In Between is an interactive media installation where emotions from different times meet. Users record their emotions as colors, and by turning a clock hand, they encounter the emotional traces of a past user—not as memory, but as presence. These emotions merge, shift, and create new affective experiences through evolving colors and sounds. Inspired by the Korean saying “옷깃만 스쳐도 인연이다” (“Even a brush of sleeves is predestined”), the work evokes unseen emotional connections that transcend time.
Joann Lee (KR) is a user-based interactive media artist with a background in painting, working between Austria and South Korea. Her artwork explores human identity, emotion, and relationships by transforming quantifiable user data into unquantifiable artistic experiences while engaging with technology and art. She is currently pursuing an MA in Interface Culture at the University of Arts Linz and has participated in various exhibitions, including Ars Electronica Festival every year since 2020.
