bachelor of design computing & master of interaction design and ...

Luke Hespanhol,
Mela Sogono
and Ge Wu
(Goldy)
Liquid Light, 2011
Interactive video installation
Installation Studio: Liquid Light, SmartSlab and
Processing.
Every day, we cross paths with familiar strangers
– the melancholy man who sits on the same
seat in the train, the young woman sharing our
steps to the oce building, the teenager with
the same penchant for our favourite restaurant.
We are aware of their existence, but we do not
communicate with them.
...Or do we?
Liquid Light is an interactive video installation
stemming from the concept of “familiar
strangers” – people we meet regularly yet fail
or simply avoid reaching through and striking a
more direct relationship. It plays with concepts
of social responsibility and the often-immaterial
impact each person brings into their surrounding
environment.
The artwork alludes to the fluidity of the modern
social fabric, representing people in the audience
being connected by shining energy halos linking
their glowing auras while gliding through ripples
of dark water. Every now and then, glimpses
of enlightenment about their shared condition
are materialised as a fleeting burst of blinding
white light, only to fade again, in an endless
continuum.
Human interconnectedness is way stronger than
we realise. The distances between us are not
empty spaces, but entities permeated by the
energies we produce.
We are inescapably bonded.
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