Lui pursues responsive media in the physical world. His work explores intersections between media technology and architecture to produce programmed and interactive spaces acting at the scale of the participant's body. His formal training is in architecture, he also does web design, DJing and music production. Born and raised in Canada, he has lived and worked in Toronto, New York City, and Los Angeles.
This project attempts to merge and transmute media art and architecture,
to create a hybrid form of mediated space which proposes new and atypical ways of interfacing between people and space. The intention is to create
a physical and spatial work in which the participant’s body is utilized in position and motion, and perceptually operates through more than one sense. A dynamic and communicative bond between the participant and the work is established, blurring the distinction between that which is static and that which is alive.
Untitled presents a cloud of low-hanging fiber-optic filaments that create
a volumetric mass for participants to directly engage in by occupying and moving through it. The lit endpoints of the filaments are locally activated by people’s positions in the cloud. Their physical movement through the space creates trails of light, leaving a memory of their presence. The configuration of light points in Untitled constitutes a kind of mediated “skin”, but unlike most applications of this concept, this skin takes on volumetric dimensions that make direct contact with the body.
