"Quantumoji" - a trilogy that includes a Mutating Emoji video along with a documentation of people’s behaviour in a shopping mall in Suzhou; a CGI animation exploring the scale, materiality and spatial conditions of emojis; an installation exhibition (Gowanus Open Studio, New York) that invites audience through an immersive experience where Animojis were projected onto large-scale inflatables with audio visual effects corresponding to activities and happenings such as laughing, commuting, sleeping, sex, and death.

Use of emojis is becoming second nature in the same way that use of abbreviations has. The CGI animation is based in a speculative museum-like setting. Exploring its architectural materiality, colors, form, scale and movements.

The new “global language” - emojis shape a new form of communication and digital cityscape. The film depicts a voyeuristic perspective on people communicating via virtual scale within physical space.

Prototypically, one example shown here in the film: shot inside newly opened shopping mall “Suzhou Center”, a huge scale commercial complex almost becomes a city within a city (Suzhou). The comparison of the scale of the complex and enlarged emoji scale unfolds the iconic and symbolic interpretation of architectural emojis.

MUTATING CITIES is a spatial investigation of contemporary cities as sites of exchange. To see more projects: http://mutating-cities.com/

An installation piece as part of 2018 Gowanus Open Studio in New York. Produced by Ina Chen & Lujia Zhu, curated by SUPERFUND. The exhibition was a huge success - attracted thousands of people over the course of one week.

Eighty years ago, Ludwig Wittgenstein had a brainwave: “a face with closed eyes and a half smile”. Our descriptions towards emotions is much more flexible than they are as expressed by adjectives. While consciousness and cognition is shaped by language and communication- can our consciousness enter a quantum process of emoji as the only pictorial interaction? “Quantumoji” presents an office happening installation through immersive Audio Visual experience towards various activities and happenings: laughing, commuting, sleeping, sex, death and so on. Video mapping “Quantumoji” onto large-scale inflatables, it invites you to an alter space cognition trip.

"Quantumoji" - a trilogy that includes a Mutating Emoji video along with a documentation of people’s behaviour in a shopping mall in Suzhou; a CGI animation exploring the scale, materiality and spatial conditions of emojis; an installation exhibition (Gowanus Open Studio, New York) that invites audience through an immersive experience where Animojis were projected onto large-scale inflatables with audio visual effects corresponding to activities and happenings such as laughing, commuting, sleeping, sex, and death.

Quantumoji: Second nature

CGI Animation

Use of emojis is becoming second nature in the same way that use of abbreviations has. The CGI animation is based in a speculative museum-like setting. Exploring its architectural materiality, colors, form, scale and movements.

Quantumoji: mutations

Collaboration with "Mutating Cities" by Christoph Kumpusch & Youmna Chlala

The new “global language” - emojis shape a new form of communication and digital cityscape. The film depicts a voyeuristic perspective on people communicating via virtual scale within physical space.

Prototypically, one example shown here in the film: shot inside newly opened shopping mall “Suzhou Center”, a huge scale commercial complex almost becomes a city within a city (Suzhou). The comparison of the scale of the complex and enlarged emoji scale unfolds the iconic and symbolic interpretation of architectural emojis.

MUTATING CITIES is a spatial investigation of contemporary cities as sites of exchange. To see more projects: http://mutating-cities.com/

Quantumoji: Gowanus Open studio

Performance Installation

Ina Chen | Lujia Zhu | SUPERFUND by Hewn bros.,

An installation piece as part of 2018 Gowanus Open Studio in New York. Produced by Ina Chen & Lujia Zhu, curated by SUPERFUND. The exhibition was a huge success - attracted thousands of people over the course of one week.

Eighty years ago, Ludwig Wittgenstein had a brainwave: “a face with closed eyes and a half smile”. Our descriptions towards emotions is much more flexible than they are as expressed by adjectives. While consciousness and cognition is shaped by language and communication- can our consciousness enter a quantum process of emoji as the only pictorial interaction? “Quantumoji” presents an office happening installation through immersive Audio Visual experience towards various activities and happenings: laughing, commuting, sleeping, sex, death and so on. Video mapping “Quantumoji” onto large-scale inflatables, it invites you to an alter space cognition trip.