installation
A video and sculptural installation that documents hoarding behaviour as an art of defiance,
co-performing with an Object Detection AI.
i won't pack lightly for my trip to mars
A video and sculptural installation that documents hoarding behaviour as an art of defiance,
co-performing with an Object Detection AI.
“If you had one night to go through the things you hoarded in life and decide what to pack for Mars, what would you spend the night on?”
This project is centred around the research of "(data) hoarding" as an art of defiance against (digital) erasure.
Started during the pandemic, this project observes the intertext between hoarding medicine, food, and personal documents in a volatile time versus hoarding information, texts, and images in a heavily censored speech environment. Through verbatim materials, AI, and digitised object archives, I intend to trace out the generational silent kinship among the Madarin-speaking diaspora community in our way of coping with the chronic trauma from algorithmic obsolescence.
Framed as a dig site of two open suitcases left behind in a rush, the installation is a showcase of authentic research footage layered with the operation log of an AI censor and the artist's visual response. Grounded on 1:1 interviews, participants were invited to film themselves packing and narrating the stories behind their collections. A YOLO AI model is trained to perform object recognition on the footage and censor random “sensitive” items by cropping them away. As a response, the artist then prints out the remaining images and fills in the hollow boxes with resilient clay-made figures.
The work is still under further development for a larger-scale live performance or documentary.
Exhibition:
2022.9 - (Sub)Systems, MA/MFA Computational Arts Degree Show, Goldsmiths, UK
This project is centred around the research of "(data) hoarding" as an art of defiance against (digital) erasure.
Started during the pandemic, this project observes the intertext between hoarding medicine, food, and personal documents in a volatile time versus hoarding information, texts, and images in a heavily censored speech environment. Through verbatim materials, AI, and digitised object archives, I intend to trace out the generational silent kinship among the Madarin-speaking diaspora community in our way of coping with the chronic trauma from algorithmic obsolescence.
Framed as a dig site of two open suitcases left behind in a rush, the installation is a showcase of authentic research footage layered with the operation log of an AI censor and the artist's visual response. Grounded on 1:1 interviews, participants were invited to film themselves packing and narrating the stories behind their collections. A YOLO AI model is trained to perform object recognition on the footage and censor random “sensitive” items by cropping them away. As a response, the artist then prints out the remaining images and fills in the hollow boxes with resilient clay-made figures.
The work is still under further development for a larger-scale live performance or documentary.
Exhibition:
2022.9 - (Sub)Systems, MA/MFA Computational Arts Degree Show, Goldsmiths, UK