Corner@corner 

Zhiping Bian
Robot interactive installation,xbox kinect
Variable

2020

Intro

Due the influence of the Covid-19 epidemic, maintaining hygiene and cleanliness at home has become extremely important. The most easily overlooked space during cleaning is the corner, so it was decided to create an extra extended holographic space in the corner.


In my home, the sweeping robot plays a very important role. The daily cleaning work is very pleasant for me, so does the newly created virtual space also need a sweeping robot to work?


The detector captures the viewer's position and calculates the view angle in real time. The virtual corner is inaccessible to human limbs, but it is possible to observe a human substitute-a robot to work with the change of perspective. Humans can re-observe the machine in a higher dimension and examine the work of the machine, but they cannot touch its field of work, whether it reflects the position of human beings in society.

Background

Under the circumstance of spatial confinement, technology becomes the ground upon which we stand. May it be by widening our social and work spaces, may it be by offering a temporary escape from current constraints, technology in this scenario extends boundaries, sites and senses beyond a body’s reach - but not without its toll on our privacy and daily routine. What are the new spaces that arise within our own rooms in this scenario?


How can we extend and augment space within such constraints? Within the sharp corners of our own four walls, What can be made?