WhatUshare
"WhatUshare" is a physical computing based project. In digital and Internet age, most of people have social media accounts and we do all the virtual social activities on it. Our behaviors and reactions are monitored by those Internet companies. People's privacy become valuable big data for them. But, do they just get the information we accept to share, or they just grab every information from us without any noticing?
To visualize the process, I made a social media photobooth which has a hidden camera. It will take a snapshot secretly when audiences share their feelings by pressing the buttons on it. Those snapshots will be saved in an online data storage and post on the official WhatUshare social media pages on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Instgram,etc.. Audience will be only given a hashtag to check their photos online. To reveal the process, I don't want to give a judge about it, but provide the visual process for audience to make them think about our online privacy issues.
CONCEPT

Making a machine to visualize how our information be taken and used by social networking company; to provoke audience the feeling to think about online privacy issues.
a Machine?
Yes, it’s a social networking photo booth. Audience will be taken a snapshot by a hidden cam when they press the buttons. AND, those photo will be sent to social media(S) pages such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram,etc. Audience only can check their photos with #WhatUsharing.


Chiehping Chen 陳芥平


"Chiehping Chen is a NYC-based graphic designer, maker, and interaction designer from Taiwan. Before he came to New York, he got his BA, insurance diploma in Tamkang University. He loves music and street dance and was the post-president of the Tamkang Street Dance Club (aka TK Dance Fantasy). When he was in junior high school, he loved outdoor activity and was a boy scout. Those experiences inspire him to embrace himself deeply and shows in his design works.

In 2011, he came to New York to start his new page about design. He studied in Parsons AAS Graphic Design program and graduated in 2014. In June 2014, he was honored to hold Plus-Minus 12 Exhibition at RePop Room in Chelsesa with the other 12 New-media artists, and his work Parallel (http://chiehpingchen.com/parallel.html) was in the show. The works also be collected in the Zero Boundaries Exhibition at TECO in December 2014.

After graduation, he worked at Brooklyn Cloth LLC as a design assistant. The major of his job was to help the design team in graphic design, street fashion, social media and marketing fields. He also designed the identity and the gate of for Crystal Art Park. It will show on Fall 2016.

Now he is studying in Parsons MFA Design and Technology program and explores more in new media solutions in motion graphic, virtual reality, and physical computing fields. He believes design couldn't be limited by a single method and want to embrace more possibilities from 2D world to 3D physical experience for his audience."