Originating as an exploration about people’s constantly changing self-image and people’s behaviour of checking how they look in the mirrors, Reflection uses digital technology as a method to demonstrate how people’s understandings about themselves are different from what they think they are presenting.
Reflection is an interactive installation that engages people with an effect-based projection of themselves, which brings the audience into the installation as the subject matter, and the interactive experience allows people to examine the way people tend to look at themselves.
Reflection is an experiment to explore the liminal space disconnected between people’s psychological predisposition to perceive the self as a constant matter and the fact that people are always changing. Viewers will begin to question the idea of themselves through the interactive experience, and perhaps accept the ever-changing condition of existence.
[Reflection] is an interactive installation as the thesis project for my Master of Fine Art at Parsons the New School for Design.
Here is the website for project: http://thesis1yehan.wordpress.com/
The website records everything about the development of this thesis project.
This is a video gathering a bunch of user-testing videos of the prototype of my thesis project for MFADT.
Paintings
I decided to transfer those digital prints into paintings because I feel like there's something digital that can be transferred into something that's totally handmade. plus, I miss my old job, painting. Being a painter seems like something that's totally different with working with codes, but there are similar procedures - instead of making prototypes, I use paints to test out what I want the painting to look like, and each step I do and each paint strokes I put down determines what we call 'prototype' in the digital world. I believe that every single step of making a painting is the same as a prototype.
I believe the fact that an ever-changing portrait made entirely out of code and the idea of a traditional portrait painting has a similar process of making, and I want to see how I can transfer something digital back to the traditional format.
I transferred one of the digital print into an acrylic painting, as a gift for a good friend of mine who I met at Parsons. As international students studying abroad, we all face the fact that people are leaving after they graduate/ finish school, and I want this to be a going-away gift for him to carry home.
Some postcard designs
