An artist's statement indicating

Being together is an important factor for maintaining family relations especially in dining time. It began with the dining room. When it comes to mealtimes, does your family share the experience around the dining table? Or do you rush around, eating at different times and in different places?

The dining room is a genuinely common place to eat, to talk to meet and to see. We always hope to spend quality time eating together as a unit. However, sometimes it’s really hard to gather every member together. As a result, we designed this project linking the dining times by applying space design and information techniques to enable the sense of being together for people who are not at home.

This project is to allow family members exchange their living experience by the living locus on the dining table across space and time. The information interface is a dining table (includes a video camera, a computer 4 sensors, a ceiling projector and a speaker.) We explored the design and the use of former live-taped video to address living together (emotional) challenges.

Our feelings, perceptions, memories and life can be told and represented with regarding to a home by seeing the “locus” (the previous shadow recording) leaving on the table. The purpose of this project is not only to transfer information, but to ensemble the right kinds of spatial atmospheres for the space where communication takes place.

This project presents a concept – Spatial Hyperlink. We designed an installation to open up a new direction of intervention for human between time and space. The objective is to find out what can be accomplished by using available media devices within space design to realize the concept of “living together” and also to find out what are the applicable contexts for such hyperlinks to be meaningful.