Symbiotic Signals: Entangled Perspectives and Algorithms
Cross-Campus Exhibition 2026
On June 3, 2026 at 3 PM we will open the second cross-campus exhibition Symbiotic Signals: Entangled Perspectives and Algorithms. This exhibition is the second major collaboration between HKUST and HKUST(GZ) in the field of computational art, following the first cross-campus exhibition on Altering Nature: Exploring Life in Computational Art in 2025. The exhibition was curated by three members of the reseach group, including Wenqing Gu, Xuanyi Zhang, and Ulrich Formann.
The second cross-campus exhibition is showing artworks from the Division of Arts and Machine Creativity (AMC) from the Clear Water Bay campus as well as from the Computational Media and Arts (CMA) Thrust in Guangzhou, highlighting digital art, art and AI, interactive installations, soundscapes, and moving-image practices, to provide a vital platform for faculty and student innovation and data-driven creativity. By bridging the two campuses, the exhibition project is fostering an intellectual dialogue between researchers and emerging artists, with a focus on technology inspired art practices. In an age where algorithms mediate how we feel, remember, and move artistic responses point to the circumstance that our bodies are inextricably entangled in a never-ending process of circulating signals. New forms of co-existence are being explored, due to the fact that we are constantly being watched by cameras, sensed by devices, and ubiquitously are surrounded by intelligent technologies. Interactive installations and cinematic constellations are asking what algorithms “see” and how we will live with them while keeping our stories, rituals and fragile living ecologies alive.
We will put 15 artworks on display, including: Zoe Qijing Li (I Tell the Moon My Secret & the Moon Tells Me Yours), Yilin Luo, Xuanyi Zhang, Qiushi Zhou (MirrorVerse), Zhiwan Cheung (Dong Xuan), Hao Li (KARMA), Ulrich Formann (One Yuan), Yishuai Zhang (Echoes of Earth), Jue Wang (UnseenRealm), Tiancheng Liu, Nicolò Merendino (BruSHŪ), You Zhou, Xiaolin Zhu (The Flowing Source: Cycles of Stillness), Jie Yang (The Thaw Manifesto), Azure Zhang (Thermal Pareidolia), Yufan Li, Qing Yang (Touch Our Scars), Yujie Liu, Ulrich Formann (Uncanny Alley), and Zhengnan Guo (La biblioteca de Babel).
The exhibition will be shown next to gate 1 at the exhibition space of the Qingsheng Pilot Zone Exhibition Center (iPARK), second floor, from June 3 till July 20, 2026.
