You walk into a remote lake at night and you sense that you are violating the lake environment when you stop hearing its living noises. If you stay there for a certain amount of time, without disturbing them, they start to make their living noises again as if they are trying to say, "we understand that you are not here to harm us, we welcome you."

I started questioning more and more about the benefits of human intervention on nature. While I was searching for some referential points for my project, I encountered the term "Animating Principle of Life" mirrors mine. The incomprehensible laws of nature concern the physical and spiritual metamorphosis of a body, whether it is human, animal, or plant. These thoughts lead me to create the piece called "Interference". Although this piece is constructed based on my personal understanding and interpretations, this body of work is about awareness.

I try to encapsulate both personal experience and the theoretical aspect of extinction related issues without creating a hierarchy between the two of them.

Interference installed at San Jose state University in spring 2004 and I used many different devices and programs. Video clips below will give you a simple demonstration of how I connect between secenes with a motion sensor input. (a scene with an insect and one without) Each clips were recompiled with lots of photoshop work and were edited in FinalCut Pro. I have carefully selected about 20 different insect footage from MicroCosmos: a film by Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou.

* First, create transition clip that invloves the end of previous and the beginning of next clip. Example #1.

* The next step is when one of sensors are triggered, the insect in the scene disappears and background remins.

* When there is no movement for at least 3 sec, the insect will fade in slowly to the the ground once it disappeared from. Exsample #2

* If there is no interuption (no motion sensor was detacted), the footage should play seamlessly. I had to make sure that Example #1 and Example #2 end at the exactly the same frame, so that I know where I can start creating transition to the next clip. Example #3

* Repeating this process for 20 times.

These video clips are imported to Macromedia Diector and controlled by serial port input using Stemp.
Here is the screen shot. Stemp is controlling and recieving two elements: one from sensor and one form mouse.

installation detail images: (all the rocks and leaves are made out of newspapers and recycling papers of grocery bags) interference was also shown at the Phantom gallery as well.