Levitating

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Levitating reviews a past experience in which I created an artistic series that questioned and redefined my artistic identity.

The artistic series consists of five “visual instruments,” originally built to visualize rhythm and simplify music performance. For the first time, the skills and talents from my engineering background were applied and merged into visual arts, resulting in unexpected hybrids of both aspects. While being surprised, I was driven to think about the boundary between engineering and arts, as well as redefining my position between an engineer and a visual artist. The six months of creation and reflection not only levitated my skills but my vision to a new domain.

Levitating features a special performance video to fully demonstrates the potentials found in these “visual instruments.” Entry to each instrument is also listed.

Entry to Instruments

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Playing Images

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Yaozheng Song

Yaozheng who grew up in Shenzhen, China started his artistic journey as a child in illustration. Now he is a freshman at Design | Media Arts at UCLA with a passion for both mechanical engineering and arts. Utilizing knowledge from both aspects, he is very into kinetic artworks and visualization of abstract concepts.

Yaozheng is also interested in interaction designs of physical products and their visual communication with the users. He is considering pursuing a minor in disability study to better comprehend factors like accessibility and psychology in design.