"Right Angle"
Section MS3, Linn Phyllis Seeger
Keywords: encryption, animation, moving image, built environment
The project explores the connection between the encryption of physical space and the encryption of data, demonstrating the connection between the two through animation experiments. The project started when I discovered that the right-angled passage space in life is encrypted for people, and people cannot see the information behind the corner. The encryption of physical space is formed in real life due to specific factors of space and environment, which is manifested in that the line of sight or body is blocked or restricted. Physical space encryption can be understood as that in the real world, certain spaces or environments are designed or naturally formed so that information is restricted. Data encryption protects information by converting data into a form that only authorized users can interpret. This conversion often uses complex algorithms and keys, making the encrypted data unable to be accessed or understood by unauthorized users. By scanning and collecting right-angled blind spots in public spaces, residential areas and transportation hubs, I discovered that these blind spots are prevalent and we are surrounded by potential dangers and uncertainties, which inspired me to conduct further artistic experiments, simulating them through stop-motion animation. A world where information is inaccessible. In the animation, the 2D perspective is used to introduce the individual into the right-angled space, and then the collected physical corner blind spots are placed, and these corners are converted into 3D models. Next, the video pictures are converted into pixels one by one, and then the images are blurred through software, and finally made into videos. This process is a process from physical encryption space to data visual encryption, trying to simulate a world where information is completely inaccessible and showing the transformation from physical space encryption to data encryption. Through animation experiments on the project, I found that both physical space encryption and data encryption create invisibility and inaccessibility, triggering fear and insecurity about the unknown, and there are similarities and fluidities between the two. It provides new perspectives and ways of thinking for exploring physical space encryption and digital space encryption.