Solo Exhibition
Networked installation, Real-time data visualization, found footage archive, smartphone interface
multiple digital screens, web interface (PHP, SQL, multiple APIs), LED sculpture
The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization; and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation. (Whitehead, 1978)
I Hear a Tree in the Wind at Night is a networked installation that brings together real-time data visualization, found footage archives, smartphone interaction, and sculptural light display within a responsive exhibition environment. Connecting the physical gallery to a live web-based interface, the work allows activity inside and outside the space to enter the same visual field, where movement, data, and image circulation continuously reshape the installation.
The project draws on real-time geolocational input while archiving and retrieving found footage through a dynamic database. Visitors’ smartphones function as active inputs, affecting visual composition, spatial rhythm, and the distribution of light across the exhibition. Within this structure, the screen operates not as a passive surface but as part of a broader network through which movement, image, and mediated space are registered and redistributed.
Rather than separating physical presence from digital representation, the installation brings them into the same spatial system. Navigation, signal exchange, database activity, and changing illumination become part of the work’s material behavior, turning the gallery into a site where visitor movement, technical mediation, and environmental registration unfold together.
Across the exhibition, moving image, live data, and LED illumination produce a shifting field of light, shadow, and screen-based feedback that continually reorients the viewer within the space. I Hear a Tree in the Wind at Night established an early foundation for my ongoing research into networked environments, live mediation, and distributed screen-based systems.
I hear a tree in the wind at night
