https://hsurae.com hsurae Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:06:22 +0000 https://hsurae.com en https://hsurae.com/Main Mon, 24 Apr 2023 20:02:36 +0000 hsurae https://hsurae.com/Main ︎WORKS ︎ABOUT ︎contact ︎Gluttonous Rise <img width="3081" height="1169" width_o="3081" height_o="1169" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/daa06df10a7af35573ecde9a5ebd0b87b06e68f699217f435640c15cd29e5aec/77.png" data-mid="177233890" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/daa06df10a7af35573ecde9a5ebd0b87b06e68f699217f435640c15cd29e5aec/77.png" /> artist, designer, researcher, educator hsurae In the following acts of commotion, an unreliable narrator guides the reader through multiple subjectivities. Thenarrator’s credibility is compromised not due to character flaws or psychological inconsistencies,but a fundamental rejection of the individual. HOWMANYCITIZENSARELIVINGINTHISBODY? Hi there I’`m m`istre^ss kin$hi?p. (my pronouns are they/it) I’l! b(e yo`ur ho/st tod@y. gatcacaggt But to be completely honest, I’m not just hosting you. (a second set of breathing) (a butterfly flutters) (surround sound—bubbling) I am a puppet of the microbial, my thoughts encoded by viral genes, (ctatcaccct) my desires conditioned by bacterial wants. Like the insect whose gender— is bent by the Wolbachia bacteria; Like the ant aimlessly aimlessly aimlessly lurching under the persuasion of the Cordycep fungi; Or the zombie snail that climbs up to the top of a tree, (pulsating) (awaiting) the bird that consumes it. (agency) —who decides? “me” or “my microbes”? attaaccact Can the two ever be distinct from, outside of, each other? I want you to know this joy of being through others. We are not in ourselves, we are through others, always through others. &nbsp; ttggtatttt :herein lies the first line of the human mitochondrial DNA, inherited from ancestral bacteria. COMMOTION II&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The counter-aesthetics of em pathy I’m using empathy the way that poets use a word like rose, as a symbol that leaps between fact and feeling. Empathy is a concept we hear only too often, because at the bottom of empathy is the question: how do we care for one another? We cannot dispense with it, but we need to find ways to delay, displace, and dubb its meaning beyond the absolute individuation of subjectivity. &nbsp; COMMOTION III It behaves like a wave until it is observed &nbsp; https://hsurae.com/Text-over-Backdrop-Desktop Mon, 24 Apr 2023 20:02:37 +0000 hsurae https://hsurae.com/Text-over-Backdrop-Desktop ⏀Bürohaus 3Conference 12︎Universal Theory ︎General Research https://hsurae.com/Text-over-Backdrop-Mobile Mon, 24 Apr 2023 20:02:37 +0000 hsurae https://hsurae.com/Text-over-Backdrop-Mobile HSURAE https://hsurae.com/Semi-shishi-odoshi Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:06:22 +0000 hsurae https://hsurae.com/Semi-shishi-odoshi <img width="6048" height="4032" width_o="6048" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/89077e2f7e02931186167e88dfb7c907f6891cff3f47ae44fd8fce2daff9c81e/DSC_2671.JPG" data-mid="246996163" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/89077e2f7e02931186167e88dfb7c907f6891cff3f47ae44fd8fce2daff9c81e/DSC_2671.JPG" /> The shishi-odoshi or "deer-scarer" of Japanese gardens is a bamboo lever that fills with water until its weight tips it forward, emptying itself, then returns with a hollow knock. A rhythm of filling and release. Semi-shishi-odoshi transplants this logic into the substrate of the present century. Here, a faucet drips onto a silicon wafer, the same material at the heart of every GPU, every data center. Water accumulates on its polished surface. When the film of water reaches the edge of surface tension's capacity, it breaks, and the wafer tilts, drops, strikes the metal faucet in its return.