Dating Pool
2017
Screen, computer, code
Dating Pool is a project inspired by my own experiences with dating. It reflects the frustration many people feel about finding the right partner. The piece of screen-based art is a meditation on the experience of being gay and lonely. It's like looking at a swimming pool from a tall building, with "people" represented as "dots" in the pool, symbolizing the dating scene. When two dots meet, they can either form a couple if they match or head in opposite directions if they don't. I liken making computer simulations to drawing caricatures, where I extract interesting features from reality and exaggerate them.