Chen Eddie

Phantom Ride in the 21st Century Wormhole

Black & White | 00:53 | Experimental

Phantom Ride in the 21st Century Wormhole is a video installation study of space and existence in the digital age. The video models after the genre of phantom ride films that emerged shortly after film’s invention. Just as how the first phantom ride films allowed audiences of their time to experience the time-space through the new medium, Phantom Ride in the 21st Century Wormhole attempts to create a summary experience of the time-space in our digital age through digital video recording, virtual reality, and video conferencing technologies. The video installation investigates the various factors of presence in the digital time-space: network speed, network bandwidth, network latency, the diversification of control and display screens, etc.

1 year ago

Limbo

Color | 03:20 | Experimental | viewing with headset highly recommended

Limbo is a video chronicle of the journey that one goes through after a traumatic experience. It uses split screen to compare and contrast the two competing approaches to exiting limbo: to hastily escape from or to slowly suffer through. The ambiguous visual story is complemented by a soundscape narrative that offers hints for interpretation.

1 year ago

7

Color | 2:00 | Experimental

7 is a study of the subjective processing of traumatic memories. Memories, in the form of film clips, are sorted into blocks by genre and are placed into different corners of the screen. These genre blocks—because they bear distinct semantic importance to the subject—are assigned different amounts of playback space and varying degrees of opacity. A sequence of the number 7 is taped diagonally across the screen, representing the subject’s desire to seal away the memories. At the center of the screen, however, the tape disappears because of its relatively low opacity in the rectangular area where the genre blocks overlap, conveying the message that the most powerful memories, even traumatic ones, are those where all genres of feelings converge.

1 year ago

A New Metro

A New Metro is an ongoing series of informal online postings about how I envision the future of contextual computing and contextual user interface could be using Microsoft’s ‘Metro’ design language. So far, three entries have been posted on prominent tech news site theverge.com. The second entry, which focused on Notifications, was featured on theverge.com’s homepage on May 28, 2012. The first and third entries were about Search and Content, respectively. The series now totals some seven thousand words.

(Source: theverge.com)

1 year ago

6

Color | 8:42 | Experimental

6 is the video proof-of-concept of a system based on projected technological advancement by year 2058. The system records a day’s worth of subjective sensory information, analyzes it all, and presents in a less-than- ten-minute experience that the subject can not only enjoy but also learn from at the end of each day. The footages used in 6 were shot during a trip back to Taiwan in the summer of 2010.

1 year ago

Tree of Death

Black & White | 11:53 | Experimental

Tree of Death is a video study of the impact of the digital revolution on the production and consumption of media. The video adopts the basic construct of ancient Chinese literature and is separated into four parts: Introduction, Elucidation, Transition and Conclusion. The four parts share semantic links that are archival film footages that offer timed commentary throughout.Tree of Death aims to capture the process of mediation where artists have used various equipments and supplies to manipulate and record nature. It shows that with the digitization of these equipments and supplies, the established properties and practices of the mediation process could be re-imagined and re-made.

1 year ago

Art with User Interface Elements

Art with User Interface Elements is an ongoing series of work where I try to convey meaning with familiar UI elements and their semantic nature. It is my intention to animate these pieces into interactive works with HTML5.

1 year ago