Alison Chung-Yan

Son Image

Alison Chung-Yan, 2006

Son Image is an interactive sound and video installation in which the many layers of its composition are revealed through audience interaction.

Controlled by viewers entering, exiting and moving within the gallery space, video and sound fragments emphasize similar rhythms found within nature and the environment. From the changing seasons to the rotation of the planets, Son Image serves as a metaphor for our connection to the larger rhythms of the Universe. It is an affirmation of the capacity for our presence and actions to shape our existence and the construction of its meaning.

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Son Image
Quicktime documentation
2m14s (4.9mb 320x240)

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Transformation

Alison Chung-Yan, 2006, 2003

Transformation is a kaleidoscopic video & sound portrait of city's growth, transformation and renewal from its natural & rural heritage through to its industrial & high-tech present.

The changing city is juxtaposed against the passage from day to night. All footage is taken from west-Ottawa and the surrounding area.

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Transformation
Quicktime video
3m39s (7.6mb 320x240)

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Pause ... Perchance to Hear

Alison Chung-Yan, 2004

Pause ... Perchance to Hear is an electroacoustic expression of the intangible pleas of a ravaged environment - cries which often go unheard beneath the incessant din of human activity.

Much is lost when we fail to stop and listen.



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Pause ... Perchance to Hear

Surveillance

Alison Chung-Yan, 2004

Surveillance is a net art installation which explores the phenomenon of webcam surveillance on the Internet and its capacity to conjoin spaces near and far - physical and virtual - public and private. Housed within a single webpage, 15 smaller windows are gradually assembled security-camera style into a 5x3 matrix offering a near real-time glimpse of webcams situated around the world.

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Surveillance
Launch online exhibit

The Moment - Themes & Underscore

Alison Chung-Yan, 2004

The Moment is a compilation of various film score cues composed to date.







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The Moment

Imprint

Alison Chung-Yan, 2004

Imprint explores notions of identity, memory and the traces we leave behind.

What does legacy mean in the context of a disposable society for which impermanence is the only constant?

Imprint
Launch online exhibit

The Connections Project

Alison Chung-Yan, 2002

The Connections Project is an interactive sound-art motion-graphics piece inspired by the underlying rhythms of the Universe.

From the circadian rhythms of the human body and the symbiotic pulses of the ecosystem ... to the inorganic hums of our technological creations and the interplanetary motions of the stars ...

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The Connections Project
Launch online exhibit

Lifelines

Alison Chung-Yan, 2001

Lifelines is a moment of transition - in breaking away from the abusive confines of one life to the promise but uncertainty of a new one.

Sometimes the most important lifeline is the one we extend to ourselves.

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Lifelines
Quicktime video
1m18s (3mb 320x240)

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