Multi Media Art
Paper for Origami used in children’s fortune telling game, Text.
(Instructions for the interactive art piece. Refer the images below) Instead of different colours written traditionally on four
sides, ‘the future’ that is written behind the flaps is written on the front
too. The player needs to choose one future and move the fingers saying the
chosen future out loud and stop when it ends. Then like the traditional game,
the player needs to choose a number and move the fingers spelling the number
out loud.
Next, the player chooses a number out of the visible numbers again which is when the flap of the chosen number is revealed. If it matches with what the player chooses at the beginning then the player is declared to be a winner. If it doesn't match then player can play till it does.
Next, the player chooses a number out of the visible numbers again which is when the flap of the chosen number is revealed. If it matches with what the player chooses at the beginning then the player is declared to be a winner. If it doesn't match then player can play till it does.
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Paper fortune teller is something that has found its place in children’s games
across generations, and nations. This origami-based game of chance is one of
the earliest encounters one has with the concept of fortune-telling. The
mystery of revealing the future written behind these flaps which the player
arrives at, after making random choices, builds the anticipation and is given
importance at the varying degree.
Only
when the future becomes our present, we are able to ‘look back’ to make a
connection between the desires we had and how it led us to our futures. The
existence of the desire is revealed when it is fulfilled in the future.
Since ‘looking back’ establishes the desires we have had as a
revelation, with this multimedia piece, I am using the interactivity and trying
to play with the connection between present desires and future actions by
removing time’s linear definitions with turning the game upside down, and using
the present desires as revelation, envisaging the possibility of lack of
difference between present desires and future actions.
Following is the
Photo Series that is to be displayed on the wall and a stack of paper fortune-teller game will be placed on a table adjacent to this wall. The viewer can pick up the game and interact with it.
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