Antonius Wiriadjaja combines techniques from creative writing, cognitive science, and guerrilla theatre to tell stories in new media.
His work has appeared in THEME Magazine, Opiummagazine.com, Monkeybicycle Issue 5, BSRM Magazine, Living Now, and The Reader, Spring ‘04.
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NYU Tisch ITP: Video for New Media: Summer 2010.
A play on The Vanishing Lady by G. Melies, 1896.
Starring the Magnificent Ang Tong Lee and Suki Suki
Music: Kevin MacLeod
As displayed within the Penny Veil Show Installation
Thanks to Gabe Barcia-Colombo for his guidance and instruction.
Assignment for VFNM: Create a “Screaming” video patch! Post to blog! I’m not much of a screamer, so I did a video patch that reacted to clapping instead.
Full Max Patch after the jump.
Assignment for Video for New Media: Create a documentary of a specific intersection in New York City.
A collaboration between Sarah Weaver, Yukiko Shimizu and Antonius Wiriadjaja.
Assignment for Video for New Media: Find a Missed Connection on Craigslist and create a series of still photographs (10 Photos MIN/MAX) which visually depicts this micro story. Create a video composed completely from these stills.
Assignment: Two studies related in format, one depicting an animal as cute and the other as monstrous.
My classmate Benji and I worked together on our midterm for Animals People and Things in Between. We decided very early on that we wanted to depict the lamb as an both an object of worship and as a creature getting sacrificed. We submitted this draft as our midterm, but plan to reedit the video and remix the sound thanks to the wonderful and helpful critiques we received.
Proposal:
Creating a VoIP Phonebook that gives people access to their contacts without relying on a physical device.
Background:
This semester, I am taking Redial: Interactive Telephony at Tisch’s ITP with prof. Chris Kairalla and my midterm, a VoIP phonebook, will be part of a larger calling card system.
From my conversations with outreach and social workers, homeless individuals who are given communication tools such as cell phones, voice mail or phone cards tend to regain a sense of identity and show more desire to attain housing and employment. Organizations who support them also benefit in being able to communicate with, locate, and build better rapport with their homeless clients.
By using a VoIP phonebook, clients do not have to rely on a written list or on a cell phone’s memory to access their contacts, useful for when a client loses a phone or it runs out of electrical charge/funds. It can be accessed from any device that can call the phonebook’s number.
Connecting Cultures
Monday, March 1, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Cave Canem Foundation 20 Jay Street, Suite 310-A Brooklyn, NY 11201
A reading followed by complimentary wine and cheese reception
to celebrate 40 years of Readings/Workshops in NYC!
In celebration of our 40th anniversary, Poets & Writers presents Connecting Cultures, our inaugural cross-cultural reading. Since 1970, P&W’s Readings/Workshops program has sponsored thousands of literary events, connecting diverse writers with diverse audiences, in neighborhoods throughout the city. We are delighted to celebrate with some of the outstanding authors who are part of this ongoing initiative. Come and hear the work of the following writers and other special guests, all of whom have participated in P&W-supported readings and workshops.
Featuring…
NeNe Ali Heather Archibald Renee Michele Breeden Margaret Cox Jonathan Betts Fields Robert Gibbons Beatriz Gil Juliet P. Howard Tsaurah Litzky Kyla Marshell Jessica Maldonado Viviann Rodriguez J.F. Seary Margarita Soto Rhina Valentin and Antonius Wiriadjaja.
This event is presented in collaboration with the Boricuration Cultural Foundation, Cave Canem Foundation, NYPL/115th Street Branch, and TOPAZ Arts, Inc.
Closest subways: F to York Street, A/C to High Street.Ever since I first saw Jurassic Park, I wanted a Chlamydosaurus Kingii to call my own. Though mostly arboreal, these frilled lizards of the dragon clan would descend to the Northern Australian forest floors and savannas to feed on ants, termites and smaller lizards.
The frilled lizard is known for its thin fold of pleated skin surrounding the throat that it would unfurl when it feels threatened. The frilled lizard would rise on its hind legs, spread its frills over its shoulders until erect, and then open its mouth and hiss in order to intimidate its foes. If that tactic didn’t work, the lizard would run on its hind legs until it reached the nearest tree.
Below are three visual examples of the frill-necked lizard, serving three different purposes within popular culture.
Model Sheet - Cai Loon/Captain Crane
Using an animal as a superhero’s moniker or source of her power is a trope I’ve always been interested in. The crane, with its heavy presence in Asian mythology, has generally been used as a vessel of exoticism by Hollywood and popular culture (cough, Karate Kid, cough, Kung Fu Panda, cough cough). Therefore, I was interested in exploring the crane as a different type of hero. I started to write a children’s story about a little boy who could turn into a paper crane. His weaknesses are many (i.e., water, fire, bookworms) but he makes up for them with his swiftness and bravery, aspects which he’ll later realize he has always had.
I named the boy Cai Loon, after the Chinese patron saint of paper, and set the story in Holyoke, Massachusetts, America’s paper city.
Fowld: Crane Flat
Fowld: Self Flat
Fowld: Crane Folded
Fowld: Self Folded
Fowld: An Exercise in Unfolding the Animal Self.
Self-Portrait for the ITP course Animals, People, and Things in Between.
I chose to display a flattened out whooping crane on one side of a piece of paper and arranged photos of myself on the other. When folded correctly, the images should render an anatomically (somewhat) correct arrangement in three dimensions.
I learned how to fold a paper crane when I was very young, but I never saw a live crane until much later. To me, paper wings feel strangely more authentic than those of our living fowl feathered friends.
The crane is indeed a majestic creature, mastering the air, land and water with his wide wings, gaunt legs and graceful neck. As I attempted to place my own image over his unfolded template, I realized that I in fact had none of those qualities. So I had to make do.
The act of unfolding my image and reversing it into the crane feels comforting and empowering. But I enjoy the idea that whenever I wish, I could return to my former paper self with just a few quick swipes.
A PDF is available to download here.
Franz West’s largest sculpture to date, The Ego and the Id, is on display in New York City’s Central Park until March of 2010. The rainbow aluminum arrangement invites passersby to directly engage with it such as by taking a seat at its base.
To celebrate the acclaimed artist’s love of whimsy and interactivity, Dublin artist Joan Healy and NYC writer Antonius Wiriadjaja reenacted the sculpting process using their own bodies as part of the medium. The two plastered themselves onto a bench, painted their bodies pink and yellow, and remained still for an encouraging audience, in effect mimicking The Ego and the Id.
Special thanks to Bob Clark for video and stills.
August 16 at 1pm: Our Side
13 writers read new work including memoirs, narratives and personal essays that address issues of emigration, dislocation from homeland, assimilation to a new land, maintenance of cultural identity, and transnationalism.
Readers: Milena Abrahamyan, Gilmarie Brioso, Vianey Camela, Claro de los Reyes, Tenaz H. Dubash, Beatriz A. Gil, Erin Ming Lee, Soniya Munshi, K Sherbetdjian, Margarita Soto, Hannah Szteinbok, and Antonius Wiriadjaja. Led by Nancy Agabian
Video Artist Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba is simulating the flight of the displaced by running 12,756.3 km, the diameter of Earth.
Reading
The Sulu Series at the Bowery Poetry Club.
Queer Asian Pride
The Bowery Poetry Club, Sunday April 19, 2009
