Hey & Bye
An installation art piece discussing the interpersonal relationship.
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Deriving from user-centric thinking, I treated the audience of my art pieces as users. In my thesis project, “Hey & Bye,” the work would be presented to students from diverse fields such as engineering, architecture, commerce, etc. Therefore, I applied ways of communication that were in accordance with the audience’s background. I built a mathematical theory, a PowerPoint presentation and integrated them in multimedia light-and-shadow installations to create a contemplative space. In this way, the audience can feel familiar and have fun interacting, then provoke the empathy. I believed it was essential not only to guide the users' mentalities to complete the task successfully, but also to give them the delightful feeling of freedom and self-satisfaction when they explore the message on their own.
This installation relies on complete minimalistic aesthetics, while carrying the emotional signals by the verbal communication.
This piece is a complete abstraction from the reality, and is sufficient for an order in itself. Using the elements from mathematics, the business world, and minimalistic objects, I integrate them with the new application into this uniform art piece, “Hey & Bye.”
The thesis “Hey & Bye” is based on four fundamental rules:
1) We have limited control over our connection with others: starting in “hey”, ending in “bye”, all other stages scatter randomly, but all eventually end in the “bye”.
2) When we abstract the interpersonal relationship, the emotional/mental assets are not real since they are intangible and cannot be measured.
3) From rule number 1 and 2, we own nothing in the long term.
4) All installations are meant for proposing questions and a self-reflection moment of the viewers’ own.
