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SOUTHERN
FLOWERS


2024

Data visualization Sculpture

My role: All data visualisation works, including data analysis, extraction, filtering, merging and transformation, etc.
 


"Southern writers" refers to a group of writers who have come from the Chinese mainland to Hong Kong since 1949. Due to their different historical and cultural contexts, local memories, and personal experiences, their imagination and narrative have taken on a unique and different face, profoundly influencing and shaping Hong Kong literature.
"Flowers of the South" selects the most representative works of 26 "writers of the South" to visualize the data sculpture, visualizes the data sculpture as a "flowers" metaphor for the success of these writers in the land of Hong Kong, that is, flowering and fruit. The project constructs this set of data sculptures by mining the space-time context (including historical and spatiotemporal data sets) in thousands of characters and then combines the data set with the spatiotemporal coordinates of the author's personal life experiences.


「南來作家」是指自20世紀三四十年代起,自內地「南來」香港的作家群體,由於這些作家所處的不同歷史文化語境、鄉土記憶及個人經歷,其想像與敘事呈現出獨特而精彩的面貌,深刻影響並參與塑造了香港文學。


本作品系中國美術學院、清华美术学院的藝術家与其团队與香港文學舘聯合進行的跨學科創作項目,我們選擇了最具代表性的24位「南來作家」,對他們的作品文本進行多維度、多模型語義分析,挖掘萬千文字中的時空脈絡,建立包含歷時性與共時性的數據網路。基於這些語義數據與作家個人生平經歷中的時空座標,我們構建了一組3D數據雕塑,在先進計算機圖形學的映射下,這組雕塑形似一朵朵「花」。香港「南來作家」往往經歷了身份的斷裂和重組,這或許形塑了他們作品中獨特的敘事時空、故事建構與身份母題。不同作者的「花」因而呈現出綺麗的差異性。這些由數據構成的「南來之花」具有迷人的外觀,同時創造觀看這些文學之花的新的視角。

「南來之花」不僅創造了獨特視覺景觀,其中語料統計和梳理的過程更與文本素材息息相關,而信息可視化的最終呈現,是文學研究與視覺藝術在媒體間性中的動態平衡——這是我們此次跨界嘗試最重要的意義所在:作為一種模型和方法,耦合數字藝術與文學內涵之間的跨界共通之處,探索信息技術与文學研究的融合生態。


Geospatial data Southern writers Text visualisation Self-recognition Identity construction
地理空间数据|南来作家|文本可视化 |自我认知 身份建构

— National Exhibitions of Fine Arts
— Aranya Theater Festiva








LONGITUDE AND

LATITUDE


An Immersive space
SUZHOU Museum
My role: Project leader, chief visual designer, video production, exhibition 



LONGITUDE AND LATITUDE hopes to explore the clues in ancient Suzhou's thousands of years of history by visualization data, including rivers, oceans, and land, inviting as the opening exhibition of the West Museum of Suzhou Museum

It follows the deduction of time to abstract the macroscopic scene of future Suzhou development between the screens. It created a movement of geographic information with artistic techniques and SUZHOU's geographic data. The project is based on remote sensing geographic information and HOUDINI's point cloud, It uses an improved cellular automata algorithm to simulate the future evolution of Suzhou land function.

GIS DATA, HISTORY OF SUZHOU, FUTURE

— Cumulus Budapest 2024: P/References of Design, Budapest, Hungary

— The 6th Art and Science International Exhibition & Symposium, Beijing, China

— Aranya Theater Festival, Beijing, China

— Alibaba Group, APSARA Conference 

— National Funding, 2020 Graduate Scientific Research Project of the Chinese Association for Science and Technology (CAST): Research on the Design of Science Visualization-based Thematic Scientific Space Display.Theater Festiva 






The Suzhou Museum


The opening of the Suzhou Museum's West Wing was marked by the opening of Infinity: The Sequence from Known to Unknown, a contemporary art exhibition curated by Mr Wu Hongliang. The Sequence from Known to Unknown" is the contemporary art section of the new museum.

Under the title of "Ito", the exhibition is based on one of the key symbols of Suzhou, the silk, and a more microscopic perspective than silk, and brings together four renowned contemporary artists from China, Xu Bing, Shi Hui, Cao Fei and Wang Zhigang.

