2023

Yijie (Katherine) Luo

Hello! I'm Yijie Luo (Katherine), a graphic media designer who is always passionate to explore social and cultural topics. With an avant-garde aesthetic and keen insights, I am open to working on possibilities in all forms of art and specialise in editorial design and 3D art.

Wormhole Bot

This interactive project is about a bot for healing and communicative purposes. The bot will listen to the audience’s problems and extract the words the person types into it and mess with it, creating a new bot-culture-like sentence, extracted from their bad emotions. And then it will ask some questions that seem weird but it follows the psychological counselling and meditation steps to process the person’s emotions. At the end it will produce the person’s emotion scan visualisation and print it.
(goal: to provide a healing process; to communicate; to entertain
audience: people who spend a lot of time online, who find AI culture interesting, who deliberately talk to Siri, who are introverted and shy, but still have the aspiration to connect to others, and want to express their troubles and emotions. People with worries; people who tend to internalise their emotions; people who feel safe to talk to a machine; people who are niche art lovers and interested in weirdcore culture.
references: psychological counselling language, CBT, meditation methodology).

The interactive process of Wormhole Bot
Sample poster outcome from the first process of Wormhole Bot
Sample poster outcome from the first process of Wormhole Bot
Sample visual outcome from the second process of Wormhole Bot
Sample visual outcome from the second process of Wormhole Bot
Sample visual outcome from the second process of Wormhole Bot
Sample visual outcome from the second process of Wormhole Bot
Assumed exhibition scene
Assumed exhibition scene

Music Narration

This project is about studying the narration of traditional music albums and adapting it to digital music playlists, telling a story through visual transformation and expressing my point of view on music in the contemporary media age, in the form of a book. The story I decided to tell is about the journey of NASA’s Voyager 1 into space, and it is narrated chronologically with the 12 songs included. My aim is to describe the music album’s situation nowadays, and express my belief that among the massive works on the internet, true good music has the ability to tell stories and remain unforgotten in people’s minds.
I think the Internet is like the universe, there are infinite spaces and information, and they both have a lot of unknown things for humans to explore. Sometimes the voids can dive deep into people’s minds, fortunately we have music. If we humans are spaceships exploring the universe, music as an art is like stars that shine upon us.

Music Narration
The lyric book outcome
The lyric book outcome
The black letters refer to the first letter of the first word of each song, and the letters with colourful patterns refer to a star that the spaceship passes by when that song begins. From left to right, top to bottom they are: Earth, Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Io, Europa, Callisto.
The black letters refer to the first letter of the first word of each song, and the letters with colourful patterns refer to a star that the spaceship passes by when that song begins. From left to right, top to bottom they are: Earth, Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Io, Europa, Callisto.
This is the soundwave image of music abstracted combined with lyrics as text.
This is the soundwave image of music abstracted combined with lyrics as text.
A song visualisation sample: This is an ambient music with sounds coming from far to near one after another, which feels like fog and wind, so I created this cross-fade shape pattern.
A song visualisation sample: This is an ambient music with sounds coming from far to near one after another, which feels like fog and wind, so I created this cross-fade shape pattern.