Game Art: Huang Hsinchien' "Shanghai, Shall We Dance?" (2008)

"Huang Hsinchien’s work, "Shanghai, Shall We Dance?" tells a story in the public space of the Shanghai Museum of Art by turning an art hall into a place of relaxation and romantic dancing for ordinary people. Viewers are invited onto a typical Shanghainese dance floor for a spontaneous dance. The interactive nature of the work turns images of foreboding highrise buildings into images of visitors dancing together. The appearance of the buildings changes with the dancers body movements. City residents are used to urban space being segmented by buildings. However, this perception is questioned and inverted in this work, which guides viewers to rethink the nature of urban space and its causal relationship with their own actions from their own individual perspectives." (Huang Hsinchien)

"Hsin-Chien Huang is a content creator who is fluent with both digital technology and traditional art. He graduated from National Taiwan Universitys mechanical engineering department, then got his bachelor of art in Art Center College of design in Pasadena. He acquired his master of science in Institute of design in Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. He had collaborated with media artist Laurie Anderson with her first interactive CDROM Puppet Motel. He also had experience to work with computer entertainment companies like Sega and Sony as art director. After he returned to Taiwan in 2001, he established Storynest, a team of creative people to support his art creation. Hsin-Chien was the artist in residence for Chinese Culture University. Currently he is a devoted artist and also teaching at several universities on interactive media." (Hsin-Chien Huan)

Link: Huang Hsinchien

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