AN ALTAR IS WHEREEVER
YOU KNEEL
5 Channel Video Installation; 2024
An Altar is Wherever You Kneel is a multi-channel video installation that explores the collision between rituals and emerging technologies, revealing an alternative way of experiencing spiritual practices through procedure contents and non-human centric narratives.
It is a discovery of self, fields, invisible forces and shapes. It starts off as a study of value systems that reveals the power of spirituality and an introspection of a physical body navigating in a hybrid field. It slowly evolves to a constellation of work intersecting spiritual ideologies, system diagramming, and computer graphic techniques.
A TAXONOMY IS
A PRAYER
Woven Blanket, 2023
You’re standing in a field of vows.
Time and space are social constructs.
It’s anti-random, forward-moving.
Seeds of consciousness float in the air,
as we drift through space.
Slowly to stretch, to expand, to find meanings,
to connect, to land on consensus.
Seeds sprout, the temporal is us.
“Did you confess today?”
A private, but collective; intimate, but remote;
messy, but direct ask.
A feedback loop we construct to construct ourselves.
To all hidden thoughts, unspoken tales,
and fleeting moments,
Our existence is a prayer.
Our body is not a body, our body is not ours.
Our body is not ours, our body is a network.
Our body is ours.
THE ENDURINGLY EPHEMERAL
Artifacts, Fabrication, Photo Direction; 2024
The Enduringly Ephemeral is a study of impermanence through making meaningless objects. In a world where tales of future are etched in traces, relics and preservations, new memories are born from the past. Can we design for the impermanence? How to craft for the transient? Can we compose the ephemera and unfold the ambiguous of living and re-living? By materializing the transient tapestry of life and portraying the fragmented whispers of the unseen, this work-in-progress project delves into the longevity of existence and its lingering stories with the remnants endure.
ATLAS OF LIFE
Graphic Essay; 2023
What constitutes living organisms? Is there a relation between movement and congenital needs? How can we expand the notion of life through a lens of boundless movement and daring speculation? What will be the paradigm shift that enables us to venture into uncharted territories of creatures?
"Atlas of Life" is a 3-minute graphic essay that investigates the intersection between the living and the non-living from a metaphysical perspective. It explores the potentiality of life and its expansion over time. By weaving elements of storytelling, creative writing, experimental sound design, image making, animation, AIGC, typography, and filmmaking, this graphic short embraces a fusion of digital production and traditional analog techniques. The short is an outwardly-oriented invitation, asking the audience to join the collective entity of "us" as we traverse through time and transcend into a grander existence, a new embodiment of life.
QUANTUM CHOREOGRAPHY
LIVE VISUAL PERFORMANCE; 2023 (IBM Horable Mention)
Quantum Choreography is a live performance piece that Investigates the concept of superposition in quantum computing. A qubit in superposition, unobserved, is in all possible states simultaneously. When measured, it must fall to either 0 or 1.
During the performance, the dancer is constantly improving, to repersent the infinite possibilities that lie between measured states. When the light fell on her, making her observable, she chose one of two different static positions, collapsing into a binary.
Real time visuals were created to correspond to the states of being observed and unobserved. When the light is on, we can see the particles cohering to the dancer’s form. In darkness, they shift between different shapes representing infinite possibilities. The shapes are determined by a quantum dice circuit in IBM Quantum Composer, generating true quantum randomness.
Credits:
Live Visual: Marshall Wang
Video Edit: Guanhao Zhu
Creative Tech: Gabriel Lee
Movement: Xiaoyue Zhang
NEURA FUTURES
Art Direction, Installation; 2021-2023 (MIT Media Lab)
NeuraFutures as a whole is a large explorative project about the representation of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) in science fiction media. This project was initiated and lead by MIT Media Lab, under Dr. Nataliya Kosmyana . Further exhibition information and material upon request.