Abstract
In 1962, Kuhn proposed the “Paradigm Shift”. This term used to describe the changes in basic scientific concepts and experimental practices in science. Such changes also affect the development of scientific research. The new technologies and information are constantly changing and dissemination in the era. In this paper, we propose the “Cross-Media IoT System”, which takes IoT technology and cloud server as the core. In this system, we used mobile phones, servers, social media, installation arts, as the media and objects of IoT to transmission data by different kinds of sensors. When data is transformed in different media, it will be deconstructed and recombined, also role of data(input/output) will be changing, and data may change from text to images, from images to sounds, and even from digital to analog forms and data will be to control installation art, we call this phenomenon “Data Liquidity”. This is due to the advancement of digital technology, which allows data to be the change in liquidity state. We call this is “Data Paradigm Shift”.
In Cross-Media IoT System is based on the IoT environment, and we develop the Cross-Media Control System and embed them in each interactive installation. For different artworks, we design different Mobile APPs. When users take the Mobile APP to participate in different interactive installation art in the space, the data through Mobile APP, use the Cross-Media Control System to transfer into artworks and control that to interact. The interaction of results will be generated data in liquidized through IoT to transfer, once again controlling another installation art. Data sculpture is transferred between different media and liquefied to form the “Data Paradigm Shift”. This system has been applied in “Tsing Hua Effects 2019: Cross-Media Technology and Art Festival” of National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. We have created “Morse Code” and” Cross-Media Representor” that are artworks in the art festival, we cited as an example to illustrate the operation of our system and the concept of “Data Paradigm Shift”.
In the past, most of the artworks are participated and appreciated individually. In our system, the data can cross different media among different interactive artworks by formation-liquidity, In the future, our system is not only be applied to outdoor interactive artworks but also the education fields such as “mobile learning”.