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Preface

The entry of my graduation proposal will be a Buddha machine, a music box for sutra, it was sacred but cheap, industrial but transcended. Why would I study the Buddha machine? It needs to go back to the city where I grew up. There is a 24/7 sound repeated in my mother's apartment, it was absurd, with no gender, keep chanting...

Before the graduation proposal, I need to find the clue from my Xpub 1 practices, tracing the methodology and the tools in the past one year。

How the body is disciplined by systems
/// and how we react ///

I aim to find the cracks, the glitches, the moments where we can insert our own meanings.

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SI#25 SOUND_OF_MAKING

[Key_Connection]: Sound collage, scriptwriting

In SI25, sound was the tool to explore invisible discipline.

Broadcast#3: Underwater_Exploration

> Field recording as storytelling Using water as a metaphor to explore systems. Collaging diverse audio samples to investigate the textures of aquatic environments.

Broadcast#5: Bad_Customer_Service

Scripts.exe

> Script-based Narrative Sound, like call center scripts, is repetitive and systemic. This project constructed a fictional space transforming protocols into narrative scripts.

Radio Worm: The Guideline to Shadows' Mindscape

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A radio drama about the Chinese art system. Exploring algorithmic intrusion and escape.

SI#26 DECLARATION

[Key_Connection]: Interactive Interface // Real-time Gen

Face_Notation

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Face Notation transforms the bodily markers of Chinese physiognomy into a music system.

Users adjust browser windows (CSS Grid), turning the disciplined body into a musical instrument.

  

SI#27 See you many times!

The Observer Clock

"Every blink counts. The more you blink, the faster the clock runs."

>> ATTENTION IS CURRENCY <<

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  Installation.view

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  Documentation_Err.log

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  Eye_Tracking_Mechanism

THE_BUDDHA_MACHINE

/// SACRED_YET_CHEAP /// INDUSTRIAL_YET_TRANSCENDENT ///

[0] CONTEXT: THE_INFINITE_LOOP

Why research the Buddha Machine? There is a 24/7 sound in my house—ambiguous, genderless, looping "Amitabha" endlessly. This is my **mother's machine**. She once worked on the factory assembly lines; now, she uses this cheap plastic box to "accumulate merit."

File:PLACEHOLDER IMAGE OF BUDDHA MACHINE.jpg

The interface of transcendence.

SYSTEM_PARADOX_DETECTED:

• Soundscape: Factory = Hard Labor // Practice = Healing
• Body: Production Line = Tool // Home = Merit Accumulator

[1] METHODOLOGY: THE_PHANTOM_CITY

Output: Web-based Installation + Publication

A non-linear virtual space simulating "Spiritual Suspension".

User navigates a **"Phantom City" (Yicheng)**—a digital mirage.

• **STATE 1: THE LOOP:** If input == 0, system decays into noise.
• **STATE 2: THE GLITCH:** Clarity appears as a mirage, then dissolves.
• **STATE 3: SUSPENSION:** Repurposing the exhausted body in hyper-efficiency.

File:PLACEHOLDER SKETCH.jpg

Space_Concept_v0.1

[2] PROTOTYPES_LOADED

• PLACEHOLDER BLADDER RUNNER.jpg

  Bladder Runner
  Body as Metaphor

• PLACEHOLDER INSTANT FAITH.jpg

  Instant Faith
  Dependency vs Belief

• PLACEHOLDER INTERFACE MAPPING.jpg

  Interface Mapping
  Data of Exhaustion

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