in-progress, 2026
Interdisciplinary collaboration. Distributed networked installation with AI agent ensemble, live piano performance, and spatial sound.
Memory is not a stable record. It is rewritten each time it is read, its original form no longer recoverable once it has passed through other temporalities of attention. This is the condition the work begins from: memory shaped by migration, translation, and uneven belonging, where what is held is always already drifting.
The work places this condition into operation. A distributed ensemble of AI agents forms a listening field, each agent shaped by a distinct temporality. The agents learn what surrounded Masayoshi Ishikawa across his trajectory through the world — weather, geographies, administrative regimes, generational media — but not him. What is learned never names its subject.
Memories Ishikawa has written, tied to compositions of his own, enter the system as its only human input. Each agent reads these memories from its own temporality. The readings do not converge. They produce surfaces alongside the original, drifting as environmental conditions continue to flow through. The same memory reads differently at different moments of the exhibition.
Ishikawa’s composition and live performance enter the work alongside the agents, neither directing nor being directed by them.
One of two related installations exploring memory as condition rather than artifact.
Developed with Masayoshi Ishikawa (composition and piano) and Seungho Lee (spatial design).
