Collaborated with
Backspace Tokyo
Eric Siu
2017
#HKDI #big_data #interactive_screen #technology #8K #interaction #interactive_simulation #touch #visual_effects #Hong_Kong_landscape #design #multiplayer #Google_Earth #Victoria_Harbour #education #real-time_tracking #depth_camera
HKDI Media Lab is a platform that brings integrated innovative ideas and media technological insight to academia and industrial practitioners in all design disciplines. The captioned project is to influence students with integrate media technology. On the other hand, it aims as showing the industry and stakeholders the creative energy and design sense of HKDI students. The project used an exclusive 10 meters wide interactive TV wall as the interface, and is produced by the media lab and professional artist collective from both Hong Kong and Japan.
To create permanent and impactful content that expresses the branding of HKDI Media Lab, and allow visitors to understand the lab and HKDI through an engaging experience. The work also planned to be sustainable by treating the content as a system as well to archive/ showcase featured students works. Therefore, the sub-content can be continuously renewed for long term purpose.
To create a stunning visual effect, the artist had captured the landscape of Hong Kong through Google Earth and created 3D models, which eventually used for artistic interpretation of a unique Vitoria Harbour. On top of that, 4 independent buildings that designed base on primitive geometries were created to represent 4 departments of HKDI. The users can touch the buildings on the screen to navigate the corresponding information and students’ works.
Technically, the 10 meters wide TV wall makes possible to present 8K dynamic real time images, which allow users to interact with the screen with close proximity while still keeping sharp visual. Moreover, the installation is the first project on campus that using body tracking interaction – while a user moving in front of the screen, a star in the content will follow him/her. When 3 users simultaneously touch the stars, a splendid scene will be triggered as a climax of the experience.
