Owen Wang

Owen is a BA Performance Studies student with a minor in Dance. With a deep interest in dance history and embodied gesture, he embraces a practice he calls a “scrambled stew pot”—where contradiction, chaos, and cross-genre experimentation aren’t obstacles, but materials. Comprehending movement as a shared language across genres—a response to shifting social dynamics and historical contexts, his practice spans film, dance, photography, and emerging digital forms, currently focusing on interactive media art that invites participation and blurs boundaries between audience and performer. Always questioning and expanding, Owen is still on the journey of discovering whether he is—or wants to become—an artist.

Title of Capstone Project

Ephemera

Description of Capstone Project

Ephemera, created using TouchDesigner, is an interactive digital installation that captures and exchanges traces of movement from past to present. Its visual elements are composed of particles generated from pre-recorded video documentation of the artist’s own choreography. The work explores how digital space can retain the residue of physical expression, enabling present movements to recall, reconstruct, or distort the recorded repertoire. Rather than defining the ontology of performance, Ephemera seeks to raise questions—inviting reflection on memory, disappearance of movements, and digital mediation. It grants the interactor both spectatorship and performerhood, blurring the boundary between viewing and doing, and exposing the tensions between representation and reproduction in performance.

What Inspired Your Project?

Inspired by all the people who move, who pose, and who perform their lives.