The sequence functions through the synchronization of live bodily action (the dive) with technologically mediated imagery (the animated underwater visuals). In this sense, the stage becomes a responsive environment, recalling the logic of interaction art, in which a system reacts dynamically to human movement or presence. Although the audience does not directly manipulate the visuals, their perceptual and affective engagement completes the work: the illusion of immersion is contingent upon their willingness to accept the interplay of real and virtual space.

From an artistic perspective, this moment aligns with the trajectory of interaction art by foregrounding the co-existence of performer, technology, and audience. The performer’s movement “activates” the digital stage, while the audience’s collective response gives the illusion its cultural and experiential meaning. Thus, the concert sequence can be interpreted as an application of interaction art principles within mainstream entertainment, demonstrating how interactive aesthetics extend beyond gallery contexts into large-scale, popular cultural productions.

So what is interactive art?

Interaction art is a form of contemporary art where the audience’s participation is essential for the artwork to exist or be complete. Unlike traditional art that you just look at, interaction art invites you to touch, move, speak, walk through, or digitally engage with it.

There are some 5 design core characterisitcs.

• Participation is Required

  • The audience isn’t passive — they activate the work through movement, voice, or decisions.

• Dynamic & Responsive

  • The artwork changes in real time depending on the participant’s actions.

• Technology as Medium

  • Often uses sensors, cameras, software, VR/AR, projections, sound systems, robotics.

• Co-Creation

  • The audience becomes a co-author of the piece, not just a viewer.

• Focus on Experience

  • The meaning of the artwork lies in the process of interaction, not just the object itself.

After having individual time, we presented our ideas about the research that we did.

I am the person who is curious of the daily life in other country. Thus, first, the 2nd-floors bus and mrt came to my mind, and then I started to think of the streets.

I tried to think of the things that I see on the street on the way to bus and mrt station.

I thought of the interesting living things that I could not see in my home country.

Thus, I found some pictures of the animals that were unique in Singapore. The animals are Oriental Pied Hornbill, Slender Squirrel, Javan Myna, chicken, and etc.

Base on my research, Kapilan gave some more photos of fruits and flowers. Thus, he gave me a help to think more wide that I could not know and think about.

Though the research, I could came up with the brief ideas of my work.

• The ambient quality in a lounge should create a sense of calmness and relaxation, reducing the stress and fatigue of travel.

• Visuals, sound, and interaction should remain subtle rather than overwhelming.

2. Background, Not Distraction

• Ambient design does not dominate attention but supports the overall atmosphere.

• Digital interactions should feel natural and harmonious, blending into the environment instead of demanding constant focus.

3. Connection to Place

• In the context of Singapore, the ambient feel could draw on local elements — gentle natural imagery (water, greenery, tropical light) or cultural motifs — to provide a sense of belonging and identity.

4. Temporal Sensitivity

• Since travelers use lounges at different times (day/night, short stay/long wait), the ambience should feel adaptive: soft lighting tones, shifting visuals, or responsive soundscapes that subtly change with time of day.

Therefore, the ambient in the lounge should feel like a soft, living background: visually calm, gently responsive to presence, locally inspired, and adaptive over time. The interaction should be minimal and non-intrusive, offering travelers comfort, subtle engagement, and a sense of place during transition.

Base on the given movement setting, I changed the speed and the background color and the number of the pictures to give the feeling and mood that is related to the pictures that I chose.

It was not that much easy, but it was nice experience to try the codes and give the movements in there.

experiment1: https://editor.p5js.org/kangbona/full/28SIJOOqU

experiment2: https://editor.p5js.org/kangbona/full/xcEU0BIDp

Divergent thinking is a cognitive process in which multiple creative ideas are freely generated to solve a problem or address a task.

• Instead of seeking a single correct answer, it focuses on exploring as many alternatives and new possibilities as possible.

• It is closely related to creativity, with flexibility, variety, and originality as its core elements.

Later on, from divergent thinking it goes more deeper to the convergent thinking.

This mood transforms flowers and animals into dreamlike characters, creating a playful atmosphere that blurs reality and imagination. Animals may wear floral crowns, flowers may float like balloons, and hybrid creatures could emerge. The overall feeling is whimsical, colorful, and slightly surreal—inviting viewers to step into a childlike wonderland where the ordinary becomes extraordinary.

Most traditional patterns were inspired by flowers, and I drew from this to create a cultural mood. Another idea was to incorporate elements like old post seals—objects once passed through human hands—which can evoke a nostalgic, historical feeling. Lastly, I explored the atmosphere of old fairy tales, where animals run and play in warm, inviting scenes. This fairy-tale quality helps convey a cultural and timeless sensibility.

Among four, I liked the color of the concept with the fresh foods. It is not strong color, but gives colorful and fun mood. With the collage of the food, it shows the face of the person. Thus, I thought that was interesting point to put.

Also, I thought that an installation where a machine recognizes a person’s face and then generates a food collage that matches their features could also become an engaging exhibition, allowing people to interact in a playful way.

