CHEN Mei-Tsen
Drifting Life
interactive video, 2021 - screenshots
It describes the feeling of wandering, of strangeness. Designed by Unity, this world invites viewers to immerse in the movements of Jellyfish and to be lost in gravity and orientation. Entering as a first person viewpoint by diver’s bubbles, viewers explore and test out where the exit - liquid doors might be located. Inside these interactive spaces, viewers will find pop-up windows as ‘Iconography’ and ‘Ecosystem’ where artists' inspirations of Jellyfish represented in the history of art, and scientific researches showed how we are intimately connected with these living creatures in the marine ecosystem. Meditating and learning Jellyfish stories through a transdisciplinary way.