Johnson Liew

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Location:


  • New Taipei City, Northern Taiwan, TW

Bio:

  • Liew is on a team comprised of four new media artists of different nationalities (Taiwan, Malaysia, China). Their fields of expertise include interactive programming design, digital music, visual design, animation effects, interactive installations, interdisciplinary art, and more. Currently, all members of the team are studying at the Graduate School of New Media Art at National Taiwan University of Arts, where they work with other creative members of Pey-Chwen Lin Digital Art Lab. Under the guidance of Professor Pey-Chwen Lin, the team has been participating in important exhibitions and competitions both in Taiwan and abroad.

Writings and Presentations:


  • Title: Record One Message to The Person You Love!
    Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
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    Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2017: Mind-Body Dualism
    Abstract Summary:

    The title, “Record One Message to The Person You Love!”, invite the audience to stand in front of the voice reception installation and say a few words to their loved ones. These messages will be processed by the processing computer program in real-time and converted into dynamic data images according to audience’s volume and frequencies of voices. The messages can also be immediately converted into 3D printing model files, which can then be printed into unique white vinyl disc-shaped objects engraved with each person’s own identity markings. In the end, each of the 3D printed objects will be displayed on the wall. Audience will be able to use the AR interface on the mobile device to replay the messages and videos corresponding to each of the 3D prints. Also expresses the feelings one has towards a lover through just a few words during interaction with the work.

    Through this work, we discuss how in the digital age, all of our messages may someday become souvenirs to be stored, printed, and replayed records. Through exhibition in different countries and locations, and the collection of messages to their loved ones by a large number of people, this installation has the potential to become a big database. Gradually, with an ever increasing number of messages recorded, it might even become a museum for sound and memory. Also expresses the feelings one has towards a lover through just a few words during interaction with the work.

    Title: Notations
    Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
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    Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2016: Mediated Aesthetics
    Abstract Summary:

    For the work, CYCLE, viewers can pluck the interactive kinetic instrument to instantly compose music and produce clefs on the projection screen. The clefs on the screen appropriate from the ancient clefs used in Gregorian Chants of the 15th century. Composed of these ancient clefs and tabs, each note is presented through squares, belonging to unaccompanied monophonic music clefs. The interactive mechanical instrument creates clefs using Arduino, Adafruit, Processing, Max/MSP, Bluetooth, LED, 3D printing, acrylic, and metal tubes, enabling viewers to instantly play the instrument on-site and create various clefs. The music generated is instantly converted into the correct clefs, which are projected onto the screen. When there are no viewers present, it will automatically play and present the sounds and clefs previously created by viewers, expressing the digital aesthetics of interactive technology art and collaborative creation, and imbuing digital kinetic instruments with more cultural and musical qualities.

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