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HIDE#Interactive Art installation

On The Road Exhibition 2015

#Interactive Art Installation

Artist Statement

Selena LEONI, Myokyung SHON, and  Miyu OZAWA

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This shared space is a fantasy world. 

Desk, clock, chairs with lamps seems to be the typical study area inside the Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre. No one would think this open place as an artwork. People can drink coffee, study and chat in this seemingly normal setting. And meanwhile, be welcomed unconsciously to this fantasy world!


Slowly and gradually, some questions will rise in their mind: Why is this light lamp so small? What are these holes? Why are these lamps placed so low and kept hitting my head? Can I put my head inside? Wait, how come everything here is square-shaped? 

Yes, this is our purposely designed open space. 


By installing hidden fantasy elements, audiences are playfully deceived and thus guided to a paradoxical experience between two spaces. Their body remains in reality, while their minds are detached from it.

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DESIGN CONCEPT

Our installation wants to explore the concept of ‘what you see is not always what it

seems’ using the mirror reflection tricks. We wanted to provide a nostalgic fairytale like experience for the audience. We were inspired by the shadow detached from the body that has its own personality from Peter Pan story. We were also interested in the Neverland where Peter Pan and other children will never grow up.

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Our boxes(lamps) represent a fantasy world for the audiences to temporary detach their minds from the real world while their bodies are still in the real world.

 

To create this feeling of detachment, we decided to use One-way mirror paper for our boxes. With these special papers, although the audiences outside(on the darker side) the boxes can see the person in the box, the person inside(on the bright side) the boxes will not be able to see the outside world.

 

Here is the first mini-box we made with disposable chopsticks to test out our concept

 Sketches of the lamps 

After knowing the mini box works as we expected, we quickly began with the actual design and set-up process...

 3D modeling floorplan 

  1. Order 6 transparent plastic boxes with specific dimension & size from a local constructor

  2. Cover the transparent plastic boxes with one-way mirror paper

  3. Stick the white LED lights inside the boxes

  4. Hang the boxes on the ceiling with cables

  5. Connect the power

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