scenario

Concept/
Door Between Us is an interactive installation about human connection through poetics of doors opening and closing.

User/ Gallery viewers








Video content/


Possible form/


Next step/
Shoot video.
control frame by analog input.

I would like to build physical sculptures of human connection for next semester.

precedent/

Invisible doors idea

Joseph Kosuth, One and Three Chairs, 1965

Door is an ubiquitous interface that I am interested in for its embedded abundant human collective memory and universal usability.

Developed from a daily object, a physical door has become an interactive connector leading to an imaginary world, a tele-interface between distant places, and also an illusion generator changing space and place.

Being far away form the place where I have been for 24 years, and feeling various mental and cultural interpersonal distance, I found there are more invisible doors between people. To take a door as an metaphor for separation and access from a person to another, I would like to make an interactive sculpture about human connection through poetics of doors opening and closing.

Plan/

The user can control the video frame by opening and closing the door. While it is open, two hands connected. While it is close, two hands become separated which representing a relationship is over. There will be several movie clip showing interpersonal relationship connecting and disconnecting.

Material/

video, door viewer, screen

In the future, I would like to make the video into a real movable gesture sculpture.

Here's the first try of controlling digital door by a physical one.

Physical and Digital Door from Hsiang Ju Hung on Vimeo.

Space illusion idea

Victoria Thierrée Chaplin, aurelia's oratorio, 2008
Right pic/ The performer creates an illusion that her limbs can move from drawers to drawers at ease. It looks like her body is deconstructed and moving remotely.
Left pic/ There is a train driving theough the performer's body.
In this show, I admired the way performers use the space and how all objects move to create illusions. There is a period of time when all things are living upside down. And sometimes the inside of the stage becomes outside of it because things move out from the right move in from the left at the same time. Very impressive.

Jan Svankmajer, Darkness Light Darkness


I see different ways of receiving information from a door and a lot of imagination behind it in this piece.

Inside Outside
Being inspired by many movies and performances. I am interested in how vision can change one's perspective and perception of a space. I would like to create a door that generate illusion of the inside is the outside to question where the user is.


Plan/
When a user passes the door, it would release knocking sound. When he tries to look into the door viwer, he would see himself inside the room.
Material/
Half-transparent glass, door viewer, screen, software



test with card board and mac laptop
result/
It looks like facing a mirror with a little time lag.
It needs to be added after effect of fish-eye looking view on the screen.

Tele-interface idea updated

Developed from previous idea of building a tele-door for distance users. It is sunset and sunrise that the environment changes the most everyday at the same time in both New York and Taipei. While the sun is going down, it is going up at the other side. I decided to make a door in New York leading to Taipei at this specific moment.
Sunrise Sunset
Plan/
Bring Taipei's sunrise to New York's sunset through a door viewer.
"This is how sun is going at the other side of the earth."

Material/
video, screen, door viewer.