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Tina Gonsalves uses many mediums to convey ideas including video, painting, and animation. Her main theme is “externalizing the internal- revealing what lay beneath the skin” and she aims to “explore how her artwork could probe the audiences” emotional body. One of her installations, called the “Feel” series, interacts with the audience by provoking a psychological response. The videos were made with the combination of art, neuroscience, and technology. The installation works like this: the viewers go into a room, sensors detect the viewer’s emotional states by monitoring body movement and a large projection of the artist’s face copies the emotional state of the audience. For example, if the viewers are relaxed the artist’s face is still. If the viewers are anxious the artist’s face shows anxiety and if that anxiety continues, the artist will cry. The audience catches on and has to figure out how to soothe her. The artist aimed for the audience to feel a “sense of presence, empathy and catharsis in the viewer.” I think this piece was affective, because the audience, after the experience, said that they felt vulnerable. This piece was affective in getting an internal reaction from the audience.

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Armella Diane Leung She has done many types of art works including photography, drawings, graphic design, interactive work, web, and 2d or 3d animation and video. One installation is “The Dreaming Pillow,” where a projection is placed on a pillow; the audience influences the movement of the projections, as if they are “diving into a dream.” The viewer can see words, random pieces of a story, and a lot of imagery. The artist wants the viewer to get “lost between dream and reality.” When the view stops touching the pillow the dream will fade away. I think this is an interesting concept, and I imagine it was a fun interactive activity. I can see how people could get lost in the imagery, words, and fragmented stories.

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