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==<span style="color: Firebrick;"><big>TLDR: Systems & Bodies</big></span>==
==<span style="color: Firebrick;"><big>TLDR: Systems & Bodies</big></span>==


Before joining XPUB, I worked as an editor for a government-funded art curation agency in Southern China. My role spanned branding, copywriting, and radio show planning. This experience made me deeply reflective about the relationship between '''<span style="color: RoyalBlue;">systems, body, collectivity, and individuality</span>'''.
Before joining XPUB, I worked as an editor for a government-funded art curation agency in Southern China. This experience made me deeply reflective about the relationship between '''<span style="color: RoyalBlue;">systems, body, collectivity, and individuality</span>'''.


Throughout my time at XPUB, I've explored one recurring theme across all three Special Issues:
Throughout my time at XPUB, I've explored one recurring theme:
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<big>'''how the body is disciplined by systems, and how we react'''</big>
<big>'''how the body is disciplined by systems, and how we react'''</big>
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I aim to find the cracks, the glitches, the moments where we can insert our own meanings.
I aim to find the cracks, the glitches, the moments where we can insert our own meanings.
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=<span style="color: Firebrick; font-family: monospace;">'''SI#25 Sound of Making: Protocols for Collective Performance'''</span> =
=<span style="color: Firebrick; font-family: monospace;">'''SI#25 Sound of Making'''</span> =
'''Key Connection: Sound collage, archival practice, scriptwriting'''


In SI25, We used sound as a tool to explore invisible discipline. Sound, like call center scripts, is '''repetitive and systemic'''. By editing and transforming these soundscapes, I aimed to create <code style="background-color: RoyalBlue; color: White;">moments of agency</code>.
In SI25, I used sound as a tool to explore invisible discipline. By editing and transforming repetitive soundscapes, I aimed to create <code style="background-color: RoyalBlue; color: White;">moments of agency</code> within fixed protocols.


===<span style="font-family: monospace; color: RoyalBlue;"> [[SI25 Broadcast 3: Underwater Exploration|Broadcast#3: Underwater Exploration]] </span>===
===<span style="font-family: monospace; color: RoyalBlue;"> [[SI25 Broadcast 3: Underwater Exploration|Broadcast#3: Underwater Exploration]] </span>===
'''<small><code style="background-color: Firebrick; color: AliceBlue;">Field recording as storytelling</code></small>'''
'''<small><code style="background-color: Firebrick; color: AliceBlue;">Sound Collage & Archival Practice</code></small>'''


Curated a sonic collection of diverse water-related audio samples to investigate the textures of aquatic environments. When water became a metaphor, we had so much room to imagine and discover a visible system. Without discussion, we use an <span style="text-decoration: underline wavy RoyalBlue;">improvisation way</span> to edit and collage them in Radio Worm.
Using water as a metaphor, I collected various water-related sounds to explore the systems of water through collage. We presented the spatiality, fluidity, and resistance of sound in Radio Worm.


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===<span style="font-family: monospace; color: RoyalBlue;"> [[SI25 Broadcast 5: Protocols For Bad Customer Service|Broadcast#5: Protocols For Bad Customer Service]] </span>===
===<span style="font-family: monospace; color: RoyalBlue;"> [[SI25 Broadcast 5: Protocols For Bad Customer Service|Broadcast#5: Protocols For Bad Customer Service]] </span>===
'''<small><code style="background-color: Firebrick; color: AliceBlue;">Script as Narrative Space</code></small>'''
'''<small><code style="background-color: Firebrick; color: AliceBlue;">Script-based Narrative & Fictioning</code></small>'''


[[File:Week5 BadCustomerService SCRIPTS8.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Bad Customer Service Scripts]]
[[File:Week5 BadCustomerService SCRIPTS8.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Bad Customer Service Scripts]]
Sound, like call center scripts, is '''repetitive and systemic'''—it shapes behavior in ways we don't always recognize.
This project investigated how the rigid scripts of service labor can be subverted. We constructed a fictional space based on real systems, transforming call center protocols into a narrative script.
 
This project investigated how the rigid scripts of service labor can be subverted to tell personal stories. We developed a script exploring the potential of customer service protocols as an unconventional narrative space.  


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===<span style="font-family: monospace; color: RoyalBlue;"> [[Radio Worm: The Guideline to Shadows' Mindscape]] </span> ===
===<span style="font-family: monospace; color: RoyalBlue;"> [[Radio Worm: The Guideline to Shadows' Mindscape]] </span> ===
[[File:Poster of the radio show.jpg|thumb|left|300x300px|Poster of the radio show]]
[[File:Poster of the radio show.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Poster of the radio show]]
After this exploration, I created a radio show prototype examining '''Chinese artistic labor'''—the intersection of creative work and systemic pressure.  
A radio drama about the '''Chinese art system'''. It explored how art laborers navigate and escape under high system pressure and algorithmic intrusion.
 
