ying- chen joyce lin

Self-mixing is an interactive installation that begins with a thermal camera detecting body heat, blurring contours between the human figure and space. Heat data is processed via blob tracking - a computer vision technique that detects and follows moving objects in an image or video by identifying them as "blobs" of contiguous pixels - to control a rotating laser meter. The current is visualized in software and translated into sound. The device acts as an intermediary, amplifying invisible spatial data. In the recursive loop of observing and being observed, you are merged into a unified system with the space around you, dissolving boundaries and becoming extensions of each other. 

About the artist

Ying-Chen Joyce Lin integrates different interfaces and human data to build performative or interactive systems that explore the relations between technologies, mediated environments and the body, generating new ontological moments. The recurring theme in her work she explains as the following: "Body-extension is an experiment in intimacy. It refuses separation: skin and sensor, movement and mechanism, you and me. Knowledge is produced when the body is no longer confined to flesh."

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