Cyber Blossom 1
"Cyber Blossom 1" is a project that explores how to deconstruct the definiton of gender and eliminate gender binary in a future cyber world.
This project is inspired by Donna Haraway's "A Cyborg Manifesto." While the future in which everyone becomes a cyborg is still distant, the metaverse is already within our grasp. The fluidity of identity and the dismantling of traditional boundaries within the metaverse offer tremendous possibilities for gender deconstruction. Inspired by this, I envision creating a metaverse where everyone has their cyber avatar as a cyber plant. In this world, each person corresponds to a customized cyber plant, whose form is unrelated to their gender and solely reflects their unique personalities and characteristics.
With this concept in mind, I developed cyber plant avatars for several friends. Using TouchDesigner, I crafted 3D plant models in real-time and achieved dynamic rendering. Additionally, the audience can engage with the cyber plant avatars interactively through a Kinect camera, witnessing the plants move in response to their actions, as if the plants are their cyber reflections.