larawarman

surface

June, 2011

A collaboration between Caitlin Morris, Lee Williams, Yu Tong, and myself. Shown during ALT Beijing in June, 2011, and Beijing Design Week in September, 2011.

SURFACE is an interactive installation that reduces the immense scale of Beijing into an intimate and individual experience. Each person has an influence on their urban environment, and the greater city impacts each individual in turn. SURFACE reflects that experience by transforming a map of Beijing, enormous in scale, onto each individual’s face, creating a digital mask that combines person and urban environment. Each unique hybrid mask is added into a series of remapped personal environments, which come together to represent the wealth of individual perspectives that create the spirit of Beijing.

Created using openFrameworks.