My first Unreal Engine short film “Chungking Woman”. I was born and raised in Chungking, a city famous for its cyber-punk style architecture and hotpot. And actually, I don’t like to watch a superhero films, so I created my own super woman. Her name is, Chungking Woman.
Coco Ma is a current master's student at NYU ITP. She is a transmedia artist, experimental storyteller, and live performer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work uses emerging technologies and multimedia to tell stories about absurdity, female power, and culture. With a film, theatre, music performance, and improv comedy background, she focused on storytelling, immersive experience, and human interaction.
Dreamcore is based on the concept "dreamcore", which is a surrealist aesthetic that uses motifs commonly associated with dreams, daydreams, or nightmares, portrayed through media. Using words, directional fiction, bit game, and a 3D environment to create a world that is uncanny, absurd, but personal. The audience needs to find a way out and be immersed in this story to escape from this nightmare.
Marrionette
Interactive game / Unreal Engine / Leap Motion
Marionette is an interactive Unreal Engine project that allows people to interact with the virtual cyborg puppets with their hands in a touch-free way. The scene and virtual interactive part were created in Unreal Engine, and a Leap Motion controller was used to recognize hand postures and movements. I wanna explore whether people can maintain their original purity without being manipulated by rapid technology development in the meta world.
Life Is All About Misdirection is a musical comedy that is written, sung, and designed by me. As a comedian, I use "one-liner" and "Misdirection" comedy skills to write a musical comedy with my own avatar by 3d scanning.
KongMing Lantern
Interactive installation
Kongming Lantern is an interactive installation about the traditional Chinese culture. It allows experiencer to make wish and get physically interactive with the wish box and the screen.
A new song "I live in Brooklyn" generated by artificial intelligence. I let the machine learn the melody of “Bad guy” for 12 seconds, and selected Rihanna and Genre Soul as the learning objects for the rest, and automatically generated the lyrics through AI software. The generated effects and melody really make me feel amazing! ! Because the sample is relatively low quality, I re-produced the accompaniment, sang and reproduced the melody concept given by AI by myself.
<The shape of wind> windmill music instrument - Using accelerometer to control the midi and using wind sensor to adjust the echo effect of the track. I want to put this in the nature environment in the future, and let wind blowing instead of blowing with my mouth.
A documentary about the undocumented immigrant community in Connecticut and the activists who are helping them adjust to life and navigate the legal system to find a path to citizenship. We hope our documentary will promote a better understanding of the challenges facing undocumented immigrants and awaken a deeper sense of empathy among the broader public.
