Digital Hybrid Mural Module by Dr. Martie Geiger-Ho

Dear All,

Dr. Martie Geiger-Ho, one of our participating artists, would like to share her digital hybrid mural module with all of you. 

Prof. Kong Ho

Although I have only been in Brunei Darussalam for about a week, I already feel the vibrancy of this lovely place. It is very spiritual here in the sense that the activities of people are culturally interwoven into the patterns of the natural world. This is the feeling that I wanted to capture in my digital image.

Dr. Martie Geiger-Ho

Martie Geiger-Ho. Life in Brunei. 2011. Digital art.

A Sample of Digital Hybrid Mural Module

Dear All,

Herewith are some digital images showing you the development process of my digital hybrid mural module. As we have mentioned in our project flyer that your digital hybrid mural module can be either just an outstanding digital photograph or a computer-generated image with your own photograph. The following sample reveals the action command of Adobe Photoshop which can help you to manipulate the image to generate an intriguing result from a single motif. 

Prof. Kong Ho

Kong Ho. Transfiguration of Space. 2011. Digital art. 

Original photo of bird-of-paradise.

Cut-out-flower image in Photoshop with black background. 

Apply the "Action" command twice to duplicate the flower motif with resizing of 20% and rotating of 20% in 2 separate layers.

Duplicate with Action command to form 6 layers image.

After applying tenth of Action command to form 10 layers image.

Murals Guided Tour & Photography Workshop

On behalf of the Visions of Brunei research project and all participants, I would like to thank two and half research assistants, Iskandar Hassan, Nazreen Amin and Fizah Rahman, for their work in organizing this wonderful murals guided tour and photography workshop. They worked hard in researching the history behind the murals and cultural sites. Later, we will post the data we collected on this blog to share with all of you. Anyway, I hope this wonderful experience in appreciating the actual murals in a close distance will allow you all have better understanding of public murals and some inspirations for your "Visions of Brunei" digital module mural design. 

I have posted four pictures of our visited sites at the following: 

Unity in Diversity is created by 2000 APEC art ambassadors and displayed on the wall of the entrance lobby of the International Convention Center.

His Borneo is created by Pengiran Asmalee bin Pengiran Ahmad and displayed on the facade of the Public Library in Bandar Seri Begawan.

Open Market of Tamu Kianggeh locates in the heart of the City of Bandar Seri Begawan.

Panorama view of Water Front Kampong Ayer.

Panorama view of Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin (SOAS) Mosque.

Close-up view of Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin (SOAS) Mosque.

Guided Murals Tour and Photography Workshop

Dear VOB Digital Hybrid Mural Participating Artists,


Our one-day guided murals tour and photography workshop is scheduled on Saturday, 17 December 2011. I hope all of you can join this tour and workshop in order to have a better understanding of existing murals and public art in Brunei and its diverse cultural heritage. Please send your reply to Iskandar Hasnan, research assistant, by Monday, 12 Dec. 2011. Herewith is the tour programme and schedule:

Copyright and Permission Release Forms

Dear All Digital Hybrid Mural Participating Artists,


Please remember to download these two forms from Google Doc or from the blog post and return the completed forms to me with your digital module mural design on the due date of December 31, 2011. You have to ask the parent or legal guardian to sign the permission and release form if your image include any child under 18 years old. Thanks.


Assoc. Prof. Kong Ho

CREATIVE INDUSTRIES RESEARCH CLUSTER (CIRC)

University of Brunei Darussalam

PERMISSION AND RELEASE FORM

TO BE SIGNED BY YOUR PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN IF YOU ARE UNDER 18 YEARS OLD

I, ________________________________________________________, or the parent/legal guardian of ____________________________________________, a child under the age of eighteen (18), consent to the inclusion and display of  my or my child's picture and artwork as described below.

By signing this document, I acknowledge that I or my child has participated in academic research activities conducted by ________________________ ("Artist") of Visions of Brunei: A Cultural Free-to-All Visual Experience of Digital Hybrid Mural, Creative Industries Research Cluster (CIRC) of the University of Brunei Darussalam (UBD) and grant my consent to the inclusion of electronic documentation of my or my child's image, pictures taken during project activities and/or artwork as part of output images for the Visions of Brunei: A Cultural Free-to-All Visual Experience of Digital Hybrid Mural research project.