* ''Key Connection: Fiction writing, role play''
This piece was broadcast on '''Worm Radio''', questioning: <code style="background-color: Lavender; color: Firebrick;">how do artists survive when their labor is both creative and constrained?</code> It explored themes of algorithmic intrusion and the laborer's escape from high-pressure artistic environments.


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=<span style="color: Firebrick; font-family: monospace;">'''SI#26 - Declearation'''</span>=
=<span style="color: Firebrick; font-family: monospace;">'''SI#26 - Declearation'''</span>=
'''Key Connection: Interactive web interface, real-time sound generation'''
===<span style="font-family: monospace; color: RoyalBlue;">[[Face Notation |Face Notation]] </span>===
===<span style="font-family: monospace; color: RoyalBlue;">[[Face Notation |Face Notation]] </span>===
[[File:Site si26.png|frameless|401x401px|Face Notation interactive interface shown at Varia|left]]<div style="background-color: GhostWhite; padding: 10px; border-left: 5px solid RoyalBlue;">[[File:Face-pazzle1.pic.jpg|thumb|169x169px|Face Notation prototype: Interactive face puzzle]]'''Face Notation''' is an interactive website inspired by Chinese physiognomy (face-reading) and web design. I noticed how
[[File:Site si26.png|frameless|401x401px|Face Notation interactive interface shown at Varia|left]]<div style="background-color: GhostWhite; padding: 10px; border-left: 5px solid RoyalBlue;">[[File:Face-pazzle1.pic.jpg|thumb|169x169px|Face Notation prototype: Interactive face puzzle]]'''Face Notation''' transforms the bodily markers of Chinese physiognomy (face reading) into an interactive music composition system.  
'''CSS elements''' move and shift when you resize a browser window—just like how facial features supposedly determine destiny in traditional face-reading logic.
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The project allows users to '''compose music with their own faces''': a way of reclaiming the body from systemic definition. By turning the face into a musical instrument, I question:
Users create personalized soundscapes by adjusting browser windows (CSS Grid) and dragging facial elements, turning the disciplined body into a musical instrument.
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<big>'''"Who has the power to define what our bodies mean?"'''</big>
===<span style="font-family: monospace; color: RoyalBlue;"> Face Notation Workshop </span>===
In this 90-minute workshop, participants mapped their own facial features into music. Individual compositions were superimposed to create a spontaneous group sound performance.
* ''Key Connection: Workshop as research method, collective improvisation''


In Chinese physiognomy, every mole, every line, every feature carries meaning assigned by tradition. But what if we could reassign that meaning? What if the system of interpretation became <span style="text-decoration: underline wavy Firebrick;">playful, collaborative, musical?</span>
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=<span style="color: Firebrick; font-family: monospace;">'''SI#27 See you many times'''</span>=
=<span style="color: Firebrick; font-family: monospace;">'''SI#27 - Attention as Invisible Labor'''</span>=


I began researching attention as labor—how it is disciplined yet unacknowledged.


'''Observer Clock''' is an installation that links '''blinking''' to the flow of time.
===<span style="font-family: monospace; color: RoyalBlue;"> The Observer Clock </span>===
'''<small><code style="background-color: Firebrick; color: AliceBlue;">Invisible labor, archiving, documentation</code></small>'''


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<div style="width:80%; margin: 0 auto; background-color:black; border-style: dotted; border-width: 5px; border-color: Firebrick; color: AliceBlue; padding: 15px; text-align: center; box-shadow: 5px 5px RoyalBlue;">
<big>'''"Every blink counts. The more you blink, the faster the clock runs."'''</big>
<big>'''"Every blink counts. The more you blink, the faster the clock runs."'''</big>


This work reflects my experience in service jobs where '''attention itself becomes labor'''. When your job is to watch, to monitor, to pay attention—your body's unconscious actions become part of the work.
The most unconscious bodily movement (blinking) is transformed via technical mediation into conscious control (time).
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File:The observer clock .jpg|Observer Clock: Installation view showing the clock interface
File:The observer clock .jpg|Observer Clock: Installation view
File:The observer clock booklet.png|Documentation booklet explaining the concept
File:The observer clock booklet.png|Documentation booklet
File:The observer clock 1.jpg|Detail: Eye-tracking mechanism and clock display
File:The observer clock 1.jpg|Detail: Eye-tracking mechanism
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'''The central question:''' If attention creates value and shifts time, what do we truly desire from our bodies and technologies? Are we observers of time, or is time observing us?


