Works – Page 6 – John Cheung

23/03/202122/12/2021

Tinder is a good platform to see yourself. You show your pictures, representing your self recognization, you also find for interesting people (or sexy ones, 😉 ), reflecting your interest and criterion.

We interviewed 12 people on Zurich’s streets (more exactly, strasse), asked them to describe their Tinder profiles for us, in return, we did a sketch drawing of the description for them.

After a whole day of interviewing people in heavy rain, we came back and made the drawing just with the audio we recored in the interview.

The concept here is: On Tinder, people mainly focus on the photos but ignore the power of text. Behind text there can be more space for imagination, and that’s also what’s lack in todays society.

The final artwork includes 12 drawings and text from the people, as well as the audio montage of the description of their Tinder profiles.

With the red wall in Kino Roland, the ex-porn cinema, we also did live drawing for the audience of the show TNDR Launch Night.

Videos

23/03/2021

時差天窗

A poem in Chinese, 2019

猶如傷口上化了膿
揭開清洗很痛
所以勇氣不足
掩蓋著的被刻意忽略
膿血越積越多
勇氣越來越少
看著傷口周圍的完好皮膚
逃避著那嘔心的紅黃

全身的細胞動員
試圖彌合那傷口

但是大腦
用著嗎啡
帶來無知的幸福
遠離清醒的苦痛

而最終死於那小小的
只是皮膚百分之一的
傷口

23/03/2021

It and Me

2019, Video

I named the final work It and Me. It is a short video combining music, stop motion animation and generated images. The core of the work is reacting to the music, I drew on paper and made the stop motion animation with the music, and I wrote a code to visualize it. At first, I thought the images drown by me and the computer would be quite different, but the result comes that they are similar in some ways. That really surprised me.

This artwork is not trying to show how good or bad computer or human (more correctly, me) can recognize music. We react to the music in a, to some degree, very emotional way. What we can easily get from the music are the emotions and we can hardly recognize the physical characteristics, like sequence, of the music. The interesting thing is that, for a computer, it is quite the opposite. It is more like an exploration to the question: How would it look like if I put those images that refer to the same thing but produced in totally different logics and methods.

23/03/202122/12/2021

Hong Kong Night Machine

2019, installation

Hong Kong Night Machine is an installation about light pollution and my personal feeling about it. I record and recompose neon lights and LED advertisements in Monk Kwok, one of the most lit areas at night in Hong Kong. The images are then displayed on a low-resolution LED screen, on which they become abstract. I also record my brainwave during sleepless nights due to the strong light outside the window, then engrave the data onto physical filters that are put in front of the LED screen. The filters further deform the images and merge the data with the light from the screen.