“TAP”
The audience is part of the ritual, they are filming on their phones as the building is frantically scrolling through the feed …
Swipe, swipe, swipe. The feed is chaos, the avatars walk out to join the audience to - look at their phones in the real world.
Anticipating the scale of people compared to the projection and the behaviour of the audience, the mapping show expands beyond the surface of the building.
I used my own performance captures with unreal engine for the avatars as well as Cinema 4d with octane render. No generative ai used.
This project won the bronze award at the Shining Shanghai Light Festival in 2025.
Location: Shenyuli Building, Shanghai, China
Date: September 2025
Produced for: Shining Shanghai Festival
Animation: John Tettenborn
Music: Kourtney Lara Ross
