MASKS is a wearable device which translates the body's physiological changes into a tangible medium. Through projections on the mask, the body, and the space, MASKS exaggerates the silent dialogue between human life and the built environment.

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Beyond the traditional understanding in art history and media archaeology, where a screen serves as either a physical filter that defines the boundary of the inside and the outside, or as a surface holding digital moving images, MASKS is a responsive instrument that visualizes flow patterns from a projector above one’s head onto a translucent veil in front of one’s mouth and the surrounding surfaces, blending light, pulse and breath with the human form and space.

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One wears the screen while ascending and descending steps creating an improvised performance of one's pulse and breath reacting to the effort expelled from vertical movement. These silent biological signals - being sensed, visualized, and projected- become as loud, if not louder, than verbal communication forcing us to take notice of the often ignored sensations and the muted impact that the environment has on our bodies.

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