RAY LC and collaborators. Juried Artist
Constellations
WebXR on the Styly platform
Artist Statement
RE:GENERATE attempts to alter our perception of climate change by exploring speculative narratives of the future in the form of machine-learning-created visualizations of urban and natural landscapes under threat. The imaginary timelines move backward-forward to show our resilience despite destruction. Adaptation is indeed possible, if we engage with a speculative understanding of potential outcomes. Premiered in Venice with La Storta Scala Mata in parallel with the Venice Biennale, 20 May 2023. Also shown at ACM Creativity and Cognition 2023-2024 and ISEA 2024.
Virtual exhibition: https://gallery.styly.cc/scene/b9194fe7-5b8c-4235-9001-2fa380c7eb01
TIME AFTER TIME is both an exploration of the filmmaking process — taking raw material to be shaped into two contrasting narratives that join back together in sight and sound — and a symphony in film language showing us and hiding from us the details of a city too small to see with our constantly bombarded senses, giving us an opportunity to listen and watch the waves of a city sweep over us.
https://youtu.be/dJqMX3oZM58
Presented at PMQ Hong Kong exhibition “Beyond Human Spaces” 16-30 Nov 2023 curated by Kiesly Tsang, Block A S507 5F 35 Aberdeen Street Central, video documentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J4Jok8MHEU&feature=youtu.be. Shown as part of Fragment of Our Imagination: https://recfro.github.io/fragment-imagination/, and as a virtual showcase at ISEA 2024: https://gallery.styly.cc/scene/b9194fe7-5b8c-4235-9001-2fa380c7eb01
Styly link: RE:GENERATE; TIME AFTER TIME
About the artists
RAY LC’s practice creates interaction environments for building bonds between humans and machines. He uses speculative narrative approaches to probe the ways humans adapt to technology. RAY takes perspectives from his research in neuroscience (Nature Communications) and HCI (CHI, CSCW, HRI, DIS) in his artistic practice, with works at BankArt, New York Hall of Science, KYOTO Design Lab, Elektra Montreal, Ars Electronica, Saari Residency, New Museum, NeurIPS, Angewandte Festival, JCCAC, Osage Gallery, Macau Art Biennale, Videotage, Goethe Institute, Hong Kong Arts Centre, PMQ, Science Gallery, ISEA, IEEE VISAP, SIGGRAPH Asia. RAY (PhD UCLA, MFA Parsons School of Design) was awarded by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Verizon Connected Futures, Adobe Design Award, Microsoft Imagine Cup, Kone Foundation, Davis Peace Foundation, NY Foundation for the Arts, Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Hong Kong Research Grants Council GRF, Lumen Prize. RAY founded the Studio for Narrative Spaces: https://recfro.github.io/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/studiofornarrativespaces/
Credits: RAY LC, Mia Yao Lan, Latisha Besariani Hendra