Shower-thoughts: An immersive VR experience about mind wandering during bathing

Yuxuan Bai; Elke Reinhuber; RAY LC

doi:10.23362/KOEN2025.07.25.1.018

Shower-thoughts: An immersive VR experience about mind wandering during bathing

Yuxuan Bai
, Elke Reinhuber
, RAY LC^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Creative Media

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Abstract

What happens in our minds when we are taking a shower? This is an art project about shower-thoughts. In this project, the author has collected his thoughts during bathtub bathing. Using frame-by-frame VR animation, the author recreated 6 independent scenes based on 5 selected show-er-thoughts. Starting from “When you swim underwater, you are also swimming above water,” ending with “For a moth flying to a flame, the bonfire is its sun, and the firefly is its star.” The outcomes were displayed in an exhibition in which the audience will be invited to lie down in a real bathtub and experience the visualized shower-thoughts in a VR headset. The project aims to disseminate shower-thoughts as a form for documenting and sharing ideas generated during mind wandering. It further explores the application of creative painting in VR as well as its limitations.

© 2024, The Author

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the International Symposium on Electronic/Emerging Art: 2025, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Publisher	Seoul National University
Pages	151-158
ISBN (Electronic)	979-11-87275-32-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.23362/KOEN2025.07.25.1.018
Publication status	Published - 25 Jul 2025
Event	30th International Symposium on Electronic/Emerging Art (ISEA 2025): 동동 (憧憧, DongDong): Creators’ Universe - Seoul, Korea, Republic of Duration: 23 May 2025 → 29 May 2025 https://isea2025.isea-international.org/

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Conference	30th International Symposium on Electronic/Emerging Art (ISEA 2025)
Abbreviated title	ISEA 2025
Place	Korea, Republic of
City	Seoul
Period	23/05/25 → 29/05/25
Internet address	https://isea2025.isea-international.org/

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Shower thoughts
Mind-wandering Visualization
Immersive Experience
Virtual Reality Painting
Spatial animation

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Sonic Shower: An interactive sound installation exploring sonification of water
Bai, Y., Lei, W. & Lindborg, P., Dec 2025, SA Art Papers '25: Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Art Papers (December 2025). New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 26. (Proceedings - SIGGRAPH Asia Conference Papers, SA).
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Bai, Y, Reinhuber, E & LC, RAY 2025, Shower-thoughts: An immersive VR experience about mind wandering during bathing. in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Electronic/Emerging Art: 2025, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Seoul National University, pp. 151-158, 30th International Symposium on Electronic/Emerging Art (ISEA 2025), Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 23/05/25. https://doi.org/10.23362/KOEN2025.07.25.1.018

Shower-thoughts: An immersive VR experience about mind wandering during bathing. / Bai, Yuxuan; Reinhuber, Elke ; LC, RAY.
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Electronic/Emerging Art: 2025, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Seoul National University, 2025. p. 151-158.

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