Visitor standing under a cascade of white Chinese characters, Type-Waterfall

Type-Waterfall

- 2017

Project Type | Installation
Client | Arphic Technology
Location | Shanghai

Credits :
Director | Ke Jyun Wu, Ting-An Ho
CD | Ting-An Ho, Ke Jyun Wu
Visual Script | Ke Jyun Wu
Generative Visual | Ke Jyun Wu
Interaction System | Ke Jyun Wu
3D Artist | Stewart Chien
Space Arrangements | Ta Chung Liu
Acting Model | Val Chen
Project Manager | Ting-An Ho
Production House | Studio 411

An interactive installation for Arphic Technology, exhibited in Shanghai. Directed by Ting-An Ho.

The concept: a waterfall made of Chinese typography. Characters cascade down the screen like water. When visitors interact, the flow responds. Characters scatter, regroup, change speed. The installation turns text into a physical material, something with weight and movement that you can push around.

It's one of the earlier pieces in my career, and looking back, the impulse is familiar: take something people see every day (text) and make it behave like something else entirely (water). The tools were simpler then, but the instinct was already there.

Chinese characters flowing down like water in Type-Waterfall
Three frames of Chinese characters dissolving into falling streams
Visitor spreading his arms in front of the Type-Waterfall projection in Shanghai
Visitors watching characters cascade down the wall, Type-Waterfall
Visitor walking past a glowing waterfall of Chinese type, Type-Waterfall
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