Bryan Wai-ching Chung lives in Hong Kong. He worked in the information technology industry before continuing his study in London and producing multimedia artworks. Besides teaching in a university, he actively engages in interactive media creation, including CD-ROM, interactive installation, Internet installation and software art. His works have been shown widely in Europe and Asia.

鍾緯正居於香港，在香港及倫敦求學。早年任職電腦公司，從事軟件工程工作。其後参與多媒體作品創作，現任大學教職。主要從事互動媒體創作，其中包括光碟製作、互動装置、網絡裝置及軟件藝術等。作品曾在歐洲及亞洲廣泛展出。


I Second that e-Motion

Artist Statement

It is a writing machine. A machine writes by itself automatically. Writing, in the usual sense, aims to establish its authority by being non-volatile. From time to time, we enjoy writing on the sand during our visits to the beach. Children may even build sand castles which by no means stand the tear and wear of wind and waves. Writing on sand can be a possible way to trigger reflection about volatility of recording and archive.

Digital media, according to what we learnt, demonstrates this volatile nature. In this project, I plan to make a simple machine that writes or draws on a pile of sand. The visible marks on the sand will not be legible but just records of what has been happening in the exhibition venue. Over the days of the show, it forms a historical archive of the visitors’ movement around the exhibit.

It is interactive, though I try to posit the piece as a parody of the motion tracking interactivity. It will be an artwork produced for exhibition in a gallery space with intended interaction from the visitors. It has no content in the traditional sense. Motion detection usually bases on a stationary camera, pointing to a relatively static background. Changes in front of the camera are compared with previous video frames. Motion is estimated by the various statistical or artificial intelligent computations. This installation purposely violates the above assumption and aims to set off an experiment with results yet to be observed.

這作品是一件文字紀錄機器，紀錄的作用在於能否把資訊確實留下。我們漫步於沙灘時都常會在沙上寫字留言，小孩甚至會建築城堡，當然風吹浪捲後便一無所有。沙上留字這行徑可讓我們思索紀錄的恆久。

數碼媒体又是否如沙上留字般無常？我創作這機器嘗試把展場內觀眾的反應紀錄在沙上，同時我亦打算對時下流行的動作追踪產品作戲謔式的回應。慣常的動作偵測都假設攝影機是靜止的，程式會比較不同時間的影像，用統計或人工智能的方法，計算出動作的軌跡。但這作品會刻意顛覆一切，觀眾與攝影機同時追逐，期望達致情緒交流，箇中神韻，只可到時在場內一睹之。