PROJECTS
Extraordinary Encounters
Sour Gummies Don’t Cry
Blood Child
Will you touch me?
Hengli
SMALL WORKS
Grow Old Here
All That Blahs
Meet My Anxiety
Performance Lecture, MotionCapture, Web Development, System Design
2025-26
2025-26
In this 20-minute interactive lecture performance, viewers are given the power to control the artist’s body via a custom web app. The artist executes these commands in real time like a human avatar, while simultaneously giving a talk on data extractivism, digital labor, and queer cyberfeminism.
Part of the ongoing series Artificial Agency, the performance examines our embodied relationship to data, digital products, and agentic AI. The participatory system redistributes power among audience, artist, and computer – aiming to reconfigure a more fluid type of agency.
Live music composed and performed by Chienn Tai.
How is the illusion of agency used as a means of digital (self-)colonization? Facing the challenges of algorithmic control, how can we reclaim our agency? During the performance, is the artist an agentless NPC (Non Playable Character) or an avatar that channels a multitude of agency not owned by a singular entity?
The piece has been performed in various art, academic and public spaces, engaging with diverse audiences, ranging from the general public at the Oculus World Trade Center in New York to computer scientists at the UbiComp/ISWC Conference. It also becomes a social experiment that investigates how power shifts among audience, artist, and computer. The participatory system of the performance aims to reconfigure a more collective and fluid type of agency through embodied interaction.
This work has received support from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and New York Public Interest Technology (PIT).
Curious to learn more? Read documentation here.