Living Wonderland

Video 2'06"

Keywords: Living; Wonderland; CreativeCoding; Stereoscopic; COVID-19.

"Living Wonderland" is a piece trying to see through our inner vision as an abstract expression during the time in quarantine with creative coding. “Living Wonderland” not only metaphorically reveals our lust of craving for freedom but also illustrates the kindness embedded in everyone during this COVID-19 epidemic/quarantine period. No matter it represents the lust or the kindness of every human being, that Wonderland deep in everyone's awareness is just like a "living thing" eager to break through the "frame" of any pre(post)-set constraints, illness, and boundary to look for hope. However, we all know that keeping distance at the time will benefit the entire world. Our inner nature is drastically swinging between the furious thoughts (fears) and the peaceful mind, just like the heartbeat, just like this living wonderland.

TPractically, the entire piece is created by the scripts of code as generative art based on swarm behavior intelligence (creative coding) in Processing with related library, mainly the Camera3D for the stereoscopic effects. Therefore, this short 2-minute film piece can be viewed with a pair of 3D glasses to have the stereoscopic effect, but still enjoy the colorful vision without it. The background music is generated with Cables.gl (web-based visual coding tool) and Ableton Live.