“Moons over you: the poetic space of virtual and real” by Lee, Wu, Mazalek and Shen
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- Moons over you: the poetic space of virtual and real
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Seeing multiple moons visible overhead is not our normal experience in the real world. Even though we can picture this kind of experience in our imaginations, we cannot properly share it with others. It can only visually exist in our own individual minds. We would like to share this experience by creating a poetic installation space of virtual and real, where multiple moons can follow us around. In this gallery room, the audience can share their own imaginative and individual experience with others. Moons Over You also raises questions regarding how subject can be related with object, and how subject can also be related with other subjects through the experience of multiple moons. When an audience member enters the room, she soon realizes that the moon is following her as she walks around. We often feel like the moon is chasing us, for example when we drive around in our cars and see the moon always with us. But there is only ever one moon. In this poetic space, when a second person enters the room, another moon rises up above his head and starts to follow him as well. Thus this person can also create his own individual relationship with the moon. As more visitors enter the room, moons keep rising, creating an individual relationship for each audience member.
