Kuan-Ting Chen
If You Stand Far Away Enough, You Can Still See the Dinosaurs.
The universe that surrounds us is vast, and we are so very small. When we reflect on the vastness of the universe, our humdrum cosmic location, and the inevitable future demise of humanity, our lives can seem utterly insignificant.[1]
As humans, our being is considered ephemeral. Whether it is you, me, or our loved ones, within a short span of 70 to 100 years we will come to die, be cremated or buried, and eventually dissolve into the dust of nature. Compared to the cosmos, the life of human beings is merely a flicker.Despite the inevitable fading of the physical body, does our existence dissipate at the time of death? In the present, we observe the light emitted by stars light-years away through space telescopes, light that has travelled through the universe for tens of thousands of years before coalescing into an image. If you stand on a star 66 million light-years away and look back at Earth, you can still see the dinosaurs. Our existence is frozen in photons, radiating towards the infinity of the cosmos.(see fig.01)
This work encompassing 3 installations explores how our existence relates with time and space: In an empty space, 3 webcams are connected to separate monitors. The 1st camera points to an open space, recording the behaviour of the audience. Its feed is broadcasted to a monitor to which, the 2nd camera is pointed. Recursively, the 3rd camera records the footage that the 2nd broadcasts to a monitor, and projects it to another screen. The three monitors have been modified individually; one transparent, one semi-transparent, and one a regular screen. Each displaying the delayed stream from the webcam it’s connected to, through which the audience gazes into different timelines of themselves that have been captured by the webcam. These three views, represent intermediate fragments of a sight of Earth from a distant star. The images of the audience’s near past frozen in the photons, like those projected from the star, an irrefutable proof of their existence.
[1] Guy Kahane. Our Cosmic Insignificance. Nous. 2014 Dec 1;48(4):745-772. doi: 10.1111/nous.12030. PMID: 25729095; PMCID: PMC4340547.
Practical Assignment
RushPrint 03_Chop-Chop Workshop
Throughout the 6-year journey of the 530 Type Club, plenty of workshops have been organized by members and participants in diverse forms and materials. As the documentation of the outcomes has gradually accumulated into a big archive, developing a unique form to hold it as a publication becomes our interest. Carrying the core of the 530 workshop–dusty and user interaction, how can the documentation of 530 workshops be able to represent another layer (or function as) a workshop?
Thesis description
Where Should I Sit? — What Does Decolonizing Design Mean in Taiwan?
Can the term decolonizing design, which was defined within a Euro-American context apply to Taiwan or countries that have complex colonial influences from the past and present? Furthermore, am I, a student whose design practice is heavily influenced by Dutch graphic design education, able to define myself as a Taiwanese designer?
Internship
Hans Gremmen | ENTER ENTER | Fw:Books
Jing He
Internship Report
Other projects
Happens in Between
Met stoelen
Allegory of the Cave
12f Originality
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