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Preface

The entry of my graduation proposal will be a Buddha machine, a music box for meditation. It was sacred but cheap, industrial yet transcended.

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."

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

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SI#25 SOUND_OF_MAKING

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, finding the materialization, fluity and resistence of the sound.

Key Connection✎: Sound collage, archival practice

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.

Key Connection✎: Script-based narrative, fictioning, storytelling

Radio Worm: The Guideline to Shadows' Mindscape

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

Key Connection✎: fiction writing, role play, broadcasting

SI#26 DECLARATION

[Key_Connection]: Interactive Interface

Face_Notation

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It is a interactive website that 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.

  

Key Connection✎: fiction writing, role play, broadcasting

SI#27 See you many times!

The Observer Clock

"Every blink counts.

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

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  Eye_Tracking_Mechanism

The Observer Clock transforms our most unconscious body language—blinking—into a direct conversation with time itself. This interactive installation consists of a blinking-detection clock where visitors' blinks literally accelerate the passage of time,revealing how our attention speaks in ways we rarely notice.

I also used the weasy print to documentation the whole research process and the basis machnism.

Key Connection✎: installation, archiving

THE_BUDDHA_MACHINE

[0] CONTEXT: THE_INFINITE_LOOP

Why research the Buddha Machine?

File:PLACEHOLDER IMAGE OF BUDDHA MACHINE.jpg

The interface of transcendence.

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.

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[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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