Frustration After Fascination

As one of the major cultural institution in human society, museum plays a unique role in reflecting and shaping our collective culture tendency. This summer, three major museums in New York City almost simultaneously curated exhibitions based on one common theme: the influence of digital technology. This coincidence may symbolizes the tipping point of our collective needs to reflecting this societal shift. While “Talk to Me” in MOMA provides a... Read More

Otherworldly: Virtual Reality of Dioramas

Lingering in the exhibition “Otherworldly: Optical Delusions and Small Realities” for a while, I gradually got used to this mind-blowing game about manipulating perceptions. I thought one photo was portraying specific street scene, but it’s actually made by shooting an artificial small world constructed in the studio. Peeping into the window of a skyscraper model, I had an illusion that I was literally seeing a real office space, even with... Read More

Slow Movement

“Slow Data” is the term I heard in last Friday’s Creative Morning. It’s not from the speaker John Maeda. When an audience asked John Maeda how to slow down when everything is changing so fast (although I have no clue why he came out this question), another audience shared his opinion that Google recently launched an online/print publication “Think Quarterly” which could be termed as the trend of “Slow Data Movement.” When hearing... Read More