Spatial Hyperlink

Spatial Hyperlink reflects the idea of ideal social interaction mode. We hope to arouse viewers’ awareness toward the others. It attempts to connect people’s psychological states via speaking boxes by which images and sounds can be transmitted over an unexpected distance. People are able to influence the other door inside the box via opening the door. The devices installed in different places become a giant communication network. With each opening, people and the scenes behind them will be shown to people from the other side of the world. We believe the device is giving to transform social interaction worldwide.

Spatial Hyperlink, telecommunication art installation, established a link between spaces and enabled people behind different doors to meet. Each door made us think of a linear crossing of our space as if it is linked under the ground. Different boxes are connected to a real-time network, in which spatial information is transferred via opening the door. The signals of the door provide the user opportunities to get in touch with other participants. So that people can connect with others in different places. These remains transform everybody's opening behaviors into a unique experience, into a personal assemblage made up of sounds and images through their interactions. While opening the door, people can talk and see others across different places face to face. The sounds of knocking on the door and the user’s voices are anchored in space and attract passersby to come near and respond.Breaking the temporal and spatial constraints, everyone's movement within spatial information is a way to speed up connecting. The telecommunication event is started with people passing by the installation when the infrared ray detected the passersby. “Hyperlink” happened when opening doors in the time of any clues left across different spaces.The linking process does not only concern a definitely established building up of sounds and images but does concern the visitors’ exploratory behavior. People can talk, smile, give a kiss to each other, or just ignore it. A new kind of social interactive mode emerges the moment when the knocking door is answered.