Anan Du

Broadway Boogie Woogie in Motion

Broadway Boogie Woogie in Motion

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Broadway Boogie Woogie in Motion

Project Info:

Year

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2024

Year

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2024

Year

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2024

My Role

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Interaction Designer

My Role

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Interaction Designer

My Role

:

Interaction Designer

How to Interact

  1. Click the play/pause button at the bottom of the screen to play music. The cars will move with the music, and the lights will change color according to the music.

  2. Press the lights with the mouse, and the lights will produce a drum beat sound effect.

Concept & Inspiration

This project is part of the “Animating Famous Paintings” series. I chose Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie, a painting that captures the pulse of New York with small blocks scattered along yellow lines, like jazz translated into geometry. The busy, rhythmic composition feels alive, as if cars and lights are rushing through the streets. Building on this idea, I turned the painting into an interactive audio-visual piece: blocks became cars moving to jazz, lights shifted from yellow to red like autumn leaves, and clicking them added drum beats to the music. The result is a lively, dynamic scene that lets users step into Mondrian’s vision of the city.