Charlie KWONG

PhD Researcher in Arts, Learning Design, and Special Education

The Message Index

 

Meaningful moments matter most of all,

make each conversation count.

Period: 2023 Jan – Aug

Position held: Lead Artist-Researcher

Lay Summary:

The Message Index is a digital living inquiry, explored through web interactions, VR spaces, and message audio storytelling. Drawing from my own experiences of displacement, UX design, educational media, and creative technology to gather and reshape personal stories. In this collaborative, transmedia environment, everyday messages are embedded within immersive virtual space to co-create moments of transition and belonging.

This practice is both inquiry and art, as well as an invitation to linger with the ups and downs of migration and to reflect on how ordinary digital audio messages shape our sense of self and home .

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LATEST PROJECT

Digital Choi Hung focused on organizing themes from qualitative data analysis, and I adopted a combination of narrative techniques and communication methods. These included images, text, audiovisual media, environmental sounds, computer interactions, and game design elements. These varied approaches were used to address the challenges of fragmented and nonlinear data, it helps to provide context through audiovisual files. By developing reflexive practice and exploring poetic inquiry as methodology, the project addressed to reconnect the fragmented and nonlinear data. This practice-based research provides insights into addressing the difficulties of using transmedia storytelling as a methodology, and creative solutions that balance artistic expression with thorough data analysis.