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=<span style="color: Firebrick; font-family: monospace;">'''External Works & Workshops'''</span>=
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=== <span style="font-family: monospace; color: RoyalBlue;">Drifting Down to the Nearby</span> ===
=<span style="color: Firebrick;"><big>Graduation Proposal: The Buddha Machine</big></span>=
[[File:Drifting Down To the nearby.png|left|thumb|Contributed my perspective of being a immigrant in Netherland]]Co-authored a writing project documenting the nuanced life experiences and the concept of the "nearby" through the lens of an immigrant in the Netherlands.
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Sacred yet cheap. Industrial yet transcendent.
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=== <span style="font-family: monospace; color: RoyalBlue;">0. Context: The 24/7 Loop</span> ===
Why research the Buddha Machine? I must return to my home in Shenzhen.


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 music box to "accumulate merit."


[[File:PLACEHOLDER_IMAGE_OF_BUDDHA_MACHINE_OR_MOTHER.jpg|thumb|center|600px|The cheap, plastic interface of spiritual transcendence.]]


'''The Paradox:'''
* '''Soundscape:''' In the factory, repetition is hard labor; in spiritual practice, it is healing.
* '''Body:''' On the production line, the body is a tool; in the home, it is a "marginalized person" seeking an afterlife.


=== <span style="font-family: monospace; color: RoyalBlue;">1. Methodology: The Phantom City</span> ===
'''Format: Web-based Installation + Publication + Thesis'''


I am creating a non-linear virtual space that simulates a state of <code style="background-color: Lavender; color: Firebrick;">"Spiritual Suspension"</code>.


The user navigates a **"Phantom City" (Yicheng)**—a digital mirage where time stagnates.
* **The Loop:** If you stop, the system decays into noise.
* **The Ambiguity:** Occasionally, clear images or comforting sounds appear, but they are mirages that dissolve quickly.
* **The Goal:** To explore the mechanism of repurposing exhausted bodies in a hyper-efficient society.


=== <span style="font-family: monospace; color: RoyalBlue;">Workshops @ Garage Rotterdam</span> ===
[[File:PLACEHOLDER_SKETCH_OF_WEB_INSTALLATION.jpg|thumb|center|600px|Concept sketch for the Web-based installation: A non-linear liminal space.]]
'''Language(s) :KABK x PZI Alumni Exhibition'''


Presenting '''Workshop: "Face Notation / From Face-Reading to Personal Soundscapes"'''. In this 90-minute workshop, participants used <code style="background-color: Lavender; color: Firebrick;">Chinese mole-reading traditions</code> to create music. Each person's face became a score, each feature a note—reclaiming the body from predetermined meanings.
=== <span style="font-family: monospace; color: RoyalBlue;">2. Pre-Grad Prototypes</span> ===
To arrive at this graduation project, I conducted three key experiments:


[[File:Workshop in garage rotterdam.jpg|center|frameless|500x500px]]
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File:PLACEHOLDER_BLADDER_RUNNER.jpg|'''Bladder Runner (Field Diary)'''<br>Using the bladder as a metaphor to translate somatic experiences in Shenzhen factories into text/image.
<div style="background-color: AliceBlue; padding: 15px; box-shadow: 10px 10px RoyalBlue; border: 2px solid Firebrick; margin-top: 40px;">
File:PLACEHOLDER_INSTANT_FAITH.jpg|'''Instant Faith Workshop'''<br>Participants designed their own "faith systems" to test how dependency translates into belief.
 
File:PLACEHOLDER_INTERFACE_MAPPING.jpg|'''Mundane Spiritual Interface Mapping'''<br>An interactive survey mapping the daily technologies people use when exhausted.
=<span style="color: Firebrick;"><big>Graduation Proposal: Cyber Sutra for displaced bodies</big></span>=
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My creative practice is evolving toward more '''participatory performance''' and '''interactive workshops'''.
 
==Key words==
 
==Reading==
 
==Prototype==
* <code style="background-color: Firebrick; color: AliceBlue;">Bladder Runner Field Diary:</code> A visual and textual field diary that employs the bladder as a metaphor to translate visceral bodily experiences from field research in Shenzhen.
* <code style="background-color: Firebrick; color: AliceBlue;">Mundane Spiritual Interface Mapping:</code> Designed an interactive survey website to collect and map individual "spiritual geographies," visualizing the mundane technologies people utilize during states of exhaustion.
 
'''Future:'''
I aim to deepen the intersection of '''programming, sound, and body''' while exploring new modes of engagement with audiences as active co-creators.