<img width="6048" height="4032" width_o="6048" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f3e27f6e5c2b5b96af3c25cc0966dd8167468dab14ff3b3f3623d4b25da3cb73/DSC_2659.JPG" data-mid="246996162" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f3e27f6e5c2b5b96af3c25cc0966dd8167468dab14ff3b3f3623d4b25da3cb73/DSC_2659.JPG" /><img width="6048" height="4032" width_o="6048" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/74e1310af69d5a248f6d29ef627559da4674118958c85323277a19d0e5bee6ab/DSC_2647.JPG" data-mid="246996161" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/74e1310af69d5a248f6d29ef627559da4674118958c85323277a19d0e5bee6ab/DSC_2647.JPG" /> Semiconductor fabrication is among the most water-intensive industrial processes on Earth. A single chip fab consumes millions of liters daily. The data centers that serve those systems drink in turn: water circulating invisibly beneath the surfaces of everything we call "the cloud." We speak of AI as if it does not have a body. (It does not) But it thirsts. And it does not stop. //Semi-shishi-odoshi is a clock for a thirsty age. https://hsurae.com/Time-squatting Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:27:33 +0000 hsurae https://hsurae.com/Time-squatting 144 rock tiles. Moss table. Roly-poly colony. Copper dice.&nbsp;<img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a1b06f0c0501d08330d0c4adb7150ec25f4d3ccab75a3352606dd9baba0fe09a/IMG_6630-1.JPG" data-mid="246996060" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a1b06f0c0501d08330d0c4adb7150ec25f4d3ccab75a3352606dd9baba0fe09a/IMG_6630-1.JPG" /> This work is an interactive game of mahjong played with rocks collected from all over the world over many years. The set contains 144 pieces of rock tiles, and is played on a table bedded in living moss, which must be watered daily. Beneath it, a family of roly-polies tends its own quiet economy, cycling moisture and matter. To play is to be slowed. It is the ritual of drawing a tile, holding it and contemplating its weight/history/color/temperature. The game invites a sensorial shift in temporal register.<img width="6048" height="4032" width_o="6048" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/29f9b5ed4bd6022b482d15feffbdd19fe77a042d5026a0a2ce18e593ca175e3f/DSC_2525.JPG" data-mid="246996032" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/29f9b5ed4bd6022b482d15feffbdd19fe77a042d5026a0a2ce18e593ca175e3f/DSC_2525.JPG" /> Chakrabarty calls geological time abyssal for humans, something beyond imagination, resistant to our stories of progress and justice. This game doesn't resolve that gap, it jsut asks you to play with stones that predate you. &nbsp; <img width="6048" height="4032" width_o="6048" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b155f16d20d7ec8793cf2b5f708ade897f21ec1f866055f494225c185bb9b841/DSC_2621.JPG" data-mid="246996038" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b155f16d20d7ec8793cf2b5f708ade897f21ec1f866055f494225c185bb9b841/DSC_2621.JPG" /> Mahjong is a form with deep roots in pattern and reading, a game that has generations of history. Played here with stones that predate every player by millions of years, it becomes a practice of time squatting: inhabiting a temporality that is not ours to own. The moss grows and dies at its own pace. The roly-polies do not wait for your turn. The rocks do not remember being picked up.<img width="6048" height="4032" width_o="6048" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/557a2354e9b097f156c56eecc43503a9cead5628f067c7217d9d206a5b6281ac/DSC_2619.JPG" data-mid="246996037" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/557a2354e9b097f156c56eecc43503a9cead5628f067c7217d9d206a5b6281ac/DSC_2619.JPG" /> This game is a playful reminder that as humanity has become a geological force perhaps we should be thinking of progress with deep time in mind. <img width="6048" height="4032" width_o="6048" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/60c44817185ae4de354424f70a8466214a84ec7b90ed2966e52197c289239487/DSC_2494.JPG" data-mid="246996026" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/60c44817185ae4de354424f70a8466214a84ec7b90ed2966e52197c289239487/DSC_2494.JPG" /><img