An interactive installation that shares the stories of the immigrants behind NYC street food carts.
The piece composed of interactive three 3D printed replicas of food carts and the individuals behind them. Video and audio tell the stories of the people, in their own words. As the narrative unfolds, minimalistic visuals that relate to the story are mapped on top of the carts.
Thesis
I am presenting a Vending Machine in which women can select through different body types and get their output.
For this project, I wanted to make a clear statement of what it is like to be a woman, and wanting to look a certain way, but also wanting to eat whatever you want. Instagram is a platform in which women are bombarded with non-stop photos of models and clothes, but also with food that is popular. Women scroll through instagram feeling like they want to look like the models online but also wanting to eat the food online. Therefore, my vending machine represents that emotion for women everywhere. The vending machine has 3 screens in it – one screen has a selection of breasts, the second screen has a selection of torsos, and the third screen has a selection of butts. Women can choose what body type they want, and then get an output. The output is a printed receipt of a comment and captions, which is taken from the pictures that are on the screens. It is a mix between what fitness models, blogger models, and those who have eating disorders say. The vending machine is trying to convey the message that women are constantly putting themselves on the internet in many forms, and is trying to show how women cope with body image.
Readymades
Immersive room escaping experience in physical space using AR/VR as clues
http://www.jingruyin.net/2017/05/02/escape-the-no-4/
Our AR/VR room escaping experience will be setup in a corner of a classroom with a basic desk and few lockers. The background story bases on a creepy mental hospital which has ulterior secret that no one knows. The experience will be solo- one audience at a time. The audience will play a role of someone being framed as a psychopath and brought here, they need to find clues with AR(we’ll provide google cardboard) in the physical space to escape in a short time(approximately 5 mins). The clues are gonna be target pictures hided in ordinary objects for our APP to trigger images/animations/videos. The experience will also include few performance to bring audience into context.
Readymades
A necessary training of future life to keep the orbit from you
http://www.carlieyz.com/2017/04/13/pxp-final-proposal/
Orbit Training is an interactive project creating fake shadow of the audience according to their positions in the space.
In outer space, to stay in the orbit from another star, the aster has to speed up when it gets closer to it and slow down when it’s flying farther. But actually, everything with mass has “gravity”, we also have orbit from different people. So I captured people’s shadow and make them moving all the time and the speed is based on the distance. I call it The Orbit Training, envisioning it a necessary training of future life, but actually telling the story of people’s relationships.
Readymades, The World, Pixel By Pixel
