Navigating Worlds/Travellers & Demons

E-motion Cloud is a performative engagement with the emotional flux of social media that traverse across media and user. Situating the social media sentiment as a digital weather/atmosphere that affects users’ emotions as the users affect the emotional field simultaneously, and seeing such exchange of energy as intersubjective and trans-corporeal phenomena, the project not only explores how human emotions play into the flux of digital “weather” but also took particular interests in how the sentiments of social media bots, AI and algorithm partakes in such digital emotional energy field. Incorporating data collection algorithms, AI sentiment analysis, and real-time interactive design, this project also explores co-constitution across digital entities including data, AI, and users. 

Proxy is an ongoing artwork taking place on Tumblr. Proxy imagines a near future in which our entire lives take place online. In this new reality where we can choose to present ourselves as anything or anyone, what defines our humanity? Would the ideal human form, incompatible with the virtual space, change?