Flow and Shield

Flow and Shield is an interactive installation that explores themes of viruses and immunity, where desire is understood as a force that spreads, transforms, and mutates across bodies, media environments, and collective imagination.

Visitors physically interact with a rotating wooden structure, pushing and pulling it with their bodies to generate virus-like digital forms in real time. The structure also functions as a system of defence and release: participants can either protect their desire-objects by controlling the structure, or let them re-enter the field of contagion.

The projected entities on the floor recognise multiple participants at once. The most dominant entity gradually absorbs and transforms the others through a process of viral assimilation; weaker entities are drawn into its influence and partially integrated. At times a single dominant entity remains on the surface, shaped by continuous competition and adaptation within the system.

When a participant is detected by the camera, corresponding sounds are triggered, creating a responsive environment where movement, image, sound, and bodily interaction continuously affect one another.