Cultural Invisible Memories
Visual System
Digital Media
Interaction
What does it feel like to be proud of a culture you can no longer recognize up close?
My Role
Main Designer
Team
Sole Designer
Timeline
Jan 2023 - May 2023
Industry
Art & Culture
Tools
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Arduino, TouchDesigner
"When culture becomes content, how do we keep its specificity from disappearing?"
Data Visualization Posters of three areas
"Say 'home.' Now walk five kilometers and say it again , it won't sound like home anymore."
This interactive postcard display invites the audience to engage with the daily life and cultural nuances of minor inhabitants in the Jiangnan region near Huizhou through a multisensory experience.
Audio Mix: Each postcard features a curated soundscape combining local dialects spoken by native residents and traditional regional opera, capturing the essence of place through voice and melody.
Timestamped Audio Guide: Viewers can follow provided timestamps to explore specific dialect sounds within the audio mix, allowing for guided listening and linguistic comparison across regions.
Calligraphy Interaction Area: An adjacent space invites the audience to practice writing local dialect words using Chinese calligraphy, encouraging hands-on engagement with tonal inflection and regional character forms.
"Every dialect leaves a shape in the air. This is what yours looks like."
Visitors speak into the microphone in their dialect, and the sound shapes itself into a visual only that voice could make.
2023
Brooklyn, New York
