🕳️  SKYE XINYI GAO

Hallo! Nǐ Hǎo!   


I am Skye, a Creative technologist, Experience designer, and interdisciplinary Artist. 

I explore the possibility of Interaction Design and Natural Intelligence in the context of Emerging technology. 



Selected Work  
2024AlgaMatrixBio Design    
2024OS 1.1 (Page WIP)Public Installation
2024Wired Wild(der)nessWildlife Speculation
2023Wiggly Wally
Bio-inspired Robotic
2022Oblique ObstructionInteractive Installation
2022BITS OF ASHESComputational Design
2022THE CARESS OF THORNComputational Design
2021EmotionWareWearable System
2022(Int) CocoonOpenCV
2021Sentient ComplexInteractive Installation
2021Media ArchitectureMedia Design
2021The OutsideImmersive Media
2020Remember Me DigitallyMulti-media Exhibition
2019Re-shapingKinetic Installation
2018KaleidoShareInteraction Design
  
 

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Oblique Obstruction: Interactive Public Installation Addressing Power Dynamics through Gaze



Type:
Interactive Public Installation,
Gaze Tracking, Light

Team:
Skye Gao, Randong Yu, Yinghou Wang, Snob.

Affiliation: 
Harvard GSD, 
On-display, 
Harvard Dance Center

Year: 2022
Ob-ob is an interactive installation created for the celebration of International Disability Day at Harvard, collaborated with On-Display and Harvard Dance Center.

The installation used two-way mirrors as a medium combined with light and digital controllers to provoke people's attention to the "different."

Two-way mirrors inherently possess this dynamic of power-play: the pryer and victim, the predator and prey, or the observer and performer. The installation aims to reposition the control the viewer withholds, whether to look or look away. The frustration and confusion when looking inside the cubic two-way mirror provokes the audience to acknowledge the capacity they are innately granted, to reconsider how they might interact and comprehend the object they actively chose to inspect.

“We’ve always been taught not to stare; not to look at someone deeply because it might offend them; that if someone “different” catches our eye we have objectified them. This is the life of the viewer.”



Development



ON DISPLAY is a durational work- a deconstructed art exhibit and commentary on the body as spectacle and society's obsession with body image.  Heidi Latsky’s response to the stigma attached to difference, ON DISPLAY turns a cast of diverse and extreme bodies into a sculpture court where the performers are the sculptures.

ON DISPLAY LOCAL is the series of sculpture courts/installations, ongoing since 2015, that are performed throughout the year. 

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