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CHAOSPHERE

Interactive installation for NYC Open Data Week 2024



Collaborators: Angel Mai
Sharell Bryant
Yitong Chen
My Role - Video design, production & Projection mapping
- Data analysis
- Fabrication
- Design, electrical & network engineering





Chaosphere is an interactive installation that looks at yearly trends in cooking gas usage in New York City. Through interacting with the inflatable burners on a stove, participants will look at monthly gas usage as well as brief video compilations of the related triumph, controversy, and hardship experienced by the human race in recent years. The piece uses cooking as a starting point to examine the tension between the aftermath of a chaotic world and the essence of living, fertility, and community.


This piece was part of the Data Through Design 2024 Exhibition presented by BRIC, Brooklyn, New York.



Photograph by Sebasitian Bach
BRIC, Brooklyn, NY - organized by DxD


Each burner is an inflatable object. When the stove knob is turned, the corresponding burner will inflate to the height of the amount of gas used in that month per building. Each knob has 12 months. As the knob goes through the months, the burner will expand and shrink, representing data in a physical form. A projector projects the actual number of data onto the inflatable. The projection also includes a compilation of major news events that happened during the specific year.