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.