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Chengyu Zhang | InterLīmen: A Physical/Virtual Liminal Space in the Datafication Dystopia - InterLīmen is a liminal space interconnecting the virtual and physical dimension for people to relax in the dystopian reality of data flood and digital tracking. By providing a liminal sanctuary with juxtaposed elements, InterLīmen further seeks to empower people to confront the challenges of our data-driven world. Datafication dystopia refers to a world in … Continue reading Chengyu Zhang | InterLīmen: A Physical/Virtual Liminal Space in the Datafication Dystopia
Yutong Liu | Station Earth: A Journey Between Life And Death - Death is after-life, life is after-death. Join me on a journey between life and death. Station Earth is a VR experience designed to challenge the static perception of life and death. In this narrative, life and death is not viewed on two opposing end, but rather dynamic, intertwined stages of one constant flow. Under … Continue reading Yutong Liu | Station Earth: A Journey Between Life And Death
Shengli Wen | PlaNet in Crisis: A Web-Based Meditation on Climate Grief - PlaNet in Crisis is a series of web pages exploring the fragmented, confusing, and ambient nature of climate change-related grief. PlaNet in Crisis is a series of web pages that traverse emotional responses to climate change. In a series of “rooms” that the viewer can visit, the project presents various forms of interactive text … Continue reading Shengli Wen | PlaNet in Crisis: A Web-Based Meditation on Climate Grief
Muru Chen | A Lonely Bird: Trigger Emotion to NPC by Game Mechanic - A Lonely Bird is a 3D experimental game that explores how game mechanics trigger players’ emotional attachments to NPCs. A lonely bird is a 3D experimental game. It explores how game mechanics can trigger players’ emotional attachments to Non-player characters (NPC), combining with the game narrative. In the game, the player acts as a … Continue reading Muru Chen | A Lonely Bird: Trigger Emotion to NPC by Game Mechanic
Shirley Liu | 天天有余 (tiān tiān yǒu yú): WeChat Mini Program For Reducing Food Waste One Day At A Time - The 天天有余 (tiān tiān yǒuyú) WeChat Mini-Program helps organizations take action against food waste by providing a mobile platform for people to save delicious surplus food through a give and take system. I investigate how interactive media can raise awareness on the issue of food waste and also bring about long term change to … Continue reading Shirley Liu | 天天有余 (tiān tiān yǒu yú): WeChat Mini Program For Reducing Food Waste One Day At A Time
Xiaoyan Kong | Partings and Togetherness: Partings & Togetherness, Memory & Loss - This is an art installation designed to share how migrant families have been impacted due to changes in society, public policies, and the education system. It tells the stories of Partings and Togetherness, Memory and Loss in the phenomenon of first-born children left behind in the countryside and second-borns growing up in China’s cities. … Continue reading Xiaoyan Kong | Partings and Togetherness: Partings & Togetherness, Memory & Loss
Yanran Bi | At the Door: A Shanghai Lilong Soundwalk - “At the Door: A Shanghai Lilong Soundwalk” invites the audience to take a thirty minute walk through a nearly abandoned lilong in the historical city core of Shanghai. The soundwalk offers an immersive sonic experience of life in a lilong. The tour explores the dichotomy between private and public space and the memories they contain. … Continue reading Yanran Bi | At the Door: A Shanghai Lilong Soundwalk
Haoquan Wang | Self, Digi: VR Interactive Fashion Show for NanoLove: A Capsule Collection - “Self, Digi” is an experimental VR fashion show for exploring the possibilities of using VR as an interactive medium to support fashion designers presenting their clothes economically, environmentally, and in a functionally friendly way. “Self, Digi” is an interactive fashion show in virtual reality for the “NanoLove” capsule collection. Through the construction of a … Continue reading Haoquan Wang | Self, Digi: VR Interactive Fashion Show for NanoLove: A Capsule Collection
Stanley Virgint | infinitecanvas : Collaborative AI image generation canvas - Infinitecanvas is an experimental platform that empowers users to collaboratively create and expand images using textual descriptions, leveraging AI technology and community-oriented design to pioneer a new approach to online art and collaboration. Infinitecanvas is an experimental platform that allows users to collaboratively create and expand an image using textual descriptions. Inspired by my research … Continue reading Stanley Virgint | infinitecanvas : Collaborative AI image generation canvas
Winny Wang | Mirroring Loss : One Year of Covid Death in One Minute - Mirroring Loss creates a one-person experience to contextualize our loss during the Covid-19 pandemic by referring the loss of lives to the vanishment of self-reflection in the mirror. It is created in the background of a year that caught us unprepared. This project encourages people to pause their anxiety and reminds them that the year … Continue reading Winny Wang | Mirroring Loss : One Year of Covid Death in One Minute
