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Disturbance
2013
BY
LEE Po-Ting
Disturbance
2013
Computer , speaker , Video , kinetic installation , microphone
2x3x3 m
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Allergic reactions occur when a person's immune system reacts negatively to normally harmless substances in the environment. The specific substance that causes a reaction is called an allergen which is seemed to be harmful. Allergic reactions are distinctive because of excessive activation of certain white blood cells called mast cells and basophils by a type of antibody called Immunoglobulin E (IgE).

In this day and age we live in, through the Internet and various media types, crowds of people are closely linked together. With the help of these media types the crowds seem to connect through the same type of logical thinking. When the thinking is too much alike however, people are likely to be misled creating a widespread reaction which is similar to having an allergic reaction. In the era of the internet and real-time multimedia of communication across space, it is easy for wrong information to trigger mass hysteria and create a butterfly effect which spreads throughout the internet, transforming society to allergy sufferers.

Disturbance is a video and kinetic installation which is interactive by sound. The appearance of the installation is made by Binary. I use binary to produce the organic like skin and print it with 3D Printer. The process is addition, which represents an artificially inorganic framework and virtual media entities. There are multiple small holes above the planet-like sphere; it will sporadically project the images of a human running out of the cave to observe the outside world. The sphere is composed of many separate plates, which have some cracks on it. There are several motor control different plates, through the microphone in the sphere; the volume cause the vibration of the sphere plate, when it reaches a certain volume or frequency, the gaps between the plates become larger, and plenty of panic crowd will run out from the slit, filled almost to the surface of the sphere, and will gradually subside after a while and then return to the slit waiting for the next outbreak...

ARTISTS
4 artworks / 13 exhibition
Installation Art
LEE, Po-Ting, born in 1986, Taipei, has an almost incurable disease known as Thalassemia, which is the inspiration for his creations. LEE’s major at his university was sculpture and worked chiefly on kinetic installation as well as sound work. LEE ...
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LEE Po-Ting, 2013, Installation Art
LEE Po-Ting, 2013, Installation Art
LEE Po-Ting, 2013, Installation Art