Visualizing Invisible Cities has been selected for USA Emerging Designer Exhibit at Prague Quadrennial 2019.
Visualizing Invisible Cities Inspired by Italo Calvino’s novel Invisible Cities, Visualizing Invisible Cities is a self-authored and self-produced thesis project. It investigates how content in stories inspires and translates into different forms including writing, photography, installation, and lighting design. This project is composed through a three-step development process including a quotation project, a photography project, and an installation project.
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Art Installation
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quotation project The quotation project, #invisiblecities #italocalvino #mandarin #quote, started from reading both English and traditional Chinese translations of the book in order to approach the content and to observe how ideas are realized in different translations. The project extracted 12 quotes from Invisible Cities to see the content in another way and to find my own perspective of the work.
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step 1
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photography project The photography project, Visualizing Invisible Cities - Taipei, translated the thematic idea of duality from the book format into photography format. The project of 12 photos captures ephemeral scenes combining sight and reflection in Taipei.
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step 2
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installation project The installation project, my thesis presentation, attempts to transform inspirations from Invisible Cities’ writing method and Italo Calvino’s philosophy of literature by exploring reflectivity and materiality in a designed installation space.
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step 3
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photographed by Yi-Tai Chung