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Chih Yang speculated a platform talking about the emotional connections between humans and smart objects, and emphasized the loneliness of human beings. It is also a manifesto about the alienated relationships between humans. The project discusses the indescribable connections between humans and objects, especially when people are suffering from extremely painful and harsh emotions, which is impossible to tell anybody else about how one feels. However, people still need to confess to something. In this situation, Chih Yang confesses to a “thing” rather than a person. He displayed three narrative films and related 3D printed objects. The films are about three individuals with different social positions. They all suffered from excruciating emotions and couldn't tell anybody else, as the result, they confessed the emotions into a meaningful object. 

During the research, Chih Yang got many similar feedbacks from interviews. Especially from “normal people”, who seems to have a good life, have a good family and some good friends. However, these make them even harder to tell others about their feelings when faced with something terrible. Nobody will try to understand and empathize people who live a “not so terrible” life.

This is the reason why he created three “normal” characters in the films. He wanted to show how despair and struggling they are. How alienated they are from their friends, families and the society. What they feel and experience. These are happening in our real life. He speculated all the objects could understand and record humans’ behaviors and emotions. Therefore, the surfaces of the objects are distorted after they recorded more and more behaviors and emotions. The objects made the negative emotions and connections between humans and objects tangible, and became the symbols of the indescribable, hidden parts of humans. In the show, the objects were connected to the projectors to project the films on the wall, which made the whole installation became the “emotional connection” itself. The films explained the antecedent, and the objects themselves became the result of their owners. In this project, Chih Yang extended his personal experience to make an echo to the audience. During the research process, he collected 60 plus stories, organized both symbols and visual languages into scenarios. Based on EEG data, which was from the researchers at Imperial College, Chih Yang visualized different negative emotions into patterns. EEG is an equipment which record our brain waves; different emotions cause different brainwaves. The patterns accumulated in the films and surfaces of the objects are closely related to the situation of the person.

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