width="6048" height="4032" width_o="6048" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/84024ad95882f427d29f580cf657f7f0ed4fff552fd426f78abe358080648376/DSC_2532.JPG" data-mid="246996035" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/84024ad95882f427d29f580cf657f7f0ed4fff552fd426f78abe358080648376/DSC_2532.JPG" /> <img width="6048" height="4032" width_o="6048" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4dfc84950a0569dafd1c2799249c5799b26ea772f1f82eb4eb5e3f4f148e283e/DSC_2642.JPG" data-mid="246996043" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4dfc84950a0569dafd1c2799249c5799b26ea772f1f82eb4eb5e3f4f148e283e/DSC_2642.JPG" /> <img width="4032" height="6048" width_o="4032" height_o="6048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e32f6b04e80c0fb0684f1ebf76d930054870076ce4f09db57f5753dc51302c1f/DSC_2634.JPG" data-mid="246996040" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e32f6b04e80c0fb0684f1ebf76d930054870076ce4f09db57f5753dc51302c1f/DSC_2634.JPG" /> https://hsurae.com/The-100-Year-Drought Fri, 12 Dec 2025 03:03:28 +0000 hsurae https://hsurae.com/The-100-Year-Drought These works are ink wash landscapes made with a water that can no longer be called natural. The washes are painted with ultrapure water, the same chemically stripped liquid that rinses wafers and cools fabrication plants. It is water so thoroughly cleaned that nothing can live in it, enlisted entirely into industry. In the paintings it becomes almost invisible, what you see is the residue of ink, not the water itself. The landscapes are drawn by a liquid that has been evacuated of landscape. <img width="6048" height="4032" width_o="6048" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5642ec69814af2fe50e2c856392865c888652180b8e174b2eef0dfd5393026d5/DSC_2351.JPG" data-mid="241711592" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5642ec69814af2fe50e2c856392865c888652180b8e174b2eef0dfd5393026d5/DSC_2351.JPG" /> Each image sits on an SMT aluminum frame, a stencil normally used to print solder paste for PCB production. The valley, the dam, the terraced field are laid over a tool designed for routing currents across a board. Hydraulic earthworks rest on the negative of an electronic circuit. Behind the frame, light and shadow slips through the stencil. The animation is almost imperceptible, like breath. The wetness and the intelligence shys through this slow shimmer of light behind the mask.<img width="6048" height="4032" width_o="6048" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/974469e3fff14331adc74a4216317bb73c628ce3e9afc89257a4f819ad40c097/DSC_2539.JPG" data-mid="246995904" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/974469e3fff14331adc74a4216317bb73c628ce3e9afc89257a4f819ad40c097/DSC_2539.JPG" /><img width="5535" height="3594" width_o="5535" height_o="3594" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c77529118ca14ac25c230ee6aa424fc051cb60be7c96c2266029004ce415fd2e/DSC_2602.jpg" data-mid="246995907" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c77529118ca14ac25c230ee6aa424fc051cb60be7c96c2266029004ce415fd2e/DSC_2602.jpg" /><img width="5653" height="3788" width_o="5653" height_o="3788" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/34e1177d80a672e7946beab401f67630a336f4f726f2fb7ef13650e0eb87eb6f/DSC_2595.jpg" data-mid="246995906" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/34e1177d80a672e7946beab401f67630a336f4f726f2fb7ef13650e0eb87eb6f/DSC_2595.jpg" /> <img width="6048" height="4032" width_o="6048" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/25587ececbae6cfe7725a7e055651b5286eee7b50fc9b96115f364a2859a2a95/DSC_2604.JPG" data-mid="246995908" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/25587ececbae6cfe7725a7e055651b5286eee7b50fc9b96115f364a2859a2a95/DSC_2604.JPG" /> <img width="6048" height="4032" width_o="6048" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c7e97790b8b27998b4d7251f9d86c9e323c645b8d4d5d84fa22f97ff04aa10df/DSC_2362.JPG" data-mid="241711596" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c7e97790b8b27998b4d7251f9d86c9e323c645b8d4d5d84fa22f97ff04aa10df/DSC_2362.JPG" /> https://hsurae.com/The-clearest-waters-have-no-fish