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Jiayi Young
Shih-Wen Young
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San Francisco
May 17 - 20, 2012
“Points of Light”
Jiayi Young & Shih-Wen Young
in collaboration with Steven Thompson
Medium: ink and water color on tracing paper, LEDs, motions sensors
Year: 2012
In "Points of Light", Steven Thompson's original score was used to map pitch into color using A.Wallace Rimington's 1893 mapping scheme1. Rimington's color organ formed basis for projected lights accompanied the 1915 New York premiere of Scriabin's synesthetic symphony Prometheus: A Poem of Fire2. In this installation, lights are illuminated by moving shadows. The interaction can be non-sequential, multi-user and there is no audible sound to the piece. The music exists in the viewer's imagination.
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“Gee Whiz!”
Artists: Jiayi Young & Shih-Wen Young, in collaboration with M. Azevedo
Medium: found cardboard boxes and other found material, wheat paste, motion sensors, sound and light
Year: 2012
This room size camera obscura was created as a statement on consumerism. We purchase and consume goods in excess of our basic needs. As a society, we transport goods at a massive scale to satisfy our consumption needs. Cardboard boxes you see in this installation were used to transport produce, coffee, furniture, electronics, etc. Nearly every move we make connects to consumption; every sound we make connects to that movement. Historically, cameras have been used to capture a moment in time. Enclosed in this camera obscura are ever-evolving moments of consumption. Movements on the street are brought into the camera obscura by light, projected upside down on the walls; twenty four sample sounds of our daily consumption can be triggered by these upside down moving imageries. Visitors to the installation are observers of consumption taking place.
“Scensing”
Artists: Jiayi Young & Shih-Wen Young
Medium: glass, liquid, frequency generator
Year: 2011
commissioned by AchemS, The Association for Chemoreception Science
This installation is a metaphorical display of the convergence and interaction of senses. The audience will see five glass containers filled with scented colored water/liquid. Each container represents one of the five sensory perceptions: hearing, sight, touch, smell and taste. The containers are placed on a platform which is driven by a frequency generator. The audience is invited to adjust the frequency and amplitude. At certain frequencies, the glass containers chatter incessantly, and display resonance pattern(s) in one or more containers. At other frequencies, the glasses are nearly silent, and the resonance patterns disappear or are barely visible. This installation intrigues us to imagine the inter-relatedness of sensory perceptions such as visual-auditory sensory convergence in synesthetes.
"One Moment in Time" - The Hermitage, Russia
11/25/2009 05:27:33 PM by Jiayi & Shih-Wen Young
13" x 20", archival Inkjet print on Somerset Velvet watercolor paper
Limited Edition of 50