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'Fluid Boundaries' by Woo Sok Jang falls in the category of 'Interactive Installation Arts, and deals with real-time rendered water effects, sound, and real elements, such as white mason sand. In this project, two things are important to stress to the audience. First, the work indirectly creates visual representation of the interactions between individuals and others in human society. Second, the audience will participate enjoy the experience of environments otherwise impossible in reality. |
| Setting Performance |
As stated, this work attempts to create visual representations of interactions via the mutual relation of boundaries between individuals and others in society. As humans have a basic instinct of self-preservation, and according to ‘the theory of symbol’ (Carl Jung, 1963), people always have their own variety of invisible layers and boundaries of different sizes that depend on his/her cultural background or personality and he/she strives to protect them without being violated. Such invisible boundaries seem clear when forming relationships with individuals and making ceaseless efforts not to infringe on others’ privacies. However, humans visit the boundaries of others depending on situations and converse with them and become friends with them by converging with them and combining their power. Humans broaden their relationships through interchange and mutual response, and through this process become members of a society. As such, ‘the boundaries of individuals’ in the lives of humans living with in a community are typically independent, but they are considerably flexible. To understand this statement, you must visualize humans and their boundary-oriented interactions as flexible liquids. Additionally, as Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss psychologist & psychiatrist emphasized, balance and harmony are important. “Modern humans rely too heavily on science and logic and would benefit from integrating spirituality and appreciation of the unconscious realm.” (Carl Jung, 1963) As an example of balance and harmony, logical programming and spiritual boundaries are supporting materials of fluid boundaries.
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| Walking Around |
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| Texture of the Floor |
In this way, his work enables the audience (participants) to naturally create their own dynamic and diverse boundaries through “interchange and protection” via interactions in virtual space and visualization. As a result, they are able to understand changes regarding the relationship between others and themselves naturally through such visualized flexible interactions. In addition, individuals are able to obtain feelings of pleasure through their new experiences in virtual reality.
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Flowchart
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As can be seen in the flow chart (Fig. 1), every process starts from a fire-wire camera. When the camera detects movements on the stage, it triggers visual effects to be executed from the MAC through the projector and onto the white sand. Movements also trigger sound effects. On the other hand, if motion detection is negative – or motion is absent – the fire-wire camera asks whether visual effects have already been executed. It decides reversion effects or reverts to the starting point of the flow chart.
Interface Design/Concept Art
Image Source: http://www.woosoki.com/blog/?page_id=79
‘Fluid Boundaries’ was installed in an exhibition space. White Mason sand was used as a projection surface in place of the floor. Real-time rendered sea wave effects were projected from the ceiling towards the white sand. People were allowed to walk on the sand space
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