Title: Love Interactive Version 1.0 : Love in the Universe.
Year: 2010
Artist: Yeohyun Ahn
Media: Interactive Media

Description:
The universe is filled with love even we couldn’t detect it because it is invisible and untouchable physically. Through this work, I visualized a being of the love in the universe and made interaction to feel with audience together. I symbolized the red spots as the visual elements to construct a form of the love graphically from a void and dark space to a meaningful space. It also represents the blood for the heart as one of human organ. At the beginning it shows the process how the red spots are created, duplicated, integrated with the shape of a visual icon,’♥,’ as a visual icon for the heart. The white spots,constructing the shape of ‘♥,’ is revealed after the red spots are sufficiently accumulated in the space because I intend that the red spots nourishes the heart to emerge from the empty space. Gradually, two distinguished visual elements, the red spots and the white spots, are numerously overlapped and integrated to visualize the being of the love in the universe. It makes loop every 90 second without any interruption. Audiences can interact with the space trough touching the computer screen. They can hear a heat beat sound if they touch and hold their hands on the screen. Whenever they click the screen, they can create a new animation. Every animation is not the same, but it is unique based on the random positions for the red and white spots.

Web Version for Love Interactive Version 1.0

Technical References:
Binary Tree Algorithm
Geomerative Library and Caligraft(http://www.caligraft.com,) by Richard Marxer
Minim, Audio Library in Processing
Processing, by Casey Reas and Ben Fry
Font: Arial

Note:
Love’s Graphic Version 1.0 is invited to the exhibition, Universal Love, Chicago in 2010, as digital print format.