This is a public art project that uses Syntrend building's media facade to transform any person into an astronaut. The Cosmos Walker Project was launched in September, 2016. Here is the project website:

http://www.syntrend.com.tw/cosmoswalker/Web/intro.php

The visitors can upload their face photo via the WebGL interface to the project server. After receiving noticing emails, the visitors can go to the Syntrend building and watch themselves become an enormous astronaut that floating on the building's media façade.

Concept

“In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.”                      Andy Warhol

Because of the progress of technology, the expansion of the cities increases rapidly. This exponential growth of our physical environment compresses our spiritual existence and makes us feel trivial. Therefore, through the new media public art project: The Cosmos Walker, All the citizens in Taipei can upload their images through the Internet to Syntrend's giant media façade. They can transform themselves into astronauts that floating and dancing in the cosmos.

I hope that thru such an imaginative interaction, the existence of the citizens can be re-balanced with the expansion of the metropolis.

星空行者照片上傳網頁介面

星空行者太空人姿勢調整介面

Credit

Concept, Coding, Project Management: Hsin-Chien Huang
3D Programming: Shawn Chen
Design: Zueia Lu