Fri, 12 Dec 2025 02:59:13 +0000 hsurae https://hsurae.com/The-clearest-waters-have-no-fish In this body of work, water appears everywhere and is nowhere. It circulates and cools its surroundings. It evaporates and is maintained. &nbsp; <img width="6048" height="4032" width_o="6048" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7edcbd66451c9ccdb38ce909e623022456d5f3d9407e7d74395a5e7cd0f39534/DSC_2359.JPG" data-mid="241711583" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7edcbd66451c9ccdb38ce909e623022456d5f3d9407e7d74395a5e7cd0f39534/DSC_2359.JPG" /> Our bodies are wet infrastructure. When a water breaks, we flow back into the ocean that we came from. Pregnancy becomes a contract for the future, a guarantee that circulation will not stop. The future is collateral. <img width="4032" height="6048" width_o="4032" height_o="6048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/82a73cc393789178f9780b9fcf55d3b5767e0f9a2c2cf9f91a5d7cbd77d5f3de/DSC_2761.JPG" data-mid="246995872" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/82a73cc393789178f9780b9fcf55d3b5767e0f9a2c2cf9f91a5d7cbd77d5f3de/DSC_2761.JPG" /> <img width="4032" height="6048" width_o="4032" height_o="6048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/39790b38d9f704d543d834e585cd0e9dbf757af04e540b1913e5a98003e12fc4/DSC_2800.JPG" data-mid="246995873" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/39790b38d9f704d543d834e585cd0e9dbf757af04e540b1913e5a98003e12fc4/DSC_2800.JPG" /> Breasts, wombs, oceans, and data centers are the same ontological stuff moving at different scales. Bodies become plumbing, suspended between myth and measurement. This is the logic of the drought: everything must circulate. Everything must be optimized. Even exhaustion is recycled as aesthetic.<img width="6048" height="4032" width_o="6048" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b55f7c95bfd735d75ac20e031e0083e09ac219d5b9d84cf0772920071937d4e5/DSC_2571.JPG" data-mid="246995874" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b55f7c95bfd735d75ac20e031e0083e09ac219d5b9d84cf0772920071937d4e5/DSC_2571.JPG" /> <img width="6048" height="4032" width_o="6048" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/483adadbcdf4a3cbf223fc8afc97ae36300c47975659e4248098c3a1ad12b54d/DSC_2376.JPG" data-mid="241711571" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/483adadbcdf4a3cbf223fc8afc97ae36300c47975659e4248098c3a1ad12b54d/DSC_2376.JPG" /> <img width="6048" height="4032" width_o="6048" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fec6adbac03a1374ecb4fc2dae39ccf8aed83bc3fb0c3517bf0b46c19fa60ff5/DSC_2585.JPG" data-mid="246995875" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fec6adbac03a1374ecb4fc2dae39ccf8aed83bc3fb0c3517bf0b46c19fa60ff5/DSC_2585.JPG" /> <img width="6048" height="4032" width_o="6048" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ddf8415a422e9103c3fe75a5f0e763a738f8a3904bc847ef46ca3811715d965e/DSC_2684.JPG" data-mid="246996151" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ddf8415a422e9103c3fe75a5f0e763a738f8a3904bc847ef46ca3811715d965e/DSC_2684.JPG" /> <img width="6048" height="4032" width_o="6048" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/915e9b96f72ee3d0e0e26483d76a5bb73c780d305481c1df8d11652811259d92/DSC_2698.JPG" data-mid="246996152" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/915e9b96f72ee3d0e0e26483d76a5bb73c780d305481c1df8d11652811259d92/DSC_2698.JPG" /> https://hsurae.com/Stories-Written-by-the-Sky Mon, 03 Nov 2025 08:39:59 +0000 hsurae https://hsurae.com/Stories-Written-by-the-Sky Stories Written by the Sky天空寫下的故事<img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/736361f13da135f7ccc7ccf0f5fa05b36f1cc86666664af26e979f1a7f41cea9/55037_3_0_369800.jpg" data-mid="240183358" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/736361f13da135f7ccc7ccf0f5fa05b36f1cc86666664af26e979f1a7f41cea9/55037_3_0_369800.