One of the featured projects in my graduation project: Alternative spatial integrity in video chat. In search of (un)mediated particularities of communicative space.
This work is part of my graduation project in which focuses on unfolding the alternative spatial integrity in video chat. In order to further extend the idea of relative position and corporeal body awareness into a hand-held experience. I combined the geographical coordinate system into the video-calling experience, to enhance the sense of being here and virtual connectivity of relating the actual location of the other interlocutor. I poetically imagine there is an invisible line that connects us no matter how far we are separated. We like the sailor lost our way home on the digital/actual/ imaginary ocean, we need a compass to get direction. In this prototyping, I built an external device that could control the front camera while we did video-calling. We cannot see each other's faces as we keep searching for the assigned heading until we face each other geographically.