INSTALLATION / VIDEO
交互装置案例 Interactive Installation Case 入海前 Echoes at the Estuary
《入海前》以长江入海前的影像记忆为视觉基础，将现场采集的长江边照片、光源装置与空间物件组织为一场关于时间沉积的视觉实验。
江水回望集体记忆
The River Looks Back
《入海前》以长江入海前的影像记忆为视觉基础，将现场采集的长江边照片、光源装置与空间物件组织为一场关于时间沉积的视觉实验。作品通过多张影像的并置、重叠与模糊显影，使江岸、人物、工业景观与日常片段不再只是单一照片中的记录，而成为一组被重新编码的记忆切片。观众在观看时，会面对如档案般排列的图像矩阵，也会感受到江水、光影与旧影之间的互相渗透。作品借“入海前”的最后回眸，呈现长江集体记忆在混沌中叠加、回返与再度浮现的过程。
Echoes at the Estuary takes the visual memory of the Yangtze River before it reaches the sea as its point of departure. Using photographs collected along the river, light-based elements, and spatial objects, the work forms a visual experiment on the sedimentation of time. Through the juxtaposition, overlap, and blurred emergence of multiple images, riverbanks, figures, industrial landscapes, and fragments of daily life are no longer treated as isolated records, but as re-encoded pieces of memory. As viewers encounter the archive-like image matrix, they also sense the interweaving of water, light, and old shadows. In the river’s final glance before entering the sea, collective memory returns, overlaps, and slowly appears again.
INTERACTION
凝视唤醒江声旧影
Presence Awakens the River
作品借助计算机视觉技术，将观众的靠近、停留与观看行为转化为触发光源的机制。当观众进入装置前方区域，系统识别其身体介入，并使被折叠的影像与光线关系发生变化。随着汽笛声响起，长江边采集的照片在明暗之间被重新点亮，涛声、历史旧影与个人凝视在同一时刻被唤醒。观众不需要复杂操作，只需靠近、注视或停留，便能参与到记忆显影的过程之中。互动由此不只是技术反馈，而成为一种观看关系的建立：当人们注视同一条河流时，也在影像与光中看见彼此。
Through computer vision, the work translates the viewer’s approach, pause, and act of looking into a mechanism that activates light. When viewers enter the area in front of the installation, the system recognizes their bodily presence and alters the relationship between folded images and illumination. As the sound of a ship horn emerges, photographs collected along the Yangtze River are lit again between brightness and darkness, awakening waves, historical traces, and individual gazes at the same moment. Viewers do not need to perform complex actions; by simply approaching, looking, or staying, they take part in the process of memory becoming visible. Interaction is therefore not only a technical response, but a relation of seeing: when we look at the same river, we may also begin to see one another.
SYSTEM
技术退后记忆显影
Technology Recedes, Memory Emerges
《入海前》的核心并不在于强调计算机视觉或光源控制本身，而在于借助技术让被时间覆盖的河流记忆重新显影。照片、光线、汽笛与空间中的网状结构共同构成一种低声的复调：它们既指向长江边真实采集的现场，也指向人们在河流经验中共享却难以言说的情感。技术被安置在观看背后，使光像潮水一样在图像之间流动，使记忆在清晰与模糊之间不断转换。作品在个人经验与集体记忆、现实影像与感知回声之间建立连接，使空间成为一处关于江水、时间与彼此相遇的诗性现场。
The focus of Echoes at the Estuary is not to foreground computer vision or light control, but to use technology to bring river memory, long covered by time, back into view. Photographs, light, the sound of a ship horn, and net-like spatial structures form a quiet polyphony. They refer both to real sites along the Yangtze River and to the shared yet often unspoken emotions carried by river experience. Technology remains behind the act of viewing, allowing light to move between images like the tide and memory to shift continuously between clarity and blur. Between personal experience and collective memory, real images and sensory echoes, the work turns the space into a poetic site of river, time, and encounter.