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Tiange Hou

During 2020–2022 at ITP, I created a series of interactive works exploring what happens at the boundary between biological and artificial.

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                          FALSAC lives in an environment ↗
                          (2022)A fantasized living system modeled after the glass frog. It’s transparent. FALSAC (Fantasized Artificial Living System Alike Centrolenidae) navigates competing survival pressures. 

                  Unity · C# · Installation

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                           Talking to the birds ↗
                           (2021)                       A 3D universe of 252 bird family planets, each sized by the number of species. To reach a bird, you must learn its taxonomy and speak its Latin name to a communication officer. The bird responds in its own language.
                  
                   A-Frame · Web Speech API · JavaScript


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                           Love is on the cloud ↗
                           (2022)                       A platformer set on the cloud. You seek a hidden narrative about a human and her synthetic lover. You fall, by the end.
                   
                   Unreal Engine
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                           MILA ↗
                           (2021)                       A branching narrative about a phantom thief with a chip in her right hand and the police officer who is supposed to catch her. 

                   HTML · CSS · JavaScript· Ergodic Literature


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                           Protein tattoo ↗
                           (2021)A protein tattoo. Motor proteins projected in color onto skin.
                   
                   3D · Maya

                           seed
                           Flower ↗
                           (2020)Press too hard, it looks sad.
                        Physical Computing · Arduino

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