Dahlia Dominguez (curator)Featured artwork: Sideshow Curiosities
Sideshow Curiosities is an AR experience that visualizes statements and aspirations contrived by the Trump Administration. Utilizing augmented reality environments and AR word recognition, Sideshow Curiosities takes its users into various environments inspired by our current president and the realities we now face as Americans. |
Oliver EngelFeatured artwork: Red Share
The viewer logs into their Facebook account–on the official Facebook website–and finds that the content and structure of their newsfeed has become warped. Names of friends and family are swapped out or translated to Russian, external links lead to fake news stories and propaganda, and elements on the page are jumbled and visually intrusive. Some of the content is left intact, as they would normally see it. The comfort that they expect in the social media environment is absent, replaced with violent distortions of truth and form. |
Shijie ZhouFeatured artwork: Telesignalization
Telesignalization, an intimacy predicting machine with both partners, was used to measure the different stages of relationship based on how far they stand from the people next to them. Usually, most of us do not pay attention to the boundary between yourself and others. The inspiration on telesignalization machine is playing the different role of surveillance camera, which is the role of an advance fortune-telling machine. Each of us has a different physical reaction and observable emotion associated with individuals, as well as the human gender. The box of display can give such relationship data analysis about that person’s life. With the rise of quantization, this project can emphasize the awareness of body language or spacial awareness in the society. |
Wenhao GuFeatured artwork: Light Immerse
Light Immerse is an interaction media art project which aim to make people to immerse the light space and collaboration with each other. It wants any audience to control the visualization in the project and work with other persons to split the object. As purpose, Light Immerse encourages every participant to think how the digital space with infinite algorithm and object influence our emotion and our relationship with each other. |
Yaojun SongFeatured artwork: 间 (Interval)
In this project, I will create series immersive interactive environments based on Chinese ancient poetry in virtual reality. It will starts from darkness and then different sound, lights and objects gradually appears. In the end, it reveals a larger picture of a nighttime mountain scene that depicted in the poems. |
Ziyin liFeatured artwork: Memory Pieces
Memory Pieces comes with the idea to build up a visual narrative video about a memory that is following a timeline, a spatial movement. This project contains a lot of personal and collective memories, which includes views that the creator has seen, places she has been, and mixed feeling belonging to those views and place. At the same time, it builds a connection with the audience --as their body motions changes, the patterns of projected images also change in a way. This project explores an invisible communication that involves both the creator and the audience. |