Yummi

The music video made for NUO, a cultural regeneration Web3 project initiated by TraditioNow Lab. As a mysterious ceremony with a history of thousands of years in China, "Nuo" involves various cultural content such as masks and body movements. Its religious purpose has been fading away as being passed down to the modern era, while the spiritual core of ancestor reverence and natural-related imagination has never changed. 

  
Team: Weiran Yao / Luyang Zou / Issue Wang

| For the whole project performance documentary please visit https://weiranyao.cargo.site/Floating-Life |

  
The animation made for Floating Life, which is an experimental theatrical project that explores the boundaries of space and sensory perception through the mediums of digital projections, installations, dance, and music performances. selected by Berlin Shorts and London New Wave Film Festival in 2022, this project presents the spiritual journey of humanity in four chapters within a multimedia environment. In the white box space of the performance presentation, the animation is projected onto three walls and the ceiling using mapping technology, serving as the scenes’ background and narrative aid for the performance.

  
Team: Weiran Yao, Yuyang Cheng, Luba Hilman

Floating Life

| For game experience please visit https://weiranyao.cargo.site/Concave-Lens |

  
Concave Lens is a video game project focusing on the disconnection and marginalization that trans people encounter, as well as the recognition they acquire in the process of gender construction journey. 

  
It mainly discusses the homelessness and unidentification of transcestry from an archiving and historical perspective, with the intention to create a safe space for “theirstory” with unoverwritten voices, as well as interpreting situations the target group is going through in a creative way.

  

Concave Lens

Above the Puddles is an integrated project about the impact of technological media development on human miniature intercourse and a possible future of it. The project involves experimental short films, audio visualizations, and remote interactive installations, and is made of two main platforms, a website and an offline installation which have a subtle connection of control, monitoring and mutual influence - based on the facial recognition data of online audiences of the website, unique sounds and smells would be generated on the installation remotely, and affect the experience of the device user.

  
Team: Weiran Yao, Jingyi Zhang, Yingfei Xiong, Zongfu Xu

  
The work was exhibited in IKLECTIK, London

on July, 2021.

Above the Puddles

| Experience the VR space: https://hubs.mozilla.com/ZwNzXSa/main-square |

A \*\*\*\*\*\*\* Talks (Asterisks Talks or A-Talks) is an online platform of stories and talks aiming to break through the power structures that silenced international artists through censorship, combining website and online VR spaces. In order to achieve that, A-Talks is committed to deliver novel content through the medium of personal and intimate stories of lived experiences from censored artists around the world to a wide audience. Ultimately, A-Talks hopes to create learning experiences and create engaging conversations and interactions.

Team: Weiran Yao / Jingyin Luo / Minrong Chen / Pierre Engelhard / Jason KIM

A ******* Talks

| The state of play video and game experience link can be found at https://weiranyao.cargo.site/Omen |

  
OMEN is an integrated project combining web interactive game, installation & projection, animation and moving image. In the project, the persona of an internet influencer/ streamer was designed for a fish named Nemo, and audiences can experience the game by getting into Nemo's fake live streaming room and entering different storylines by interacting in the comment section of it.

  
Using abstract visual language, The project intends to imply the fluidity of cyber identities by presenting the subtle relationship between changes in the fish's life states, and the public opinions of its "audiences".

OMEN

Noktua is a product designed for Finnish mental healthcare service company Alatar.Inc. It’s a web game based on PC which guides customers towards personalized mental health services. Customers will be asked to make choices in the game and therefore gives some initial and basic information about their personality, life situation and what kind of services should be customized to the psychologist. The researches/art design was based on the Finnish natural environments.

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