* LOW LATENCY ENGINE（WIP）*
Audio Visual / Expanded Animation, 2026
「低延遲引擎」
LOW LATENCY ENGINE is a audiovisual live performance and an ongoing investigation into urban operations and interface-based modes of seeing.
The work is framed through a simulated infrastructure console. Its dashboard translates dispersed urban processes into states of signal, routing, illumination, calibration, and circulation, giving the city the appearance of something measurable, traceable, and operable. Positioned between physical infrastructure and a simulated engine, the central moving image presents a series of urban machines removed from their everyday contexts while retaining clear functional associations.
All scenes unfold within a deep-black space. Searchlights, status signals, flight paths, and mechanical movements produce a cold and precise visual order. Industrial pulses, low frequencies, and mechanical rhythms directly shape the speed, intensity, and transitions of the image. Sound provides the temporal framework of the performance, making the rhythms and pressures of urban infrastructure perceptible.
The interface maintains the appearance of stable and orderly operation, while subtle distortions, omissions, displacements, and temporal deviations continuously emerge within the image. These irregularities expose the distance between urban reality and its operational model. The interface can organise a complex environment into readable states, yet it cannot fully contain that environment within a single field of surveillance.
During the live performance, the artist modulates sound and image in real time through the console. The audience encounters an urban instrument under continuous activation, observing signals, light, routes, and mechanical structures shift through states of synchronisation, deviation, and recalibration. The title LOW LATENCY ENGINE refers to the shrinking interval between signal and response, as well as contemporary urban systems’ dependence on immediate transmission, continuous updating, and precise operation.
Premiere at Cedar Land, Shanghai
WAVES CROSS VOL. 3 NIGHT 01
LIGHT SAMPLING
@ SiGNO