Concept

Every commute is shared space — bodies in proximity, minds elsewhere entirely. Subway Stories made those invisible inner lives visible, projecting hand-drawn characters onto architectural surfaces and inviting audiences to explore their thoughts, memories, and daydreams through a physical crank interface.

The piece is relevant as a precedent for campus installations that celebrate human contribution within large organizations. Where a subway car holds strangers whose stories go untold, a workplace holds colleagues whose breakthroughs, struggles, and creative leaps are often invisible to one another. The same interaction model — turning a crank to reveal a hidden narrative — could surface the stories of individual contributors to AI, making the abstract labor of research and engineering feel intimate and specific.

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Exhibition

The installation traveled across multiple venues and formats, adapting its projection scale and interface to each context — from the intimacy of a gallery booth to the scale of a building facade.

SIGGRAPH Art Gallery

DUMBO Arts Festival

Subway Car Installation

The project was also installed inside a decommissioned subway car, where projections mapped directly onto the windows — collapsing the boundary between the illustrated world and the physical interior.