Carousel #2

2021, loop webpage
Link to work｜https://chunyichang.com/yirihorsefarm/carousel.html

No one on the seats; no hilarious ringing to set off; no end of the constant movement, just like a planet revolving according to its own internal law of time. The work silently transforms the three-and-a-half-minute circling into eternity.

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This work originates from the "YIRI's Horse Fram" project—a care space for a herd of horses is created both online and offline through the generation and translation of equine semantics and imagery. The exhibition is composed of various works centered around horses, forming a racetrack co-constructed by both online and offline venues. The online interface presents various horses drawn in vector graphics format through an interactive, responsive web page. In the physical exhibition space, text, objects, sound, and video installations transform these vector horses from the digital world into different forms. The horse images in the racetrack are inspired by rocking horses and carousel horses from the collection of the Taiwan Toy Museum. The real-world toy horses are converted into SVG vector graphics commonly found in today’s online interfaces, and through programming languages, they become "vector horses" with varied shapes and movements on the interactive, responsive webpage. The constantly swaying rocking horses, the spinning carousel horses, and the racing horses—these vector horses, generated and animated by different codes and commands—seem to maintain a distinct digital identity while simultaneously following their own inherent motions, residing eternally within the windows of web browsers in a perpetual, digital realm.

Online Horse Farm
chunyichang.com/yirihorsefarm

Offline Horse Farm
Date | 2021.12.23—2022.01.23
Venue | YIRI ARTS
Organizer: YIRI ARTS
Sponsor: Department of Cultural Affairs, Taipei City Government
Webpage Consultant: Domoidea Design, Sense Info
Sound Effect: Yannick Dauby
Special Thanks: Taiwan Toy Museum, Department of Fine Arts and Yo-Chang Art Museum of NTUA

"YIRI's Horse Farm" Exhibition documentation video