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Interactive Installation
2024
In collaboration with Chi Hao Chang
An installation that recontexturalizes loading
On the current internet, images load in an instant, scrolls are endless, and content is delivered before desire can even form. In some rare moments, we encounter something different: lazy loading. Instead of revealing everything at once, the browser postpones the loading of images until they are needed. While designed for performance, lazy loading inadvertently creates a space for slowness. This project, Lazy is Efficient, emerges from my ongoing inquiry into digital temporality and the aesthetics of delay. It examines how technical moments of “waiting” can become opportunities for contemplation. Rather than treating lazy loading as a flaw, I approach it as an interface rhythm that resists immediacy.
What is lazy loading
Technically speaking, lazy loading is a performance optimization strategy where images or resources are deferred until needed, reducing initial load time. It is often celebrated for its practicality: less bandwidth, faster interactivity. But conceptually, lazy loading embodies a kind of digital procrastination. Unlike eager loading, which rushes to complete everything upfront, lazy loading waits. It suspends. It trusts the moment will come.
Design: A collaborative waiting space
Lazy is Efficient is a participatory installation and online experience. Viewers are invited to upload images to a website. These images are then projected onto a large wall in a gallery space, but not immediately. Each image appears only in a blurred, ambient form, accompanied by a loading animation. No content is shown, only color and motion. No message, only movement.
When several people participate simultaneously, the wall fills with layered loading animations. The effect is like watching waves. After several minutes of loading, the image appears in full clarity—but only for five seconds. This reversal in proportion emphasizes the journey over the arrival. The image is not the point. The waiting is.
Like water
When multiple images begin to load at once, and each carries the familiar gradient animation sliding from left to right, a gentle rhythm emerges. It resembles the lapping surface of water: soft, continuous, and strangely comforting. When enough images load simultaneously, their motion becomes collective and fluid. The overlapping gradients pulse like waves, a synchronized ripple of opacity and light. It’s not just animation—it’s a liquid choreography. Where others might feel frustration, I feel peace. I find myself wishing it would never finish, that the loading would go on forever.
A platform without urgency
By requiring user participation and deferring gratification, the project reimagines how we interact with digital platforms. In contrast to social media, where images are shared and consumed instantly, this interface strips away urgency. When everything is blurred, everything becomes one. The viewer is invited to enjoy the waiting, not rush toward content. In this context, what matters is not what you share, but how your contribution joins the rhythm of others. It’s a collective poem.
Reframing delay as design
In a world where loading is typically treated as failure or friction, this project asks: What if waiting is not a technical obstacle but a design material? What if slowness is not a problem to be solved, but a space to be held?
By amplifying the overlooked gesture of lazy loading, I hope to make visible the emotional and poetic qualities of digital lag. When we slow down long enough to notice how images arrive, not just what they contain, we reclaim part of our attention from the compulsions of speed. We find ourselves lingering in a moment that is neither beginning nor end.