Unreadable news
Interactive Installation, Machine Learning, Projection mapping
Collaborated with Chengchao Zhu
Unreadable News is an Interactive art installation with an exclusive reading environment of four of the most controversial News from past 20 years.
Our Concept
Unreadable news is a project which try to digging a hole about media news. Fake news manipulating people in a invisible way. Where do people receive news? and how does people distinguish if the news they receive is true or fake? what makes a news reliable? What makes people believe in what they saw is something really happened around them?
Design Research
We have selected four of the most controversial news in past 20 years reflecting different social problems
Brock Turning and Brian Banks Rape Case.
Readers will receive very positive message about Brock Turning : “Stanford Student” “white kid” “Olympic Potential” “Straight A” .
Negative info about Brian Banks: “Ruined her Life” “Drag like a monster” “She was so scared”
All these biased highlights will let readers has a prejudgement about these two people.
Basra Palestine war Photoshop Case.
The photograph, taken in the earliest days of the Iraq invasion, shows a British soldier warning a group of Iraqi civilians to take cover from nearby fire.
The published photo is a composite of two images taken seconds apart.
Monica Lewinsky and Clinton scandal.
Isn’t it Clinton’s problem? How can president make mistake? It must be Lewinsky! Look at Hillary’s crying face! Lewinsky has ruined a family!
O.J Simpson Case.
In June of 1994, in the midst of OJ Simpson’s murder trial, both TIME magazine and Newsweek featured Simpson’s mugshot on their covers.
Technical Research
Exhibition and Show
NYC Media Lab 2017 : Horror News Fake Show
NYC Media Lab 2018 : Parsons School of Art Show
ITP Spring Show 2018 : New York University, Tisch School of Art.
Press
Readers reading our News Paper at NYC Media Lab 2017 .