in-progress
2026
Keepsakes in Every Hair ~ Migration is a multi-channel audiovisual installation that explores migration as both physical and metaphysical movement. The work constructs an immersive environment of layered projections, spatialized sound, and live presence, where temporal traces, memories, and digital signals intersect and transform.
At its core is a decentralized system of six autonomous perceptual “minds,” each conceived as a keepsake, a carrier of memory and temporality that responds to diverse real-time data streams gathered from multiple networked sources. Rather than functioning through automation, these minds interpret and translate incoming information through distinct temporal logics, generating evolving constellations of image and sound. Their expressions unfold as shifting negotiations between what is remembered, what is sensed, and what is still forming.
The project’s initial research phase includes a musical collaboration with composer Masayoshi Ishikawa, whose recorded memories form part of the dataset used to train and shape the AI system. The current phase expands the framework’s machine learning architecture and visual orchestration for future exhibition.
Keepsakes continues my research into the screen as an active perceptual collaborator rather than a passive surface. Building on earlier explorations in interactive systems and post-cinematic environments, it examines how machine learning can operate as a form of temporal imagination — nonlinear, adaptive, and process-based. These explorations dissolve boundaries between human and machine, natural and digital, memory and anticipation, creating an environment where technological systems perceive and transform alongside us.
