(re)ACT is an interactive artwork/ installation that explores the potential of activated architecture.  More specifically, architecture that is responsive to the user by visually or kinetic engagement. In this piece, viewer sees her or himself being projected through a traditional Shoji screen. The viewer quickly sees that their movements can actually create visual elements on the screen. In this piece, I simply made the letters (Re) and the Chinese character meaning to change, rebuild, to remake. These symbols then seem to network and interact with one another while responding to the movements of the viewer. I intentionally chose the to use the Shoji screen for the piece as it is an excellent translucent medium for projection (rice paper), and that it immediately provides the juxtaposition of tradition/ old world with the digital, new world.

The piece is premised on the acknowledgment and acceptance that new technologies, primarily the internet, have drastically and irreversibly changed our engagement and relationship with each other, our towns and cities, and the world. New social and economic realities are drastically reshaping our society. The internet has created a state of Flux. In this state, hyper mobility, accessibility, and simultaneity are the rule. 

The work was installed at the entrance to Platform(01), an art space located Beppu, Japan.