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Student Showcase Archive

Hua Zhang

MA work

MA work

  • Rationality and Emotion

    Rationality and Emotion, Hua Zhang 2018
    rail system, motors, straws
    200cm x 150cm

  • Rationality and Emotion

    Rationality and Emotion, Hua Zhang 2018
    rail system, motors, straws
    200cm x 150cm

  • Rationality and Emotion

    Rationality and Emotion, Hua Zhang 2018
    rail system, motors, straws
    200cm x 150cm

  • Rationality and Emotion

    Rationality and Emotion, Hua Zhang 2018
    rail system, motors, straws
    200cm x 150cm

  • Play

Rationality and Emotion

What is the relationship between rationality and emotion? In this installation, tentacles follow viewers, and once people stop moving, the tentacles start to wobble and scratch. Artificial tentacles therefore become an aggressive creature, a trembling vine. I built a tracking system, representing how rationality and emotion are always embodied. They are meant to be awakened in this installation. 

Info

Info

  • MA Degree

    School

    School of Communication

    Programme

    MA Information Experience Design, 2018

  • What is the relationship between an intuitive choice and a considered decision? Are they conflicting or cooporative? From an initial feeling to a deliberate plan, are our decisions produced through collaboration or compromise?

    My artistic practice employs mechanical systems. From a CNC plotter to a linear rail track, I am interested in using logical machines and glitching movement to explore the relationship between rationality and emotion.

  • Degrees

  • BA Fine Art, China Central Academy of Fine Arts