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Proposal

Digital Media Art

Task: In this trimester, all the Digital Media’s student in Gamma 2 has to create one interactive application. We need to do this application based on the information that we get from all the possibilities places in Pulau Pinang and we have to choose one of the most that suitable places that we will apply to our application. We required going to Pulau Pinang to take an original photos and information from the people who lives in Penang.

Objective: The objective of this project is to make sure that the user of our interactive applications understands about the main historical places in Pulau Pinang so we have to do our application in more details and clear about all the information.

Target Audience: Teenager (18-25)

Location: Pulau Pinang,Malaysia

Theme: Development of the area and the architecture of the mosque

Specific Place: Masjid Melayu Lebuh Acheh, Georgetown, Pulau Pinang

Specific Research: The Acheen Street Mosque in Georgetown Penang also known as Masjid Melayu Lebuh Acheh was founded in 1808 by Tengku Syed Hussain Al-aidid, a member of the Achehnese Royal of northen Sumatra, Indonesia. Tengku Syed Hussain who moved to Penang with his clan in 1792 was considered by Captain Francis Light as one of the wealthiest men on the island. Besides being established traders, Tengku Syed Hussain and his people were actively involved in spreading Islam in the region, particularly in Penang Island. They had opened a religious school in Acheen Street which became the first Arabic school in the locality. The mosque and its surrounding properties also hosted various business activities including pilgrim brokers, ticketing agencies, bazaar traders,hotel,shop and printing presses.

The area was known as the 'second Jeddah' to the Muslim in the South-East Asia region as it served pilgrims bound for Mekkah, Saudi Arabia. The entire complex is historically and architecturally important as it reflects the earliest Muslim urban community in Penang comprising of the Malays, Indian Muslim, Arabs and the Achehnese. For many years, the area had been an attractive destination for Sumatran immigrants seeking better fortune in Penang. However with the advent of aeroplane and the establishment of the Lembaga Urusan Tabung Haji Malaysia in 1969, the business and pilgrimage activities in the mosque complex gradually died out.

In the 1960, the mosque and their surrounding properties have been endowed for religious and cultural purposed, and it is administered by the Penang State Religious Council. In May 1984, the Acheen Street Mosque was gazetted by the Malaysian Government, under the Antiquities Act of 1976, which then gives some protection and encourages its conversation and preservation. The Acheen Street Mosque as well as other significant monuments and landmarks around the area including Syed Al-Attas Mansion and Armenian Street, Khoo Kongsi Temple and Cannon Square identified as important cultural heritage sites in the sites in the city of Georgetown. In 1987, the whole area has been designed by the Penang Island Municipal Council as one of the five conservation areas in the inner city.

Specific Research Method: In this research, I will personally go to Pulau Pinang to take make a research more clearly and accurate about this mosque. I will take a picture of the mosque by myself to make it original pictures and not taken from the internet. While I’m doing this research, I will ask the people who lives in Penang about this mosque whether the history of it or the details of the mosque. I will try to find more information of this mosque by reading a history book or magazine to put in at my application.

Developing Research and Ideas: According to my personal timeline, on week 4 which mean last week I already go to Pulau Pinang to do my primary research. Based on my researched that I have made, I realized that Acheen Street Mosque have much more information that I needed than Masjid Kaiptan Keling and i decided to choose The Acheen Street Mosque as my subject matter. I will focus on the development of the Acheen street area including the Acheen Street Mosque and their culture heritage. All the information that I got was originally taken from the Culture Heritage information building itself and not from the internet.

Application Information:

*Title for the application: Acheen and The Street Warrior

*Software: Adobe Flash, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe audition and Unity

*Duration of application's intro: 1 minute

*Type of content: Informative,gallery and entertaining method