Alison Chung-Yan

new media artist & composer
04 net art

The Connections Project

The Connections Project 2002
net art
The Connections Project is an interactive sound-art motion-graphics piece inspired by the underlying rhythms of the Universe. From the circadian rhythms of the human body and the symbiotic pulses of the ecosystem … to the inorganic hums of our technological creations and the interplanetary motions of the stars …

Exhibition History:

Images Festival, Toronto. 2003
Java Museum for Internet Technologies in Contemporary Art, Germany. 2002

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Infinity

Steady State

Surveillance 2009

Surveillance 2009    [ work-in-progress ]
net art
Update of previous project of same name ported for modern browsers without using popup windows.

The Network

The Network    [ work-in-progress ]
net art
Exploring real-time in the world of social media.

Imprint

Imprint 2004
net art
Imprint explores notions of identity, memory and the traces we leave behind. What does legacy mean in the context of a disposable society for which impermanence is the only constant?
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Lorenz’s Butterfly

Lorenz’s Butterfly    [ work-in-progress ]
net art
An interactive web piece which draws its inspiration from Edward Lorenz’s famous quotation on the subject of Chaos Theory:

“When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another …”

04 net art, all works

Rhapsody on a Windy Night: Redux

Rhapsody on a Windy Night: Redux     [ work-in-progress ]
net art
Inspired by Bill Seaman’s recombinant poetics. Text from poem of the same name by T.S. Eliot published in 1915.
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Surveillance

Surveillance 2004
net art
Surveillance is a net art installation which explores the phenomenon of webcam surveillance on the Internet and its capacity to conjoin spaces near and far – physical and virtual – public and private. Housed within a single webpage, 15 smaller windows are gradually assembled security-camera style into a 5×3 matrix offering a near real-time glimpse of webcams situated around the world.

Unlike the fast-paced abbreviated snapshot of life depicted in a typical news broadcast, Surveillance attempts to show the world unfolding and moving to its own rhythm. It offers the chance to observe with the attendant possibility for things to happen – or simply be.

Exhibition History:

Global Crossings Gallery, Curators: Dennis Summers and Choy Kok Kee
Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Cambridge, MA, USA. 2006

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