• In design/art: Ambient works blend into the space, influencing how people feel without demanding their full attention.

Active means direct, attention-grabbing, and requiring engagement. It calls on people to do something or focus intentionally.

• In design/art: Active works need explicit interaction—touching, playing, responding.

We chose the Flora, Fauna & Cultural as the final idea. Base on that, we just added some playful and energetic parts.

In Singapore, there are many nature landscapes and greenery locals encounter daily, so we wanted visitor to know about that not only famous landmarks. It is common in daily life because, Singapore is focusing on nature and city coexistence like well-planned urban structure, and reinforces Singapore's identity as a "Garden City"

One more reason is Singapore is a country that is built up base on the Chinese, Malay, Indian, and other countries. Thus, we can see those diversity spaces that reflects those countries.

At first, we were discussing among flora & playful and flora & cultural. Because, for playful one, we already have the final outcome in our imagination, but it could be too obvious. On the other hand, flora & cultural, we can come out with new kinds of style, but it could be challenging for us. Therefore, after some discussion, we decided to mix the two concepts and come up to new ideas.

From the playful one, we brought the idea of real flowers floating around. For cultural, we use geometric shapes, active lions walking around. From the foreground to background, we placed those ideas in orders.

The boxes will be in all different sizes and different visuals.

Then real flowers will float around and gather together and will become the lion shape.

In this elements, flowers will be India, Singapore, Chinese, and Malaysia national flowers. Animal will be lion because it is the animal that is representing Singapore.

Base on the feedback, we need to make the steps more simpler and focused on the geometric shape. Thus, we were discussing ideas that how are we going to make the transformation of geometric shapes. We came up with many different ideas like dividing screen in to square shape and fill the space with flower like tile or making floating circle shape and make that a flower. In conclusion, we decide to do with the bubbles to flowers.

Foreground:

Floating circle shapes ( bubbles) all over the screen, responding to user interaction.

Midground:

Floating bubbles become smaller, and the small center of the flowers keep on floats around and ready for the flowers leaves to come up.

Background:

From the center of the circle shape of the flower stamen, the leaves come out and become the flower.

When it goes back to the foreground,

1. the flowers become smaller and leaves disappear and become the bubbles.

2. the flower becomes bigger and fill the screen, flower leaves are flow away, and becomes the bubbles.

I also changed the background to light sky-blue to show the smooth feeling through the moving.

Base on this exercise, I could think about more opportunities and more detailed ideas that how the movement can be, and how can I interact that to my own work.

experiment:

https://editor.p5js.org/kangbona/full/fw0kD5_O6

Through this class, we analyzed the final story of the interaction that we will work on. It is important to have the clear story line, so people can have the ideas and understand our work.

But, not even the story, we had more checklist that we need to make sure of. Like the screen sizes, the distance from the people and the screen, and how it will interact with people.

Thus, it was helpful for us to think more deeply about the work, and it became a step that we can imagine our work more precise and clear.

For us, we are planning to use the whole screen as one. Base on this screen size we discussed more about the details.

First of all, we taught about the number of people who are coming near to see the screen. When one person just comes to see, flowers will change one by one. But if many people come at the same time, flowers will change all together almost in same time.

Second discussion was about the size of flowers and bubbles. Base on the size how big it will be. Thus, we made the artboard on the illustration and checked the sizes.

Those 10 flowers are from the country that are related to Singapore. For the unity, we decided to use the national flower of each country.

We had checklists for the country that we choose.

1. Is that country is having good relationship with Singapore.

2. How is it related to Singapore?

(1) Many people from that national is leaving in Singapore

(2) Having good Political relations

(3) Historically related

Base on those checklists, we researched 10 national flowers.

1. Chinese flower (Peony)

2. India flower (Lotus)

3. Singapore flower (Orchid)

4. Malaysia flower (Hibiscus)

5. England flower (Rose)

6. Indonesia (White Jasmine)

7. Australia (Acacia Pycnantha)

8. Japanese (Cherry Blossom)

9. Korea (Rose of Sharon)

10. Thailand (Golden Shower Tree)

Base on the flowers that I designed last time. We created 3/4/4 flowers each. I designed the 10 flowers among there.

50cm, 40cm, 30cm

Itali (Daisy)

Ukraine(Sunflower)

So, finally we got all 12 flowers.

We checked the detail of each flowers and changed some details to make all consistent.

We were told that with the coding we can set the timeline and make the background change automatically after the time.

Thus, we came up with the 3 different options for the background, and we will talk about this next week.

The gradation color background is matching well with the flower elements.

The flower elements are more on antic vibes. Thus, if we go with gradation color, it is more on modern vibes. Thus, the antic and modern vibes can cooperate well.

And through the work we created, I hope that people in the lounge can feel as if they are blossoming into a new version of themselves as they encounter a fresh environment. I want the lounge to be a space where such anticipation begins. Just like my dreamlike soap bubbles drifting without a fixed form eventually bloom into flowers, I hope that each traveler’s journey will unfold step by step in the same hopeful way.