Skye Gao | Sentient Complex: Cybernetic Ecology for Spacial Formation - Sentient Complex is a project that consists of an ecology of responsive agents that attempt to collectively identify and perceive the emerging behavior of the visitors. Considered as an extension of the function of architecture, this complex of agents suggests new hybrids that span across different dimensions and forms. Sentient Complex is a project that … Continue reading Skye Gao | Sentient Complex: Cybernetic Ecology for Spacial Formation
Isabella Pezzulli | Eden: A Pixel RPG Dreamscape Adventure - Travel with Eden to hone his daydreaming abilities as he battles monsters, completes quests, and unravels the secrets of a mysterious alternate universe. Can you help Eden find the confidence to shape his own future in real life? ‘Eden’ is a pixel RPG game about maladaptive daydreaming — check out the link below to … Continue reading Isabella Pezzulli | Eden: A Pixel RPG Dreamscape Adventure
Freya Zhuang | Avatar Skin: Towards New Bodily Experience - The project seeks to blur the boundaries between our physical and digital selves by linking the avatars’ skin to our tangible, living skin. Through the integration of electronic components and the unfolding of UV maps from digital avatar models, the project facilitates communication between our virtual and real identities. As individuals, we inhabit separate physical … Continue reading Freya Zhuang | Avatar Skin: Towards New Bodily Experience
Jennifer Cheung | Love Languages: Animating misunderstood emotions in Chinese American families - “Love Languages” is a web-based interactive animation that contrasts actions with misunderstood expressions of love between me and my Chinese immigrant mother. By using mouse interactions to switch between hearing my mother’s and my own voice overs while watching the animation, users can uncover contrasting Chinese and American emotional perspectives on the same experiences. … Continue reading Jennifer Cheung | Love Languages: Animating misunderstood emotions in Chinese American families
Jessica Chon | A Reflection on Lookism: A face clinic installation - A Reflection on Lookism is an interactive face reading/plastic surgery consultation inspired by gwansang and plastic surgery in South Korea. In this project, users can visit a simulated plastic surgery clinic website to receive a virtual consultation on how they can improve their fortune. After users select an option of what aspect of fortune they … Continue reading Jessica Chon | A Reflection on Lookism: A face clinic installation
Jingtian Zong | Mirror1-3: Virtual and Real, Visible and Invisible - Mirror 1-3 is a set of collage installations. The three “mirrors” invite the audience to explore their identities between virtuality and reality, between the visible and the invisible, by presenting the reflection of the viewer’s self in different forms of media. Mirror 1-3 is a set of collage installations. The three “mirrors” invite the … Continue reading Jingtian Zong | Mirror1-3: Virtual and Real, Visible and Invisible
Ziqi Yan | The Breath of Life: New Food Chain: Symbiosis of Humans, Mycelium, and Digital Organisms - The Breath of Life explores the intersection of food technology, human biology, and digital organisms in the technosphere. The installation speculates on a new food chain that brings together humans, mycelium, and digital organisms, creating a unique ecosystem that nourishes all participants. The Breath of Life is an interactive installation that explores the intersection of … Continue reading Ziqi Yan | The Breath of Life: New Food Chain: Symbiosis of Humans, Mycelium, and Digital Organisms
Susan Shi 史卓灵 | Out of Inner Chamber: A pop-up book about Young Chinese Women - Out of Inner Chamber is a pop-up book that combats China’s societal norms on women’s choices. The book allows audience to make choices for the protagonist and walk through a non-linear story experience by interacting with paper mechanisms. Gender issue in Chinese society has been pervasive throughout history. Nowadays, gender stereotypes can be seen … Continue reading Susan Shi 史卓灵 | Out of Inner Chamber: A pop-up book about Young Chinese Women
Leah Bian | Animagine: Speculating on the Future Ethics of Animal Cyborgs - Experience a speculative future in 2036 where mind-controlled animal cyborgs are the next generation of companions and service providers. Explore the ethical implications of this emerging form of coexistence between humans and animals. In a world where science fiction becomes reality, the concept of “animal cyborgs” is no longer confined to the realm of … Continue reading Leah Bian | Animagine: Speculating on the Future Ethics of Animal Cyborgs
Jiani Yu | beto beto べとべと: An Interactive Kinetic Yokai Sound Installation - beto beto べとべと is an interactive sound installation aiming at recreating the auditory experience people have when encountering and interacting with the formless Japanese Yōkai, Betobetosan, who are recognizable only by their telltale sound – the “beto beto” clacking of wooden clogs – and like to prank lone walkers by following behind them. In … Continue reading Jiani Yu | beto beto べとべと: An Interactive Kinetic Yokai Sound Installation