Under the Skin
Individual Project
Tools: Arduino, Steering engine, LEDs
This interdisciplinary project reimagines the visceral dialogue between emotions and organs in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) as an immersive sensory experience. By translating seven emotional states and their corresponding visceral rhythms—derived from classical texts and modern biometric data—into dynamic LED light behaviors (pulsation, chromatic shifts, rotational patterns), the work materializes the invisible symbiosis of body and mind.
The installation operates as both artistic expression and research tool: participatory interactions generate real-time feedback loops, where viewers' physiological responses reshape the luminous ecosystem. Through algorithmic abstraction of TCM's "five zang-organs" theory, I bridge millennia-ancient wisdom with contemporary datascapes, inviting reflection on emotion as a somatic language.
Hybrid methodologies—literature analysis, bio-responsive prototyping, and performative public engagement—dissolve boundaries between clinical observation and embodied intuition. Light becomes a mediator, rendering the ephemeral tangible.
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