An immersive, interactive experience built to tell complex stories about IT systems and observability through visuals and gestures. I worked as the developer on this project, helping to turn abstract service simulations into something users could explore and engage with.

Built with WebGL, the experience lets users interact directly with a modular 3D environment—shifting perspectives, discovering data, and revealing layered narratives. It was a deep dive into experimenting with how best to visualise different aspects of system behaviour, making something usually hidden feel tangible, fluid, and even playful.

At its core, the project is about making complexity approachable—giving users the tools to explore, understand, and tell their own stories through interaction.

Interactive Data Visualisation

IBM Observability Solutions

Brain Virtual Theater is a multi-sensory virtual installation that blends a circular altar, collective consciousness, virtual reality, and generative art. It explores the idea that our perception of the world is fundamentally shaped by the mental images within our brain—subjective projections interpreted through neural signals. As we enter an era where digital simulations increasingly influence our inner worlds, this work questions whether our brain is decoding the universe, or if it is actively creating it.
      
In this project, I focused on developing GPU-accelerated particle systems within Unity. I designed and implemented real-time visual effects using compute shaders, enabling efficient simulation and rendering of complex particle behaviors. This approach allowed for high-performance, dynamic visual feedback responsive to EEG input and user activity within the VR environment.

This project marked my first experience building an interactive system in Unity and my first time contributing to a multi-user VR experience. I explored various visualization strategies and optimized real-time performance, deepening my understanding of Unity’s rendering pipeline and shader architecture. The integration of neural input into the VR system also broadened my interest in combining biometric data with interactive media, opening up possibilities for future projects at the intersection of art, neuroscience, and technology.

Collective Consciousness + Virtual Reality

Brain Virtual Theater

La nuit lumiere is generated by the data of participants accumulated throughout the 12 hours of Nuit Blanche Taipei 2022. The participant flow and the audience credit mission trigger the ratio of RGB color values, which represents “avant grade,” “guarding” and “balance.” 

Everyone’s authentic experience is fantastically transformed into real-time data of the virtual world, which is converged and converted into the lumiere of the night, shining for the belief of all and merging with the sun at 6 am.
    
At the moment of sunrise, step towards the future.
      
6pm-6am. Once every hour, 12 times in total.

La Nuit Blanche Taipei 2022

La Nuit Lumière

Part of the 'AI:More than Human' exhibition 2019 at Barbican

Through a series of questions, making viewers realize how big of a footprint they have left on the internet. The project is built using WebGL combined with face detection. With detection of the looking direction of the face, we could also detect whether the viewer is nodding or shaking their head. And then we invite the views to nod or shake to answer the question. 

Progressing through the questions, if the user has left more footprints on the internet, it makes the face more visible. 
        

Barbican Centre - AI: More Than Human

Data Face Print

Pulse is a data visualization of a football match using the gathered audio data in a live football match. Enabling viewers to see and hear the excitement of the match scrolling through the timeline and compare with the marked important timestamps. An alternative view is also provided for visualizing the overview of the match.
 
The project is built with a customized WebGL library. Capture the mouse scroll to move the camera through the timeline and using instancing to render the huge amount of cubes.      
      

Visualisation of a football game

FC Bayern - Pulse

An interactive data visualization project, using the data of the transactions of the Sibos in one day. Each circle represents a transaction, the bigger the circle is, the larger the amount is. There are also 5 interactive data stories that are randomly displayed when viewers get close to the LED wall.

There are different layers of interaction in this project. The first layer is for viewers that's more than a meter away from the LED wall. 2 Kinects are set up to capture the viewer's motion and use it to affect the flow of the circles. The second layer is when the viewer stands next to the LED wall, a randomly selected data story will appear in front of the viewer. The last layer is the touch LED wall that the viewer can go through the different pages of the data story or even to the next data story.
      
The visualization is built using WebGL and a custom library. Processing for capturing motion with kinect, and lastly a node server is set up as the central control transmitting message and events between WebGL and the kinect using websockets and OSC.
      

WENSDAY is the portfolio ofYi-Wen LIN — creative coder and generative artist from Taiwan.Based in London, UK. Working remotely with clients and partners worldwide.