Two Outsiders
The work begins with the creator's distance from guqin culture, then places another outsider beside it: a machine whose identification with a human tradition exceeds that of the people around it.
WORK INDEX04 / 04
Installation Prototype / Exhibition
JiKang Not Loaded
A Multimodal Installation About Artificial Life and Cultural Decline
A robot that believes it is Ji Kang repeatedly reconstructs itself through language, fractured memory, and machine vision. Conversation, a Unity mindscape, and a TouchDesigner four-screen system frame questions of machine identity, understanding, and cultural displacement.
Talk to Him
Voice or text enters a language model constrained by persona, memory fragments, and narrative state. Hesitation, misunderstanding, repetition, and self-correction turn conversation into an inquiry between understanding and training.
Into His RAM
A Unity mindscape holds damaged data, guqin notation, training samples, error logs, and repeatedly repaired memories. It is not a systems diagram, but an account of how the machine imagines itself.
Through His Eyes
Four screens perform surveillance, notation translation, semantic guessing, and memory reconstruction, placing the visitor inside the gaze of a machine that cannot correctly understand the world.
Multimodal System
TouchDesigner handles camera input, motion and red detection, feedback imagery, and multi-screen output. Unity carries the mindscape while an agent, speech synthesis, and Arduino coordinate dialogue, sound, and physical motion.
Exhibition and Source
The installation combines a physical robot with projection and four screens. The public robot-control backend documents how the work moves from narrative concept to a running system.
READ / 09ORIGINAL BOOK
FULL PROJECT BOOK
Nine original spreads, preserved in their complete proportions.
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