[[File:Clark’s_proposition_Estruturas_vivas_(Live_structures,_1969),_in_use_probably_in_Paris_in_the_early_1970s._Rubber_bands._Courtesy_“The_World_of_Lygia_Clark”_Cultural_Association,_Rio_de_Janeiro.jpg|center|frameless|300x300px]]
<div style="text-align:center; font-size: 0.8em; color: RoyalBlue;">''Clark’s proposition Estruturas vivas (Live structures, 1969)''</div>
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Revision as of 20:15, 7 December 2025

TLDR: Systems & Bodies

Before joining XPUB, I worked as an editor for a government-funded art curation agency in Southern China. This experience made me deeply reflective about the relationship between systems, body, collectivity, and individuality.

Throughout my time at XPUB, I've explored one recurring theme:

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.

🪷 🪷 🪷 🪷 🪷 🪷 🪷 🪷 🪷

SI#25 Sound of Making

Key Connection: Sound collage, archival practice, scriptwriting

In SI25, I used sound as a tool to explore invisible discipline. By editing and transforming repetitive soundscapes, I aimed to create moments of agency within fixed protocols.

Broadcast#3: Underwater Exploration

Sound Collage & Archival Practice

Using water as a metaphor, I collected various water-related sounds to explore the systems of water through collage. We presented the spatiality, fluidity, and resistance of sound in Radio Worm.

  • Collaborative script reading

  • Audio devices

Broadcast#5: Protocols For Bad Customer Service

Script-based Narrative & Fictioning

Bad Customer Service Scripts

This project investigated how the rigid scripts of service labor can be subverted. We constructed a fictional space based on real systems, transforming call center protocols into a narrative script.


Radio Worm: The Guideline to Shadows' Mindscape

Poster of the radio show

A radio drama about the Chinese art system. It explored how art laborers navigate and escape under high system pressure and algorithmic intrusion.

  • Key Connection: Fiction writing, role play


★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

SI#26 - Declearation

Key Connection: Interactive web interface, real-time sound generation

Face Notation

Face Notation interactive interface shown at Varia
Face Notation prototype: Interactive face puzzle
Face Notation transforms the bodily markers of Chinese physiognomy (face reading) into an interactive music composition system.

Users create personalized soundscapes by adjusting browser windows (CSS Grid) and dragging facial elements, turning the disciplined body into a musical instrument.

  

Face Notation Workshop

In this 90-minute workshop, participants mapped their own facial features into music. Individual compositions were superimposed to create a spontaneous group sound performance.

  • Key Connection: Workshop as research method, collective improvisation


SI#27 - Attention as Invisible Labor

I began researching attention as labor—how it is disciplined yet unacknowledged.

The Observer Clock

Invisible labor, archiving, documentation

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

The most unconscious bodily movement (blinking) is transformed via technical mediation into conscious control (time).

  • Observer Clock: Installation view

  • Documentation booklet

  • Detail: Eye-tracking mechanism


Graduation Proposal: The Buddha Machine

Sacred yet cheap. Industrial yet transcendent.

0. Context: The 24/7 Loop

Why research the Buddha Machine? I must return to my home in Shenzhen.

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 music box to "accumulate merit."

File:PLACEHOLDER IMAGE OF BUDDHA MACHINE OR MOTHER.jpg
The cheap, plastic interface of spiritual transcendence.

The Paradox:

  • Soundscape: In the factory, repetition is hard labor; in spiritual practice, it is healing.
  • Body: On the production line, the body is a tool; in the home, it is a "marginalized person" seeking an afterlife.

1. Methodology: The Phantom City

Format: Web-based Installation + Publication + Thesis

I am creating a non-linear virtual space that simulates a state of "Spiritual Suspension".

The user navigates a **"Phantom City" (Yicheng)**—a digital mirage where time stagnates.

  • **The Loop:** If you stop, the system decays into noise.
  • **The Ambiguity:** Occasionally, clear images or comforting sounds appear, but they are mirages that dissolve quickly.
  • **The Goal:** To explore the mechanism of repurposing exhausted bodies in a hyper-efficient society.
File:PLACEHOLDER SKETCH OF WEB INSTALLATION.jpg
Concept sketch for the Web-based installation: A non-linear liminal space.

2. Pre-Grad Prototypes

To arrive at this graduation project, I conducted three key experiments:

  • PLACEHOLDER BLADDER RUNNER.jpg

    Bladder Runner (Field Diary)
    Using the bladder as a metaphor to translate somatic experiences in Shenzhen factories into text/image.

  • PLACEHOLDER INSTANT FAITH.jpg

    Instant Faith Workshop
    Participants designed their own "faith systems" to test how dependency translates into belief.

  • PLACEHOLDER INTERFACE MAPPING.jpg

    Mundane Spiritual Interface Mapping
    An interactive survey mapping the daily technologies people use when exhausted.


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