A series of research based, data driven experiments in crafting and exploring narratives around the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill movement in Hong Kong.

https://www.winnieyoe.com/resilience

Description

A series of data-driven experiments investigating non-traditional ways of resistance and resilience, created during the on-going Anti-Extradition Amendment Bill protests in Hong Kong. In each experiment, I work with different forms of protest artifacts to explore the relationship between distance and narrative ­— be it my physical distance being 8,000 miles away from events I deeply care about, distance between pro-establishment and pro-democratic narratives, or the distance in media rhetoric and interpretations.

These experiments, along with my article Reshaping Hong Kong’s Identity through a Decentralized Protest (published in ADJACENT Issue 6), are part of a larger research project where I am trying to answer how does one take manageable steps and more nourishing approaches as a form of resilience.

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Data Art

Around Us is an interactive website, zine and set of cards visualizing the satellites around us that are currently in use.

http://jiwonshin.com/around-us/

Description

In spirit Lisa Park’s Stuff You Can Kick: Toward a Theory of Media Infrastructures, we are investigating the infrastructure of satellites launched in the year 2018 – 19. Satellites have become one of the most essential infrastructures that make distribution of media possible and like most media infrastructures, the extent of the structure is hard to be visually represented in one glance and no human can physically see the whole infrastructure. To add to this difficulty of visualizing infrastructures, satellites, once launched to the Earth’s orbit, are no longer visible to the human eye. Around Us raises awareness of these satellites that comprise an important infrastructure to digital media communications.

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Data Art

We use augmented reality to showcase the lack of afforable housing in the Lower East Side

https://www.caraneel.com/itp/2019/11/11/data-art-data-amp-publics

Description

New York is becoming progressively more unaffordable, with more than half of New Yorkers considered rent-burdened (spending 30% or more on rent alone) and rental prices rising while median household income remains stagnant. Neighborhoods considered “affordable” are often those in affluent areas, where the rents are still high, but the median income is comparatively higher, and so people in those neighborhoods can easily make rent payments. A bit of renter’s trivia we found especially interesting is the 40 times rule, which states you must make forty times the monthly rent per year in order to qualify to rent an apartment. The only way to subvert that rule is to have vast, provable savings, or a guarantor who makes 80 times your monthly rent. The 40x rule leads to a stark comparison between neighborhood rents and the median household incomes of the neighborhood’s inhabitants.Maya and I were interested in intervening in a public space, but wanted to make sure that our intervention was legal, unobtrusive to the people who lived in the neighborhood, and not easily destroyed. Taking these issues into consideration, we decided that the medium we wanted to work with was augmented reality.

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Data Art