Moving Maze

In collaboration with Yujie Wang

The maze, a historical ludic architecture, is reinvented through the experimental art of a spatio-temporal turnbased disorienting mechanism. Built on the analysis  on the system-part relationship of a maze, the Moving Maze moves its parts methodically in response to the player’s movement. A misorienting system composed of repetitive parts, the Moving Maze is deconstructed into the non-subdivisible unit, which can propagate into a field through replication and orthogonal rotation. The maze generates unpredictable and interactive outcomes with fragmental movement using gamer-relational rules, in which the gamer achieves the joy of navigating the system’s movement. A complex system synthesizing turnbased procedural computation with ludic architecture, the Moving Maze explores a novel maze mechanics where indeterministic systemic complexities governed by simplest minimalistic rules.