Video showed on Demo Day

Testing

Wednesday we were testing the set with dancers Anna Salmi and Daniel Suominen while Oona was giving them instructions.

The set was build up into the Media Lab's ministudio.

MediaLab Helsinki's Demo Day

We will present our project at the MediaLab Demo Day on 18th of December at the University of Art & Design Helsinki at the MediaLab.

Test shots for choreography

Plans for the set

Storyborad for the Wedding & Death

Storyborad for the Birth

Accessories and clothes

Note! Some clothes are missing from these photos.

Sketch for the video

A big part of the installation will be the video. Our idea is to combine the three rites of passage (birth, wedding and death) in a visually interesting way. Here is Oona's and Mercede's sketch for it:

The video is filmed 17 times, each time with different outfits. After filming the material will be edited into an interactive video with 17 different layers that the viewer will be able to switch at the installation.

An installation + Website documentation

After browsing through plenty of interesting YouTube material, NEiD project pictures and sharing our knowledge from our previous projects, the form of the Rites of Passage visualization started to clear up.

We decided to build up an installation, which includes a room and within the room is a video projected (and controlled interactively). The theme of the video is birth, wedding and death and most of the clothes and accessories designed for the NEiD 2008 project will be presented on the video.

Among the installation we will create a website which will include the same video as at the installation + background information of the objects and outfits that was seen on the video.

Inspirational material

Here are some of the videos we found interesting at the start of our project. Saskia Olde Wolbers, David Lynch, Six Feet Under:







All of our inspirational material can be found as a list of links on the right side menu.

Who are we?

Students:
Tara Pattenden - Media Lab Helsinki
Ramyah Gowrishankar - Media Lab Helsinki
Liisa Tervinen - Media Lab Helsinki
Jari Suominen - Media Lab Helsinki
Anna Kotila-Row - Media Lab Helsinki
Markku Ruotsalainen - Media Lab Helsinki
Oona Colliander - Fashion and clothing design
Mercedes Pino Lopez - Fine Arts / Scenography

Supervisor:
Oskari Pastila - Media Lab Helsinki Alumni, Media artist

Producerl:
Pipsa Asiala - Media Lab Helsinki

Background info of the project

Background info:

The NEiD-project

The NEiD (New European Identity)–project i is a collaboration between four European schools of art and design. The participants are Helsinki University of Art and Design, Design Academy Eindhoven, and Iceland Academy of the Arts. The aim and purpose of NEiD, was for students of fashion, textile and jewelry design to research their European heritage and folklore in order to find new ways of interpreting the European identity.

The theme for NEiD 2008 was Rites of Passage: birth, wedding and death. Each student made their personal research on one of these topics both in their home country as well as in one of the other four countries. The students worked individually on their personal projects in order to create new designs. This has resulted in new design that reflects a New European Identity.

We continue the results of the workshop to the digital environment building up our own story and visual images.