensional space” (p146). That idea influenced how I made my experimental film, extending further than set design and text components, this time I was thinking about the concept, the production as the whole. I didn’t want to tell viewers exactly what to think or feel. I would use disconnected images, very little dialogue ( similar as my previous idea), and scenes that don’t follow a clear story. I want viewers to bring their own ideas, emotions, and experiences to the film and find meaning for themselves. I don’t think of the film as totally original either. I borrowed styles and techniques from other filmmakers and artists. It’s more like remixing than inventing. In that way, my r...
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JOURNALING PROJECT No. 1

Journal  During the past week, I've been thinking about the first two messages of the 3 that I will build my film around. First one is the linguistic, and a quote from the book made me rewrite part of the script and improved my dialogue writings way better- that is,  " Does the image duplicate certain of the informations given in the text by a phenomenon of redundancy or does the text add a fresh information to the image ? (p38) This made me think about how I've been building my scenes and it has always been building it from the photography standpoint first. I would need a structured and well built or well planned set for me to work on, as elements in the set will always have symbolic meaning that helps with the delivery of the message. So the text in the dialogue is not only to serve as a description of what is going on the film, nor I want it be how the story will be told straight out, but as quoted  " When it comes to the 'symbolic message', the linguistic ...
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FINAL PROJECT PROPOSAL

Another Experimental Short Film by Nhat Minh Nguyen  Presentation After the 2 film projects I had in ART240, I was very interested in film and motion picture media since it involved so many mediums and components that effectively evoke emotion as well as delivering messages. This time, with the new book of Image, Music and Text, which are the three things I have been experimenting with in the 240 class, in which the two movies had thoroughly planned set with each component has its meaning, which tied into the imagery and aesthetic. The music in both short films that I made was used to carry the film's narrative and the text was experimented with bold in the scene or complete absent of it. This time, with the further analysis on the types messages of image ( The Linguistic Message, The Coded - Iconic Message and the  The Non Coded - Iconic Message) I look forward to further experiment and enhance the media's message deliveries by using different methods and juxtaposition of Ima...
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