I understand and agree that electronic documentation submitted as part of the individual artist's submissions to the Visions of Brunei: A Cultural Free-to-All Visual Experience of Digital Hybrid Mural project may be utilised and displayed in the following ways:

1. Display, alteration and/or cropping in the process of creating a digital hybrid mural and related merchandises;
2. Educational research and evaluation of this research project by the CIRC of UBD; and
3. Public display via the CIRC's blog, UBD's website and any other electronic formats deemed suitable, and/or in printed materials and public places.

I consent to the use of my or my child's name and details of my or his/her image, pictures taken during project activities and production, and/or artwork itself at any stage of the production and/or merchandising process without restriction and without compensation to me.

I understand and agree that neither I nor my child will have any right of approval of or claim arising out of any electronic use of my or my child's images, pictures taken during project activities  and/or artwork by CIRC, including but not limited to claims based on defamation, right of privacy or publicity, and intellectual property. I acknowledge that CIRC will rely on this permission potentially at substantial cost to itself and hereby agree not to assert any claim of any nature whatsoever against anyone relating to the exercise of the permissions granted hereunder and not to seek any compensation for such use. CIRC may use submitted electronic documentation at its sole discretion and nothing herein shall obligate CIRC to utilise my or my child's images, pictures taken during project activities and/or artwork in any manner descibed herein.

Signature IC # (and color) Date

Copyright Release Agreement Form

CREATIVE INDUSTRIES RESEARCH CLUSTER (CIRC)

UNIVERSITY OF BRUNEI DARUSSALAM

COPYRIGHT RELEASE AGREEMENT

Name: Telephone:
Address:

I hereby grant the Creative Industries Research Cluster (CIRC) of the University of Brunei Darussalam (UBD) the right to use, re-use, publish, re-publish, produce, reproduce and distribute the image, _________________________________________________ (Title of work), as part of the digital hybrid mural project electronically, and any use on the Internet, such as  website and blog; publications, advertising, promotional and educational materials; souvenirs and merchandise without restriction; and the right to own the artifact of the final digital hybrid mural as part of the collections of the UBD.

I also understand that I will be credited by name and title for my work. I shall retain ownership of the copyright to my artwork image which is conceived and created by me. CIRC shall maintain a copyright notice on any electronic, printed materials or merchandise that contains the artwork or a part of the artwork as a part of the digital hybrid mural:  2012 CIRC, UBD

I understand that this copyright release agreement is for reproduction of my artwork itself and related images at any stage of the production process and/or merchandising of this digital hybrid mural and that layout and design decisions rest solely with the staff of CIRC.  Details of, derivative compositions, and cropping the original artwork is permissible at CIRC's discretion.

I authorize CIRC to use the image of my artwork for any promotional and for-sale materials. In return for this agreement I will receive $100(BND) as a one(off) stipend.

Artist

Signature IC # and color Date

CIRC

Signature Date

Kong Ho, Associate Professor of Art, Visions of Brunei Research Project Leader

Digital Hybrid Mural Image Requirements & Steps

Please set up a new Adobe Photoshop file for your digital discrete module mural design based on the following requirements and steps: 
1. Open a new file under File by click at New
2. Type a name for your discrete mural under Name
3. Enter 3072 pixels for the Width (make sure you select pixels as unit under the pop-up selection
4. Enter 3072 pixels for the Height
5. Enter 300 pixels/inch for Resolution
6. Select RGB Color for the Color Mode and 8 bit
7. Select White for the Background Contents
8. Your Image Size will be 27MB
9. Then click OK
10. Remember to save your working file as Photoshop with the extension of psd
11. After complete your digital discrete module mural, you will select Flatten Image under Layer to combine all layers to become a background
12. Then save your file as Jpeg under Format of the Save As window

Follow up after Digital Hybrid Mural Workshop

Thanks a lot for your support and participation in today's digital hybrid mural workshop at the IBM Center. Some of you have told me to post today's Powerpoint onto our blog. It seems that Google blog only allow to insert image and video. So I think I will resize the file and upload it to the LMS WizLearn under a new module, Digital Hybrid Mural Workshop, and add all your names under the user list. Then you can go there to download the presentation. I will post the digital image requirement on next post for you to set up a new Photoshop file for your discrete module mural design. Also, I will send the invitation to you via Gmail for you to access the information posted on this blog. Again, thanks a lot for your time and support to this visual arts research project.

