Circling

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

The running horse photographed by Edward Muybridge is nailed to a stake, which renders its dynamic gallop stagnant again. It transforms into a wooden horse going in circles on the webpage. In the switch of roles, the secret words about “dynamics and speed” are exchanged.

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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.

"YIRI's Horse Farm" Exhibition documentation video