Carmen.Creation


Track Me Here

Year           2025 Type          Interactive Installation Role           Artist, Maker Format    Individual


Track Me Here is an experimental art piece that connects familiar routines with unfamiliar mode of exploration. It documents patterns shaped by space, time, and movement through dérive-style walking in the city, presented in individual box sets. Beginning from a personal disconnection with traditional maps, the work investigates how walking influences our perception of space. Through a series of 1000m walks from familiar locations, starting from the South, East, North, and West, it reveals how time measures our psychological connection to place more than physical distance. Through this process, the artwork creatively remaps everyday routines and re-connects with the city through movement, memory and material form.





1000m from Gym
1000m from College
1000m from Home




Personal mapping


Map as an expressive tool to understand
ourselves and the world around us The evolution of cartography has been closely intertwined with human exploration and technological advancements. While mapping techniques have developed over time, maps have consistently served as tools to help us understand both ourselves and the world around us.

The “You’re here” sign on the maps usually help quickly recognise oneself’s location and direction by building a personal connection to a map.  The book “You are here - personal geographies and other maps of imagination” by Katherine Harmon (2004), further inspired me on how maps can be powerful expressive tools, capable of conveying diverse ideas shaped by personal interests and unique perspectives on the environment.




Pyschogeography


Walking as exploration



There are estimated 200 billion trillion of stars live in the universe, with familiar names like Sirius and Vega. Scientists classified these stars into 7 different categories, featuring the O, B, A, F, G, K, and M types of stars, Studying the stellar classification system is important for studying distinct stellar evolution stages which further interpret the development of our universe. Among the stars, the main sequence stars (see the H-R diagram), made up
of 90% of the star population, which are the most relevant to human lifes.

In the process of sonfication of the stars, we use the H-R diagram and electromagnetic spectrum as our guides. Transferring the data of wavelength (the temperature and colour of the stars) and their appearent brightness (the luminosity and distance from us) into sounds using Audio Universe’s data sonfication tool.  The sounds of the stars varied in hue and loudness.






Measurement of distance


Learn through multi-sensory interaction
Create personal  cosmic rhythm
Considering Science Museum Late as a general-access event with a wide range of young people participation, a fun and engaging experience is essential for learning through playing. We designed 5 stages of main interaction, and envisions a space concert where main-sequence stars become instruments, through touching and pressing, audiences to compose their own cosmic songs.