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Chaosphere
Mar 2024
Collaborate with Zongze Chen, Angle Mai, and Sharell Bryant
My Role:
Design, Digital and Physical Fabrication
Tools & Skills:
Tangenble Interaction Design, 3D Modling, 3D Printing,Casting, Prototyping
This piece is a commission project for the Data Through Design 2024 exhibition at BRIC, Brooklyn, New York.
Chaosphere is an interactive data visualization installation that looks at yearly trends in cooking gas usage in New York City. Through interacting with the inflatable burners on a stove, participants will look at monthly gas usage as well as brief video compilations of the related triumph, controversy, and hardship experienced by the human race in recent years. The piece uses cooking as a starting point to examine the tension between the aftermath of a chaotic world and the essence of living, fertility, and community.
Design
The cooking and preparation of food have historically served as a site of communion; changes in patterns of usage around the changing of seasons, the passing of years, and pre- and post-COVID times can illuminate subtle patterns in domestic life. The passage of time is visualized by fluctuations in the size of the inflatable spheres, as well as changes in projection mapping, resulting in a vibrant interactive experience that recreates the abstract emotional realities of changing times. Such visuals will be designed with major historical, cultural, and political moments in mind, utilizing sounds, images, and news clips that recall the sociological atmosphere of the time, such as the House’s Gas Stove Protection and Freedom Act passed earlier this year, which stirred up criticisms of misplaced legislator priorities. With the constancy of the hearth as communion, we invite strangers to join us in observing the turmoil of public life from within the intimacy of the private sphere.
Design
The cooking and preparation of food have historically served as a site of communion; changes in patterns of usage around the changing of seasons, the passing of years, and pre- and post-COVID times can illuminate subtle patterns in domestic life. The passage of time is visualized by fluctuations in the size of the inflatable spheres, as well as changes in projection mapping, resulting in a vibrant interactive experience that recreates the abstract emotional realities of changing times. Such visuals will be designed with major historical, cultural, and political moments in mind, utilizing sounds, images, and news clips that recall the sociological atmosphere of the time, such as the House’s Gas Stove Protection and Freedom Act passed earlier this year, which stirred up criticisms of misplaced legislator priorities. With the constancy of the hearth as communion, we invite strangers to join us in observing the turmoil of public life from within the intimacy of the private sphere.