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Master's Thesis — ArtSide
2017-2018
Supervisor: Cassini Nazir, Clinical Associate Professor School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication The University of Texas at Dallas
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Public art creates a sense of pride and community identity. It represents the public history of cities, enriches the culture, and reflects public thinking in society. Public art can create meaningful relationships between cities and their citizens.
ArtSide, is a mobile prototype that connects individuals to public art and provides a social platform to interact with others about the pieces.
Ultimately, my thesis was awarded a HASTAC scholarship, and as a Lead Presenter, I was selected to present at two conferences: the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) and the ResearchArt-Writing Conference at UT Dallas.
Learn more about the design process at
kuoweilee.design/artside-design-process
Acknowledgements
Many thanks to Cassini Nazir, Roger Malina, Greg Metz, Vic Simon, Joyce Hong, Shruthy Sreepathy, Yusra Khan, the faculty of The University of Texas at Dallas, and the members of ArtSciLab. View the subject-matter expert interviews at goo.gl/2YSAKM.
2017-2018
Interactive sessions engaged people to provide opinions, experiences, and stories. The problem we've got is that journal is an app feature where user can write about their experience with public art, add images/videos and share it with others. This feature was design in the conventional way how most social media platforms provide. We wanted to come out of this conventional way of hash tag, image gallery and selfies. We’d like to build a space where sharing their experience with public art itself becomes an experience and an opportunity to think and write creatively. Three one-hour interactive workshops allowed participants to share their personal insights into public art and perspectives about how technology can be used to enhance the experience of public art. I gathered the artifacts produced during the workshops to provoke creative possibilities for ArtSide - Visual Poetry.
Learn more about the workshops at
kuoweilee.design/design-workshops
Acknowledgements
Workshop Co-hosts: Shruthy Sreepathy, Yusra Khan ArSide’s Visual Poetry Feature derived from the workshops
