Artist Shiyun Deng was Enter’s first online resident, in August 2021. Deng worked closely with one of Enter’s developers, Marianne Noordzij. The work was called It Is Finally Possible to Be Here With You 24/7. Deng’s project responded to the situation of online video calling embedded in everyday life due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In her work, she asks: how does video calling change the perception of being present? What emotions does it bring about in the body?
Enter’s developer Marianne Noordzij programmed an ongoing 24-hour stream in Deng’s ‘room’. In Deng’s virtual world, the audience observes Deng from all sorts of different places - at home, cycling through a tunnel, working out in a gym. While being there, Shiyun chats with the visitor about the notion of being able to always be online from anywhere.
Shiyun Deng a.k.a. DJ USB (* 1994 CN) is an artist, graphic designer and DJ who considers her practice as interfacing through various agencies. That often leads her to digital/phonetic object and printed matter.
Marianne Noordzij is an artist, designer and web-developer working in her own pace to create surfaces and spaces which are often an antidote to capitalist micro- and megastructures. See also other instagram.
Marianne Noordzij