CORROSION 人间蒸发

如果有一天你发现自己成了幽灵，你会作何感想？当人们看不见你，且你也无法被镜头捕捉到时，你是否会开始质疑自己的存在？互动装置《CORROSION》（意为人间蒸发）在影像中实现这小说般的情节。装置系统随机选中一位观察屏幕的观众，逐渐地把他的身影变成透明，与背景融为一体；而对其他观众毫无影响。
作品借由人的身形在虚拟影像中的消失探讨媒体对人自身存在感知的影响，进而反思人与自我、以及人与系统的关系。这个时代，人在社交网络上的形象往往被等同于人本身。人一直把媒介当作“延伸感知”的工具，实则不知觉地把媒介内化成了感知的一部份，使得媒介有了反过来影响人的可能。比如，即使人体的消失只存在于虚拟影像中，这也使得“被消失“的观众产生不悦的情绪。

人与系统：被消失并没有什么特别的理由。这个系统随机挑选”受害者“，抹消他的存在。这个装置内运行着的系统仿佛是一个微型的赛博朋克的反乌托邦世界，而观众便暂居这个世界的居民。我们观察到的是一个被赋予权利的系统正任性地对待其系统下的个体。
人与自我：要观察到”被消失“的过程，观众需要保持面对镜头，并且忍受自己是唯一一人在影像里变透明的事实。任何扭头或远离的举动都会中断这个消失的过程。即”要注意到自己正在消失才能完全消失“。

“How will one feel if he is erased by the system, while others are not?” This interactive installation examines how people feel when witnessing their disappearance in digital media, at the age when images on social networks is to a large content considered as equivalent to one’s existence in real life. The installation creates a vivid mirror with the projection and a web camera. When people start to observe themselves in the projection, one of them is randomly chosen to be the victim. His figure begins to fade, and eventually dissolves into the background, as if he were never there. Once the victim turns his head away from the camera or leaves the playground, the system resumes to its normal state—a mirror, and patiently awaits for the next victim.

By playing tricks on the participants’ reflection in the digital media, the artwork transforms the space into a cyberpunk environment, initiating a discussion about one’s perception of digital media, relationship with community and agency under system surveillance. It baffles participants with a paradoxical fact that one has to endure his dissolution in order to witness the whole process of disappearance. In this way, digital media is entitled to the ability to influence one’s perception of existence in reality. When it happens to one participant among a group of them, one’s suffer is probably not even noticed by others. Here it visualizes the feeling of estrangement caused by physical co-existence without spiritual connection. In addition, it is even worse to think what if a system’s power, in this case its caprice to erases anyone existence, is extended to the physical reality.