Live Streams

Photo by Shintaro Yamanaka (Qsyum!)
Installation view: Hello World―For the Post-Human Age at Art Tower Mito (Live Streams from 00:30)

An installation consisting of two monitors showing screens that mimic Instagram's Live stream. The inputs from cameras attached to the side of each monitor are captured on the screens. When visitors stand in front of the piece, they see their own image on the screens, and a large number of viewers, comments, and likes appear on one of the monitors. In contrast, the other monitor shows 0 viewers, 0 comments, and 0 likes, and there is no response at all, and only the interface is comparing the two completely different screens. After social media, modern people are becoming more and more sensitive to others' responses, so this project is meant to confirm the interface's influence on people's emotions.