Breathing Foundations is a light show I created for the LED facades of 43 skyscrapers around the Civic Center in Shenzhen’s Futian District. It premiered on the night of December 21, 2019, opening the 2019 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture. The piece was awarded Third Prize by an international jury. It stayed in the city’s rotation in the years that followed.
On November 17, 2019, I gave a keynote at the UABB Shenzhen Light Show International Forum, Reviewing Lights of the City, at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Planning Exhibition. I spoke in the session “Language Generation and Value Expression of Lights,” alongside Dariusz Makaruk, Cao Yuxi and Zhang Shile.
Press: Shenzhen Daily covered the forum in its November 21, 2019 culture section, “New Algorithm-Based Light Show to Illuminate SZ.” The piece included a short profile of my work and my approach to interaction, which is that it should be easy to grasp without instructions while leaving room to build skill. Read the article (PDF)
