Contextual

Mr Kok Yoong ask us to define the actual context about our project. In my understanding, my project is about an unknown symbols from the crop circles that has been related with supernatural things and conspiracy theory. I tend to create a new kind of "Crop Circle" based on interactive installation using an electronic LED's (Dot Matrix) on a board.

From what I understand, my project covers 4 context as advice by Mr Kok Yoong.

-Historical Context

-Social Context

-Political Context

-Institutional Context

Historical Context

1. UFO incident near Roswell, New Mexico that started the extraterrestrial phenomenon in June or July 1947

2. People started to pay attention about the unidentified flying object and related them to the military aircraft

Social Context

1. After the famous Roswell incident, many science fiction movies / tv series started to take place in entertainment industries (The X-Files, Star Wars, Star Trek, ET, Independence Day)

2. New Pop Culture / trend about extraterrestrial and alien and people started to make money of it's popularity (Alien Workshop)

3. The discovery of Crop Circle became a new form of art for the designers and artists.

Political Context

1. Some believe that the government wants to divert people's attention about the global or local problems such as war crisis in the middle east, economy crisis, education crisis and the political crisis in the United States.

2. Some also believe that the government tend to generate fear among their citizens about the possibilities of war against the aliens from outer space.

3. Many weapons of mass destruction were produce as a national security excuse

4. Big countries fought each other for blaming that the UFO is actually a spy plane for spying an enemy, this create more excuses for more war.

Institutional Context

1. More people back to religious institutions because they are afraid of the unidentified extraterrestrial threats.