Pey-Chwen Lin

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Most Recent Affiliation:


  • National Taiwan University of Arts, Multimedia and Animation Arts, Professor

Location:


  • Taiwan

Bio:

  • Pey-Chwen Lin is a professor in Multimedia and Animation Arts and directs the Digital Art Laboratory at National Taiwan University of Arts.

Collaborations:


  • Notations
    Notations
    [Johnson Liew] [Jie-Jun Zhu] [Sheng-Chieh Wang] [Jia-Ying Chou]
    [SIGGRAPH Asia 2016     ]

    • Writings and Presentations:


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

      In Syuhai, where I grew up, there is an old trail that connects the “Puyuma to Longkiau”. My hometown and the area surrounding it is home to a large population of indigenous people, and their ancestral spirit is the hundred-pace pit viper. Therefore, I used a 360 degree camera to capture the the left and right sides of the trail, and converted the image to simulate a half-human, half-snake perspective. With these images, I invite viewers to put on the VR device, and together enter the imaginary world of a hundred-pace pit viper traversing this ancient trail. This work also discusses the human perspective, where we use our eyes to see the world in front of us, whereas the sounds we hear with our ears come from the two sides of us. In this work, viewers can switch from the human perspective to see the world from two sides through the eyes of the hundred-pace viper, and experience the wonder of the merging of your auditory and visual perception.

      This psychological landscape created using the VR device not only takes us back along the path once taken by the ancestral spirit of the indigenous people, it also allows us to experience the blending of the real and virtual world.

      Title: Notations
      Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
      Author(s):
      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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