Qing Wang

Qing Wang is an illustrator from China, currently studying Information Experience Design at the RCA. She is interested in telling stories in multi-media and uses narrative language to explore psychology and sociology.

“Mushrooms in the Room “is an interactive picture book. This story is adapted based on my friends around me and my own experience. I always chose to stay in my room to avoid problems. I actively used my virtual identity to participate in the community, but my loneliness and anxiety remained unresolved, exacerbating my fear of real life. In the new media technical communication, we broke the distance barrier but found that body language gradually lost its original position, even making communication, in reality, an obstacle.

We constantly share and communicate in the digital world to prove our existence. However, long-term addiction to virtual environments can once again lead people to fall into the anxiety of fear of loneliness and lose themselves. The AR section of this picture book uses AI as the reference, providing more assistance and possibilities for personal painting learning and exploring new narrative perspectives through AR technology from another perspective. Inspired by “House by Day, House by Night”, mushrooms symbolize negative emotions in this story, and the room is a virtual comfort zone and a petri dish for mushrooms. Addiction to the Internet does not solve the problem. On the contrary, it makes us more isolated from the outside world.