LO 09: Superfeel at Cinekid Festival 2014 ,  Molmol Kuo

SuperFeel from Molmol on Vimeo.

Molmol Kuo is a Taiwanese artist and educator based in Brooklyn, NY and a partner at YesYesNo LLC. Her background in documentary and experimental film, reflects in many of her interactive technology works which has strong sense of narrative potential. Her strength lies in electronic research and development, rather than the software. She uses rapid prototyping as a tool for storytelling. Molmol works with the mentor program at the Tisch School of the Arts for recent New York University graduates who are international students and in their early careers as artists. Apart from all of this, she volunteers for the Sanctuary for Families in New York to advocate for victims of violence and sex trafficking, and she works with survivors of gender-based violence to rebuild their lives beyond trauma.

SuperFeel is a project that utilizes interactive installation and wearable sensor technology. This project takes small forces from the hands of participants and scales them up, creating a stage where air, wind, fog, vibration can affect a crowd. The wearable device responds to the user’s muscle and body gestures to make the installation playable. At the same time installation also consists of flying objects to represent the forces generated in response to the sensory inputs and make the user suggestively feel the superpower.