by Karen Abe 2022 USC Media Arts + Practice Senior Thesis
“A Home: Not Paradise” is an experience-based installation that simulates a flight to Hawaiʻi. Through the flight, the audience has opportunity to understand issues of colonialism, militarism & environmentalism through the lens of tourism. The experience is built to subvert the propagated image of “paradise” and understand the day-to-day issues that impact the local and Kānak Maolī (Native Hawaiian) community.
This webpage was created to provide the auidnece to naviagte project details and house the "in-flight epxiernece" portion of the installation. When exploring the "virtual experience" portion of the website, the audince is able to further understand the history of tourism through interacrtive elements, which is an omen to reimagining the design of flight experiences. Additionally this virtual expeience page allowed me to be experimental and explore fun ways to emulate such a physcial experience.
Enter.html - (.css included in html) - stars.js (for background) - enter-toggle.js
star.jsstar.js was created with reference to "Stars with 2D vectors by Esme Hotston Moore (Accessed 01/21/23 via https://openprocessing.org/sketch/1139794)"
index.html (virtual experience) - style.css - sketch.js - plane-button.ks
index.html references main-content.html via iframe - sketch.js
karenabe.com/revisiting-paradise was also hyperlinked via enter.html
Images and Videos
Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2bjjwv4134&t=1s
Academic References
Mak, James. “Creating "Paradise of the Pacific": How Tourism Began in Hawaii.” (2015). https://uhero.hawaii.edu/RePEc/hae/wpaper/WP_2015-1.pdf
Manalo-Camp, Adam Keawe [@adamkeawe]. “Overview of Overtourism & Extractive Tourism.”* Instagram, 28 October 2022, https://www.instagram.com/p/CkPB4joBYEI/
Trask, H. (1999). Lovely Hula Hands: Corporate Tourism and the Prostitution of Hawaiian Culture. From a native daughter : colonialism and sovereignty in Hawaiʻi. Honolulu :University of Hawaiʻi Press. https://canvas.auckland.ac.nz/courses/39841/files/ 2633701?module_item_id=520832