in-progress
2026
Keepsakes in Every Hair ~ Migration is a multi-channel video and sound installation that explores migration as both a physical and metaphysical journey. The work creates an immersive environment of layered projections, spatialized sound, and performance where temporal traces—memories, environmental shifts, and digital imprints—intersect and evolve.
At its core is a decentralized system of six autonomous AI “minds,” each conceived as a keepsake: a carrier of memory and perception that responds to its environment. Rather than operating as static programs, these entities behave as non-human observers, producing unstable patterns of continuity and disruption. Their expressions emerge as shifting constellations of sound and image, reflecting the fragile negotiation between what is remembered, what is sensed, and what is yet to come.
This project reflects my ongoing research direction, which seeks to expand the role of the screen from a passive display into an active collaborator. Building on earlier work in interactive systems and post-cinematic environments, I investigate how AI can shape new forms of perception—non-linear, contingent, and process-based. These explorations dissolve boundaries between human and machine, natural and digital, memory and anticipation.
Through this synthesis of art, technology, and philosophy, Keepsakes in Every Hair ~ Migration stages migration not only as a passage across space but as an unfolding process of transformation. It reframes migration as the act of carrying traces forward—subjective impressions meeting external conditions—revealing how memory, environment, and technology together create new ways of understanding time and change.
