Myth from the Future

Myth from the Future focuses on the idea of reflecting/reminding how current technology has blended into our daily lives, physical and mental bodies by referring to the ancient Chinese classic literature, “the Classics of Mountains and Seas”. Can you imagine how a human being will evolve into a 3-head-man in the future? No need to wait, because actually, we ARE this kind of 3-head “tech-species” (a species with tech-devices merging) if you consider our smartphone, laptop as heads, and plus our own head. Although many strange living things were no longer existing but written down in “the Classics of Mountains and Seas”, this project attempts to take these creatures in these tales of marvels as metaphors to indicate people who wear/hold hi-technology gadgets and the robotic creatures as “tech-species”. Through this 3-4 minute life experience, one of the audiences will become the “tech-species” by controlling the instrument to influence the immersive audio and visual effect in real-time.

The whole experiencing in this installation is a journey of bodily senses experience! The project is an interactive installation lasting around 3-4 minutes as a cycle. One of the audiences will volunteer to wear the easily-take-off interactive instruments as a controller (a gamepad-based garment) attaching to his/her body/limbs. By actively moving his/her body, this active audience wearing the instrument will influence/interact with the visual and sound effects of the projecting background. This particular active audience will “be/come” the “tech-species” in the experience while the other passive audiences may stand freely and do observation within the dynamic immersive visual-audio interactive environment.