Shower-thoughts

Apr 2024
Virtual Reality / Spatial Animation

Vintage bathtub, VR headset, 1 channel video projection, size variable

What happens in our minds when we are taking a shower? This is an art project about shower-thoughts. In this project, the author has collected his thoughts during bathtub bathing. Using frame-by-frame VR animation, the author recreated 6 independent scenes based on 5 selected shower-thoughts. Starting from “When you swim underwater, you are also swimming above water,” ending with “For a moth flying to a flame, the bonfire is its sun, and the firefly is its star.” 
The outcomes were displayed in an exhibition in which the audi ence will be invited to lie down in a real bathtub and experi ence the visualized shower-thoughts in a VR headset. The project aims to disseminate shower-thoughts as a form for documenting and sharing ideas generated during mind wan dering. It further explores the application of creative painting in VR as well as its limitations.
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我们淋浴时脑海中会发生什么?这是一个关于 “淋浴思考” 的艺术项目。在这个项目中,作者收集了自己泡澡时的想法。通过逐帧虚拟现实动画,作者根据精选出的 5 个淋浴思考场景,重新创作了 6 个独立场景。内容从 “当你在水下游泳时,你同时也在水上游泳” 开始,到 “对于扑向火焰的飞蛾来说,篝火是它的太阳,萤火虫是它的星星” 结束。
该项目的成果在展览中展出,观众会被邀请躺在真实的浴缸里,通过虚拟现实头显体验这些可视化的淋浴思考。此项目旨在将淋浴思考作为一种记录和思维游离时产生的想法的形式进行传播,同时进一步探索创意绘画在虚拟现实中的应用及其局限性。

Project Lead: Alex BAI
Supervisor: Elke Reinhuber


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