in-progress
2026
Multi-channel audiovisual installation incorporating AI-mediated temporal processes, layered projection, spatialized sound, and a networked sensing system.
Keepsakes in Every Hair ~ Migration is a collaborative, multi-channel audiovisual installation that explores migration as both geographic movement and a shifting condition of perception, memory, and identity. Developed in collaboration with a music composer, a spatial designer, and a data scientist, the work unfolds through layered projections and spatialized sound shaped by six distinct temporal processes: human time, liminal time, environmental time, digital time, infrastructure time, and more-than-human time. These temporalities are not presented as abstract themes but operate as active perceptual logics within the installation.
At the core of the work is a distributed AI system that functions as a set of perceptual agents. Each agent interprets memory, sensation, and environmental input through its own temporal framework. Drawing from atmospheric and emotional cues associated with collaborator Masayoshi Ishikawa’s memories and musical compositions, these AI-mediated processes reorganize fragments of sound, image, and text over time. Rather than producing fixed outputs, the system continuously negotiates between remembered impressions, present conditions, and emergent tendencies. The project’s technical development is shaped through ongoing dialogue between artistic intent, spatial composition, and computational modeling.
The installation treats time as migratory rather than linear. Moments loop, echo, dissolve, and reform as the AI system recalibrates its internal states. Short piano motifs surface intermittently like flashes of recollection, marking points where human memory and machinic perception briefly intersect. These moments emphasize instability, hesitation, and transition, revealing how memory shifts as it moves across bodies, systems, and environments.
Computation in this work is not positioned as a generative engine but as a perceptual layer that senses, translates, and reframes experience alongside human presence. Keepsakes in Every Hair ~ Migration extends my ongoing research into the screen as an active collaborator and investigates how AI, when treated as a co-perceiver rather than a tool, can participate in shaping temporal awareness. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, the installation examines how contemporary technologies, personal histories, and environmental conditions together influence how we carry, transform, and project our keepsakes into future states.