"Mi" as the title. "mi"(糸) is half of "si"(絲, silk) in the font, which refers to thin silk, and means "tiny". In modern life, there are few chances for this character to appear alone, but it is the component of many commonly used Chinese characters. The Chinese characters with "mi" as radical are mostly related to silk, hemp and rope, such as "zhi" (织, knitting), "zu" (组, forming), "ji" (纪, discipline), and "gang" (纲, link). This form of character creation is the epitome of many complex things. It is precisely many such tiny forces that gradually produce the complex and diverse history of civilization, by means of the repetition and superposition of organization modes and time. The conception of the exhibition starts from microscopic view. Through the translation of art and technology, some unique inter-textual relations are established, and a communication system that can be perceived and extended is presented.

The oracle bone script font of "mi" is " ", which looks like a twisted silk flock. When considering the English title corresponding to "Mi", we did not adopt literal translation, but echoed the infinite possibilities created by the repetition and superposition of "mi", that is, "infinity". More interestingly, "∞", the symbol in mathematics which represents "infinite" , is like the oracle bone script font of "mi" rotated 90 degrees. The subtitle "The Sequence from Known to Unknown" is an interweaving process of various elements, and the past entangle with the present-based future.





The Exhibition at Suzhou Museum


















The Alibaba Group, APSARA Conference






The process




     


    Historical documents about the Suzhou area


    CALL ME BY MY NAME


    2021

    Immersive Exhibition | Immersive Interaction Design



    My role: concept designer, questionnaire survey, creative technologist, cinematographer, interactive animation design, equipment testing and construction










    This is an immersive learning experience based on vision and touch, which seeks to establish a way to improve language learning for hearing imparied children. In this design, every hearing-impaired child can explore the elves in the "tree hole" to call, greet and make friends, which is also the learning process of language pronunciation.

    Multi-sensory Learning| hearing impaired children| Interactive design | Language pronunciation learning 多感官学习|听障儿童| 互动设计 | 语言发音学习
    Multi-sensory Learning| hearing impaired children| Interactive design | Language pronunciation learning 多感官学习|听障儿童| 互动设计 | 语言发音学习


    — funding from the Global Innovation Centre for Children (TUGICC), co-founded by  UNICEF and  Tsinghua University 
    _ funding from the Cyrus Tang 
    — The IRCAM Forum, Paris, French
    —  OPPO Renovators 2021 Emerging Artists Project, Paris, Beijing














































      WATER

      2022
      An interaction space
      My role: the research, testing and set-up together, the animations and interactions in TD, the AR poster design and the animations


      The project is about Suzhou, a city in eastern China. I used 'water' as an entry point to study Suzhou's geography, history, culture and development. It is an improvement and test based on the project LONGITUDE AND LATITUDE. Through GIS data visualization, spatial projection and motion capture technology, We will create an immersive and interactive space to tell the story of this city’s four periods in the past and future.


      Interaction, A spirit of the city, Historical and Cultural Heritage, Water




      1. Water and Land
      [The origin of lakes and rivers, the formation of the Yangtze River]

      2. Water and Agriculture
      [The development of agriculture of the Yangtze River area through Canal, the emergence of Rice]

      3. Water and commerce
      [Development of commerce through water transport, ancient SUZHOU's commerce reaches its peak]

      4. The future
      [Exploring the SUZHOU of the Future through the GIS data, including the river, architecture, road, land use etc. ]





        FAN
        2016
        A stage design
        My role:
        The stage designer, pattern and animation of the fan.


        This program is based on an ancient tragic love story in China - namely "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai". It's a stage by water and device. I try to use this fan device to create an atmosphere on the scene. The climax of the story is reached to show this sad and beautiful love story with the interaction of dancers and fans.

        Performance, installation, traditional Chinese mythology














        WHY FAN?



        I decided to use the implied meaning of fan - "open" and "close" to
        symbolize the reunion and departure of the couple. The reflection of the of the water surface of the West Lake is used to connect the open fan and the reflection to form a complete circle, symbolizing their perfect love. When the fan is "closed", the symbol is forced to separate.


        SAD LOVE STORY



        In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Zhu Yingtai was a lady of great family. She dressed as a man and studied in the college. And she fell in deep love with Liang Shanbo in the process of learning, who lived in the same room.
        Zhu Yingtai was forced to marry someone else because of the destruction of the young master of the evil forces. Liang Shanbo fought for nothing and died of depression. Zhu passed the tomb of Liang on the day of her marriage. The tomb collapsed and split during the worship. Zhu Yingtai jumped into the tomb, then a pair of colorful butterflies appeared in the tomb, and both of them flew awa