Media Arts and Technology

Practice 1 This image explores the transformation of familiar food objects into soft felt-like materials, blurring the boundary between edible textures and handcrafted textiles. By combining realistic lighting with woolen surfaces, the work invites viewers to reconsider material perception and tacti...

In-Class Practice: Prompt: an abstract human face emerging from architectural forms, cubist composition inspired by Picasso, facial features fragmented and misaligned, soft pastel colors, dreamlike, poetic, architectural anatomy. Negative: realistic face, photography, symmetrical portrait, anime, hy...

Project 1: From Private Memory to Urban Palimpsest This project follows the development and progression of memory, beginning with the inner, personal space and continuing outward toward the collective, dense space of the urban environment. Beginning with the isolated, aged figure in the personal, pr...

This week, what left the deepest impression on me was Fencing Hallucination by Qiu Weihao. The striking element of this piece is how it brings media art and AI together to reimagine early photographic techniques. Through encouraging AI avatars with a series of physical movements of viewers, itinerar...

From Spatial Perception to Machine Vision: How Machines Understand Space Zixuan Zhang — MAT 200A Final Project The research focuses on the existing gaps between human spatial perception and machine vision systems, drawing insights from the realms of artificial intelligence, media art, and robotics s...

Sketch Chair, created by FRONT, redefines the relationship between drawing and making by translating abstract freehand sketches into three-dimensional physical products using motion capture technology. In such an approach, designers do not view drawings as two-dimensional images; instead, the proces...

You Only Have Seven Seconds is a fusion of filmmaking and installation art to represent the development of memory visually. The artist leverages an AI network to convert whispered memories from thousands of visitors to “synthetic visual” images, thereby generating an ever-expanding “memory” database...

https://www.canva.com/design/DAG27rWBzo8/_DuOQ0zUJM_Q2O5beAbS8g/edit This is the link for our PowerPoint. This project is a collaborative study between Gao Xue and me, inspired by and based on our reconstruction of Rodger Luo’s project created seven years ago. Luo’s original work explored how multip...

"Thousand Layers of Drift," a visual installation piece, was produced by Jeju Biennale, a group of artists. This artwork utilizes data about ocean currents' pathways in a way that immerses the viewer in a visual experience of data as flow, light, shadow, and rhythm. Entering this data-filled gallery...

In reading about “Big Data: From Data to Metadata,” I learned that data has not just been an instrument for science and governance but also a raw material for artistic and cultural inquiry. Artists use data to illuminate hidden ordering systems that structure everyday life, translating abstract info...