2019 - Present

Independent Project

Thousand Forces is an ongoing project, focusing on recent and current incidents around the world, particularly taking the Hong Kong as a trigger, a chisel, to dig. Now following and researching the even of Wuhan Coronavirus, collecting media materials from China and other sides. 

 

Design Tools:

City Generator: CAD

Image Application: Photoshop, Cinema 4D

Data Collecting: SQL

Data Visualization: Illustrator, Tableau

Virtual Reality Development: Unity

 

Thousand forces formed into one single thread, thousands threads formed a string, strings are bonding together to form a giant, a monster.

As a duo project of 44:44, Thousand Forces will also use VR set to invite the viewer enter the world of forces, the monster temple where one will see thousand strings forming into a monster.

Is it a puppet or is it the master of all?

 

Project Goals and Importance:

This project attempts to explore the mist behind this ongoing history and to discuss the relation of power and individual, and finally to set the question and discover the answer.

1. Research and visit the Hong Kong event, and compare to other ongoing events happening at the same moment; Extract data from interview and networks to build a net of media scandal;

2. Create an interactive VR application that explores the ideology of this project.

 

Addressing the project:

General Step:

1. Collecting materials from fieldwork, analyzing the current data from social media, organizing the materials from interviews and research;

2. Analyzing various as a whole, developing a theory behind all the threads, taking this theory as an object and using VR to give it a body.

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Goal 1 Specific Steps:

1. Follow and visit the events happening in different places in Hong Kong;

2. Document whatever I see, I hear, I notice and I feel;

3. Interview different people in Hong Kong;

4. Collect and select material from different side of social media;

5. Develop a visualization based on the observation and research;

6. Analyze these events around the world and find the similarity;

7. Develop a theory based on the analysis.

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Goal 2 Specific Steps:

1. Take the theory from Goal 1 to a brainstorm;

2. Develop a model based on the theory;

3. Develop the method of interaction;

4. Final prototype.

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​​Ideology:

    There are so many issues in this world, and some of them are actually not that complex. Things happened in Catalonia, Scotland, Chechnya, Crimea, Israe-Pakistan, Cyprus, Kosovo, East Timor and Western New Guinea, East Ukraine, Sudan, Rwanda, Iraq, Syria, and ISIS. These complexities can be caught a main thread by researching details. At lease if you come closer, it gets clearer.

    But HK problem have layers beyond layers, a cube full of strings after another cube. It is complex in dimensions – horizontally compare from international society and human modern history – at beginning, these street protests might have a clear conclusion, yet it gets more perplexing when you observe.

    I don’t think this world will get any better, and most likely it can only get worse. (here, in 2020, I have to believe this saying gets more and more convincing.) I, sometimes, think that this might be a rehearsal for something more destructive. If we have adjusted this major change in catastrophe, and we fell into the flow, what choice we can make?

    In those great changes, every news, compose and spread, is manipulated, not matter it is from inside or outside of Wall. It feels like lost in a block of mist. A ghost field puzzled by the fog from the name of a Nation. The glory built by sacrifice, protected by lies. This so-called peace is fragile and constructed by innocent chesses.

    This fogs poisoned everyone. Illness is never alone, it is a part of larger network. Environment, politics, society, history are in it. Family, education, daily lives, working are in it. In this network, the appearance of illness has symbolled the devastation of system. People in downstream are saving people in the river without knowing what happened at the upstream. Everything is tangled now, nurturing, reflecting and defining each other.

    They have covered our mouths. Now they want us to cover our children’s eyes.

    I want to see it with my own eyes, experience and document with my own body. I don’t want to read from news. At least now, I won’t witness this truth with a media in the middle. This power of conflict, the power of contradiction, are becoming strings beneath our steps in this current running planet. These strings push all the conflicts tangled together. These forces formed into an unknown. Or it is what we are so familiar with since the first bright sight shines in our eyes.