Maker Faire Coney Island 2025
A Moment of Love
How can love at first sight be emulated through an immersive sensory experience? This installation invites visitors into a soft, otherworldly encounter where shifting light, layered sounds, and delicate lenses blur distance and perception. Poetic visuals drift with responsive sensors, transforming fleeting emotions into an intimate moment. ‘A Moment of Love’ translates an emotionally complex notion into an experiential and interactive medium, using a combination of material poetry, physical properties of light and optics, layered sounds, and hypnotic visuals. It isolates the viewers from their surroundings, mirroring the figure-group relationship identified in romantic films as the first spark of love.
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Parsons Design+Technology
Parsons’ Design and Technology (DT) programs bring a critical intersectional lens to creative computation. Students explore the tools, methods, and theory needed to ethically reinvent the arts and creative industries. The diverse and vibrant DT learning community engages with a wide range of self-identified and ever-changing subjects including social media, games, data, machine learning, generative AI, bio design, digital fabrication, physical computation, and immersive experience design.
https://dt2025coneyislandmakerfaire.framer.websiteWhat Inspired You to Make This?
Romance films and media have been a point of solace, hopefulness and wonder all through my life. The simplicity of this human emotion which at its core is vulnerable yet brave, bashful yet loud, is a profound mystery. The feeling of love at first sight isn’t reserved for romantic connections but is rather a sudden connection to a moment, a person, a song, an object. These abstract emotional experiences are hard to describe and even harder to represent in media, often seen as rudimentary. The cultural tendency to categorize romantic media as 'lesser' reflects a gendered hierarchy in media and design. This project challenges that hierarchy by treating the visual language of love as worthy of serious artistic and technological exploration.
