Two full moon / Yu Zhang
http://twofullmoon.com/TWO FULL MOON plays with historical cultural roots of the deep, yet transient connection between human desire and the moon, and reflects it through interactivity back into visual contents. The work TWO FULL MOON is rooted in layers of emotion and inherent humanness that intentionally contradicts or even rejects any notion of the Space Age. It is a result of artist’s experimentation with collecting, repurposing and locally grounding data streams of anonymous participation on the Internet. The data serves as input for the artwork that selectively represent both remote audience and artistic intent. While technology permeates, this work expresses the human desire to bond with nature without techne’s lens obscuring our being and feeling in the world.
Yu ZHANG (NL/CN) approaches Interactive Art with mixed reality installations and projections, sensor-based interactives and computational arts. She roots her artistic intent in the symbolism of Asian traditions and transforms the artistic unpacking of drama and cultural signifiers into experiences of interactivity and connectivity that ultimately bridge artistic expression and audience experience. Especially interactivity is an indispensable aspect of her work that creates and transcends audience presence into known and perceived aspects of the audience’s being. Starting from simple interactives, she constructs layers of different connections between artist, artwork, audience, and the environment to express how far such connectivity can impact and reshape the structure and relations of objects, space, and time within a dynamic audience experience.https://yuzhang.nl/https://www.instagram.com/yuzhangishere/