Reminder of Digital Hybrid Mural Workshop

Dear All Participating Artists,

Our Digital Hybrid Mural Workshop & Visual Arts Forum will be take place in the Mac Lab (Lab 3), 1st floor of IBM Center, ICTC tomorrow, Thursday, 3 November 2011, at 10 am to 12 noon and 1:30 to 3:30 pm. Please bring one or two digital images for imaging workshop in the afternoon session. There will be a refreshment in between two sessions. 

Application

If interested, please fill in the application form printed on the opposite page and submit it by 15 October  2011 to:

Visions of Brunei

Assoc. Prof. Kong Ho

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

University of Brunei Darussalam

Jalan Tungku Link, Gadong

Bandar Seri Begawan, BE1410

Email: shuikong.ho@ubd.edu.bn

Office: +673 246 3001 ext. 1768

Fax: +673 246 1528

Successful applicants will receive notification via email approximately two weeks after the application deadline.

Timetable

Oct. 2011 – Recruiting period

Nov. 3, 2011 – Digital hybrid mural workshop

Nov. 5, 2011 – Guided murals tour in Brunei

Nov. 2011 – Production period for individual mural design module

Dec. 17, 2011 – Completion date for final mural design modules and photo or image release forms

Jan. 2012 – Production stage of digital hybrid mural, presentation and souvenir designs

Feb. 2012 – Completion date for final digital hybrid mural and presentation

April 2012 – Creative Industries Festival, Opening Ceremony and presentation

Stipend & Responsibilities

Each participating artist or student will receive an $100 honorarium upon completion of his or her mural design module.

Participants should follow the given format and requirements in preparing their images and submitting the final design before the due date.

Then each module mural design will be enlarged and printed on the fabric to the size of one square meter. After that, 24 individual digital mural modules will be joined together to form a 6 meters  high by 4 meters wide digital hybrid mural.

Also, each participant will be invited to participate in the digital mural workshop, guided mural tour, online discussion forum and attend the Creative Industries Festival Opening Ceremony in April 2012 at the Mall.

Project Objectives

This studio-based research project will bring artists and students together so that they can brainstorm and learn as a group while still being able to produce a section of a mural for which they are responsible. A hybrid hanging digitally printed mural would seem to be an ideal medium for showcasing Brunei’s emerging and established visual artists to the public.

This experience will help to prepare these artists and UBD students to contribute to the project and further promote their innovative ideas, knowledge and dedication to the cause of developing Brunei’s creative industries at an international level.

Visions of Brunei will be a collaborative multimedia art project involving as many as 24 talented artists and UBD art students. The final hybrid mural will consist of 24 modules digitally printed as a large-scale mural on fabric.

All of the digital art images that will be incorporated into the mural will be works of art that have been created using computer graphic technology. These art images may either be digital photographs or computer generated images that have been manipulated to achieve their final compositions.

The final dimensions of this digital hybrid mural will depend on the largest industrial printing capabilities that Brunei has to offer and the expected mural dimensions will be 6 meters high by 4 meters wide. The expected dimensions of each ndividual module mural will be one square meter.

There will be a 10-minute multimedia presentation of how this digital hybrid mural was designed and fabricated. This research project not only showcases potential creative talents in Brunei, but also by giving artists and students a chance to actualise their ideas, it helps to provide them with an important means for sharing their visions of Brunei’s cultural identity.

It is important for the participating creative talents and the public to become more engaged with and aware of the importance of artistic expression and its impact on cultural, economic, social and geographical issues that are part of the dynamics for the development of the creative industries in Brunei.

Through this studio-based research project, 24 creative talents will bring their new visions and perspectives together to create an energetic large digital hybrid mural. Visions of Brunei will provide a means for the general public to understand better the perceptual world of a diverse range of contemporary creative talents.

Furthermore, this pilot scheme project will help to open the door between the public and the visions of creative talents who are destined to become the backbone of Brunei’s creative industries.