Mastermind

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Inspired by Taylor Swift’s "Mastermind", I turned its lyrics into an automaton. “Mastermind” features a clock and 14 dominoes. Once the dominoes are toppled, participants can wind the hour hand on the clock to bring the dominoes back up.

Michelle Wu

Michelle Mong Qi Wu (She/Her) is a creative technologist who was born in Fremont, California, raised in Shenzhen, China, and based in Brooklyn, New York. Equal parts creative and technical, Michelle harnesses technology’s power as a tool of creative expression in her practice. Her work spans from interactive installations to experimental performances, featuring themes that revolve around capturing and amplifying fleeting emotions and mundane situations, with the hopes to unearth deeper meanings behind them.

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What inspired you to make this project?
“What if I told you none of it was accidental
And the first night that you saw me, nothing was gonna stop me?
I laid the groundwork and then, just like clockwork
The dominoes cascaded in a line”
— Taylor Swift

The above lyrics are from Taylor Swift’s "Mastermind" in her album Midnights. Finding the song highly relatable to my personal life, I turned its lyrics into an automaton. “Mastermind” features a clock and 14 dominoes. Once the dominoes are toppled, participants can wind the hour hand on the clock to bring the dominoes back up.