SIGNATURE WORK
CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION 2024

Live D/VJ performance, as known as live audiovisual performance, has been perceived as an experimental branch of entertainment technology, widely practiced and applied among the current performance industry nowadays. Previous research and creative works mainly investigated intuitive perceptions of real-time audiovisual information and symbolic interpretation of live coding practices. However, the potential of developing this expressive medium into an intermedia storytelling narrative, delivering meaningful multi-sensory experience, and bringing audiences inspiration with concerned social issues has yet been under exploration. In order to address this challenge, in our Signature Work project, we designed and executed We Have Lost Even This Twilight (WHLETT) – a 20-min intermedia storytelling D/VJ performance, which aimed to tell a love story under the background of techno-consumerism culture in a cyberpunk future worldview, encouraging audiences to speculate the notion of love in the highly technology-mediated modern lifestyles. We carried out the performance and a follow-up panel discussion to collect feedback from the initial 52 audiences.