Moment of Plane

2016

Exhibited at The Sight

-Arduino, Photoresistance, Laser,

Light bulbs,

Silver-plated wire

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{Design Concept}

Kang Yi

Hsin-Hao Chen

This project started from a simple idea about communication between people. Feeling distant among each of us due to differences can create exhaustion in different forms. Such as not being in the same time or not being at same space, generally speaking, not on the same wavelength. Began with this base, I started to think what is the purpose or consequences I want to get from being on the same wavelength.

{About MOP}

With the right wavelength it will create harmony. I took hundreds of photo trying to find a way to define harmony. I also experimented with sounds and videos to see if there was any similar feeling in these materials. Looking in the wrong way initially, I analyised pictures I took and marked them with some visible features: simple lines and easy frames. Then I realised those materials I got only share one thing in common which is they all looked so simple in my eyes at that certain time.

When we feel connected while talking to people, it seems like everything we hear and everything we see is harmonious. I think when people reached the same frequency ,they will feel strong connection in time and space. Then I realised harmony was not about a view or a sound. Harmony is a moment. When we feel the connection with that moment, we feel harmony.

{Before Making}

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This installation illustrates the process of the moment of harmonization. When all unpredictable factors such as time, space, and people synchronizes, that is the moment when everything seems to be so simple as if reaching harmony. My interpretation of that moment is everything will transform into multiple lines and become a flat image so it can be easily installed into our minds logically. When that moment transforms into a flat image, we reach harmony. There enters the light.

"That moment when everything exist on 2D plane, there enters the light." I use the passage above to create my installation. Wires with light bulbs are connected to motors on the installation to move back and forth at random intervals. This process represents a chance in time. Photoresistances and lasers on this installation are used for Arduino to program electricity. Arduino will provide electricity to all the light bulbs when all the wires cover the lasers and no light detection of the photoresistances. This is the moment when every light bulb in this installation forms a line. Audiences will stand in front of this installation waiting for the light, which emphasizes the concept of the moment.