In 2020, the pandemic has greatly changed our daily life. The artist noticed that during the quarantine an increasing number of people, including herself, were spending more and more time at home in their beds. The bed has become an intimate and versatile place to do a lot of things, including eating, reading, getting rest, and recovering from the stress caused by the chaotic situation. Therefore, she found the resemblance between beds and gardens in the aspect of spiritual healing and formed the idea of “Private Garden”.
Based upon this idea, the interactive installation Private Garden involves the projection of garden visuals onto the surface of a bed. A machine-learning algorithm is trained with a database of images from traditional Chinese gardens to generate the projected virtual garden. Visitors can lie in the bed and interact with the visual projection and ambient sound using their body movements, thus having an intimate and mimetic experience of wandering and resting in one’s private garden.
Qian Xu was born in 1990 in China. She has a background in industrial design, software engineering, and UI/UX design.
Credits:
This project has received funding from ÖH Projektförderung.
Technical support: Dr. -Ing. Ding Luo
Interface Cultures Exhibition - Ars Electronica Festival 2021
