DECODE -Digital Design Sensations

In modern society, more and more contemporary art created based on the development and the application of digital technology. It was not only gradually affect artists’ work, but also stimulate view’s sensory perception and visual experience. The exhibition Decode: Digital Design Sensations left me a deep impression on the creativity of digital arts.

This exhibition is a collection of the latest digital and interactive design work, based on screen, projection, interactive installations. most of the art work aimed to make a great breakthrough in communication with the audience by using new tech. Be different from traditional art form，in this exhibition the audience is no longer just a viewer who enjoy the art work, they are becoming the participant and even creator at the same time. As an example, interaction designer and creative technical director Ross Phillips designed an installation that allows viewers to record short videos broadcast in grids on a large screen. All the people who were invited to pose in front of the camera enjoyed themselves. He describes his work as mainly ‘real world’ interactive installations, that ‘giving people a blank slate and a tool to be creative with’. The work are directly influenced and gave viewers a good acting experience.

Moving on to the next stage, when the photography and video tools have become readily available for everyone, then it will become a new communication language. Artist allow public to participate in their works. In deed, Contemporary art are not mysterious and isolated. It will be an great opportunity for artists learn more about themselves and the public. From this side audience is not a mere passive viewer anymore.

In addition, another interactive installation named Exquisite Clock is based on the idea that time is everywhere and that people can share their own vision of time through internet. The project connects time, play and visual aesthetics, designer Joao Henrique Wilbert invited website users collect and upload images of numbers that can be found by themselves onto a website data, then he created the clock by using these number pictures. It is interesting that it combined social interaction and network technologies on the clock screen, and make sense of dynamic time conception. As a result this work remind me a question that how to enhance the relationship among arts and the public. New technologies allows information transmit and share with the public through the network. The way become more popular and easy to understand, also, this feedback loop is more changeful and free.

From then on, I will continue to develop my project research Playing with Time. The idea of create new visual transmission to examine theatrical time concept and the possibility of an interactive performance. While in terms of Decode, I improved my idea that designer and audiences both can enrich its content and method of artwork expression by using technology. These activities have been inspiring and fruitful, and have helped me.