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7f2eb350970eff934f7e4ba89a622340b52fbdd81f1af4bb514b15bde2603056/55037_3_0_324641.jpg" data-mid="240183357" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7f2eb350970eff934f7e4ba89a622340b52fbdd81f1af4bb514b15bde2603056/55037_3_0_324641.jpg" /> 如果種子能夠述說它的記憶，它會將哪些片段帶往未來？在這部影像裝置作品 中，紅藜麥成為敘事者，它不僅是一種植物，更是一位見證者、一位旅人。它 告訴我們，它曾嚐過恆春半島的熱風，也曾靜靜躺在北極的永凍層下。 〈天空寫下的故事〉由徐叡平與 Nancy Valladares、葉博允、Haamid Rahim黃偉軒聯合創作，靈感來自挪威斯瓦爾巴的末日種子庫與其所在的永久凍土地 景。作品以臺灣原生紅藜種子的視角出發，建構一段跨越地質時間、物種時間 與人類時間的敘事旅程。這場敘事既非線性，也不屬於單一個體，它是一場螺 旋狀的集體夢境，在觀眾的參與下，一次次重新組合。 紅藜麥從島嶼南端出發，遠渡冰洋抵達斯瓦爾巴的末日種子庫，最終在某個末 日過後的時刻於新世界破土而出。在成長的瞬間它記得：日益炎熱的島嶼、冰 川的崩解、漂浮的土地、消失的語言……這些記憶碎片等待觀者拾起與拼湊。 本作品以一組磁磚記憶拼圖邀請觀者重組這些碎片。每一次選擇都將觸發對應 的影像、聲響與敘事線，生成一組獨特版本的記憶。每一次體驗都不盡相同、 永不重複。觀眾將在這座開放敘事世界中，經歷時間的多樣性與偶然性，共同 思考人類和環境之間的毀壞、遷徙與再生。 〈天空寫下的故事〉不僅是對氣候變遷、物種保存與人類未來的提問，也是對 敘事本質的重構。在這部裝置中，「故事」不再屬於一個敘述者，而是在觀者 與素材之間不斷生成。這種非線性、多元視角的敘事形式，讓每位進入者都能 根據自己的選擇建構獨特的經驗。種子不再是被保存的對象，而是擁有語言與 記憶的行者，指引我們思考如何與土地、歷史與未來共處。 <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/83e4c30512947391e7c54f845aa1708a15015cddb9a2743e49c0377e18db49db/55037_3_0_415007.jpg" data-mid="240183359" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/83e4c30512947391e7c54f845aa1708a15015cddb9a2743e49c0377e18db49db/55037_3_0_415007.jpg" /> If a seed could speak of its memories, which fragments would it carry into the future? In this immersive cinematic installation, the red quinoa becomes a narrator/witness/traveler. It tells us that it has tasted the hot breeze of Taiwan and once laid still beneath the permafrost of the Arctic. <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2661a6fd562f6688c250ce5c78d39f336407cb5af20e32d36dd6c3549a481d57/55037_3_0_638062.jpg" data-mid="240183361" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2661a6fd562f6688c250ce5c78d39f336407cb5af20e32d36dd6c3549a481d57/55037_3_0_638062.jpg" /> Stories Written by the Sky is a collaborative work by HSURAE, Nancy Valladares, Paul Yeh, Haamid Rahim (Dynoman), and Huang Wei. Inspired by the Svalbard Global Seed Vault and the surrounding Arctic terrain, the work departs from the perspective of the indigenous Taiwanese red quinoa to construct a narrative journey that spans geological time, evolutionary time, and human time. The story is non-linear and does not belong to a single subject. It is a spiraling, collective dream, reassembled again and again through audience interaction. From the southern tip of the island, the red quinoa crosses the ocean to reach the Svalbard Doomsday Seed Vault, and eventually emerges from the soil in a post-apocalyptic world. In the moment of germination, it remembers: a warming island, the collapse of glaciers, drifting lands, disappearing languages……These fractured memories await an audience to recollect itself. <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5e4a0d579b40cfe0ddbe7ff1aff510e65b869c8b496de5b27189c6693ed1fd19/55037_3_0_669156.jpg" data-mid="240183362" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5e4a0d579b40cfe0ddbe7ff1aff510e65b869c8b496de5b27189c6693ed1fd19/55037_3_0_669156.jpg" /> The work invites viewers to reconstruct these fragments using a physical memory puzzle made of tiles. Each selection triggers a corresponding combination of video, soundscape, and narrative, producing a unique version of the memory. No two experiences are ever the same. Within this open narrative, the audience navigates through temporal multiplicity while contemplating themes of destruction, migration, and regeneration. <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/70679bb070c411424d119f0c4f005e48f149c2e70d7da25aff34391138cdbd52/55037_3_0_674107.jpg" data-mid="240183363" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/70679bb070c411424d119f0c4f005e48f149c2e70d7da25aff34391138cdbd52/55037_3_0_674107.jpg" /> Stories Written by the Sky is a meditation on climate change, species preservation, and human futures. We’re also attempting to reimagine the nature of storytelling itself. In this installation, the “story” no longer belongs to a single narrator; instead, it emerges in the space between