Cyber Matrix Prison
"Multi-Screen Installation"
Cyber Matrix Prison treats the screen as sculptural matter and stages identity as a condition under continuous computation. Five irregular displays assemble a fractured spatial field, requiring viewers to move, scan, and stitch the image through their own position. At the center, a real-time digital portrait refuses to stabilize. A face is generated as an ongoing rewrite, sliding between cyborg resemblance and abstract mutation, as if personhood were a template being constantly re-authored. Beneath it, a parametric torso appears as a liquid hybrid of volume and signal, neither fully virtual nor fully tangible, but suspended between body and interface.
The work points to the underside of “digital immortality.” When continuity is outsourced to generation, biological existence becomes deterritorialized into endlessly revisable data. The portrait’s perpetual collapse and reconstruction performs a quiet mechanical return. Transformation looks expressive at first, then reveals itself as repetition. Change becomes a loop rather than a choice, and identity thins into pattern, until the figure reads less as a subject than an unstable protocol trapped inside a system designed to keep running.
By binding physical space to an image that cannot hold still, Cyber Matrix Prison produces a threshold state between matter and information. It asks what remains of the self when survival is measured by processability, updatability, and the ability to stay online.
On Operation / Group Exhibition 2023
Jishu Hall ｜Hangzhou China