Modern lives are increasingly becoming more flexible, connected and mobile. How do you update your living space to communicate the themes of mobility and its influence on people's lives? The People+ installation exposes flaws of communication, and stresses the fact that mobile communication expands the boundaries of a person and augments the distances one can reach.
The installation uses the human figure symbol (imagine a stick figure) and the "+" sign as a vehicle to tell a story; and the story is simple - connect one human being to another and you have created a network and mobile communication is all about networks. It's a type of emotional math if you will.
From that "equation", how does the installation look? A cloud of human figures and "+" signs hang from the ceiling and react to mobile phone activities like calls, SMS, MMS, etc. When this happens, the cloud becomes alive with steams of light flowing between the objects. The objects glow and dim, a human figure, a "+" sign, another human figure, another "+" sign and so on. An imaginary line is then created portraying a trajectory of activity. The result is beautiful and hypnotic.
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