Description:

This is a project to create a memorial web for the people who sadly died caused by COVID-19 in HK, the idea for them having a “home” to stay warm. Meanwhile is a lesson for reflection and being prepared for the future.

Here is a web cemetery for them to group and live here. 

Link to my project: Digitdeath

Background

The 5th wave of the pandemic of COVID-19 in HK caused a huge number of deaths in HK. The public health system was overloaded, which caused them before dying, they need to live in an overclouded hospital. With a poor living environment, and never can arrange to meet with their relatives or families.

The whole process is very upsetting. Even we can feel their helplessness from the news pictures taken in the hospital at that time.

This work is helping to create a platform mentally having a “gathering venue”, creating their unique profile picture, live forever in this “home”. Reminding the people in the future, and letting us have a chance to worship them.

Technical

Getting the data, generate at least 10,000 profile pictures and arrange them into a grid.

The outcome is a web that contains 3 pages: Homepage, background info, and cemetery.

From the HKSAR government COVID-19 information website, every day posting the latest data about the COVID situation in HK into a CSV file. I download the latest one when I create this work, using the latest updated number of the death caused by COVID in HK.

For visualizing them into the cemetery setting, but they are already… Then we need to pay more effort to create their images. Like the ways recently people generate a huge amount of pixel art images for NFTs creation. By drawing several layers of pixel-art-style images, by a plugin created by codeSTACKr, posting on GitHub, help us to generate a huge amount of combinations of images of those layers for forming the images.