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Thesis Info
- LABS ID
- 00757
- Thesis Title
- Conduit
- Author
- Yasong Li
- E-mail
- yasongli.chouchou AT gmail.com
- 2nd Author
- NA
- 3rd Author
- NA
- Degree
- Master of Fine Arts
- Year
- 2019
- Number of Pages
- 28
- University
- Parsons the School of Design
- Thesis Supervisor
- Marisa Jahn
- Supervisor e-mail
- jahnm AT newschool.edu
- Other Supervisor(s)
- Loretta Wolozin
- Language(s) of Thesis
- English
- Department / Discipline
- Copyright Ownership
- Yasong Li
- Languages Familiar to Author
- Chinese
- URL where full thesis can be found
- www.yasongli.com/conduit
- Keywords
- intimacy, technology, self-revelation
- Abstract: 200-500 words
- Conduit is an art installation that explores how we present ourselves in public space — and in light of ever-tightening surveillance. By layering up three digital screens that represent dimensions of self-revelation: the intimate-self, the presenting-self and the surveilled-self, Conduit showcases and reveals the choice of artist, a young Asian female, made to expose her figure in the public space with the intention of transmitting the emotional experience to viewers as well as raising questions about self-revelation to catalyze the iconic moment of viewers.
The exploration and experiment process of the project is also part of it. I threw ‘me, myself, and I’ into the mix and experienced the difficulty of separating myself between the performing self and documenting self. This project, from the perspective of self-shooting and self- performance, is a self-cognition process that enables me to know myself better.