the audience and the materials. This nonlinear, polyphonic narrative structure allows each participant to shape their own path through the work. The seed is no longer a passive object to be preserved, but a speaker and memory bearer, reflecting on how we might live with the land, with history, and with what comes next. <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/780385181bb41cd28eb6c5e4b8ba056d7c459711d4b76e204418b764631c7e32/55037_3_0_702032.jpg" data-mid="240183364" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/780385181bb41cd28eb6c5e4b8ba056d7c459711d4b76e204418b764631c7e32/55037_3_0_702032.jpg" /><img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8ecdb6df5890ce93a17f8aa6867dc8cf39a87125102ab793b37ff328161c4a10/55037_3_0_951630.jpg" data-mid="240183366" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8ecdb6df5890ce93a17f8aa6867dc8cf39a87125102ab793b37ff328161c4a10/55037_3_0_951630.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/465667db84c511fe1cfa8da708ff954e37aabecd3bd59d863d1b97c74bafdad4/55037_3_0_615410.jpg" data-mid="240183360" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/465667db84c511fe1cfa8da708ff954e37aabecd3bd59d863d1b97c74bafdad4/55037_3_0_615410.jpg" /> Source: National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts 特別感謝 相信世代University Cafe FabCafe Taipei Loftwork Tim Wong 甘逸群 陳品樺 麻省理工媒體實驗室研究員Maggie Coblentz 斯瓦爾巴大學中心北極地質學臨時副教授Marjolaine Verret 挪威奧斯陸大學冰川學家Ugo Nanni 融聲創意 斯瓦爾巴藝術文化單位Artica Svalbard 桃園市政府水務局大樹林滯洪池 屏東瑪家鄉紅藜麥田 爿爿花工作室 University Cafe Taipei FabCafe Taipei Loftwork Tim Wong Ethan Kan Pin-Hua Chen Maggie Coblentz, MIT Media Lab Research Specialist Marjolaine Verret, Temporary Associate Professor at the Department of Arctic Geology of the University Centre in Svalbard Ugo Nanni, Glaciologist at the University of Oslo in Norway Zone Sound Collective Arts and Culture Organization in Svalbard Artica Svalbard Dashulin Detention Basin, Department of Water Resources, Taoyuan The red quinoa fields in Majia Township, Pingtung Panpan Hua Studio https://hsurae.com/Water-Remembers-What-Capital-Forgets-water-does-not-speak-it-spills Thu, 25 Sep 2025 03:44:17 +0000 hsurae https://hsurae.com/Water-Remembers-What-Capital-Forgets-water-does-not-speak-it-spills Water Remembers What Capital Forgets (water does not speak, it spills) is a multimedia installation developed by Rae Hsu, during their Mensch Maschine residency in 2024. The installation contrasts ancient weaving techniques with water technologies in addition to financial and computational infrastructures, to develop a composite of natural, mechanical and human technologies. Exterior to the space is Hsu’s „The Empathy Machine“, concealed behind a tapestry designed and created by the artist on a Jacquard loom, which is considered to be the first programmable machine and an early ancestor of the computer. The Empathy Machine is a large language model built by the artist, designed to privilege difference over sameness in how it categorizes the world. Visitors that engage with the chatbot are invited to explore the limits of language and logic, while reflecting on the hidden water consumption of each interaction. The fountain centralized in the space, is a continuous stream of water, which weaves and drips with similar technology to the ancient craft of tapestry, displayed at the entrance to the space. The serpentine and quartz at its center points to the mineral extractivism embedded in the infrastructures of AI, from silicon wafers to rare earth materials. The water’s flow rate directly responds to real-time waves of volatility in NVIDIA’s stock price. This occurs through the operation of a microcontroller inherent to the clay plinth, which ties the flow of water to today’s markets and the corporations that stand for its dominance in the global AI thirst. Sometimes the water will flow rapidly, at other times quietly in direct response to the volatility of global financial markets, responding to socio-political change and the polycrisis. <img width="1083" height="734" width_o="1083" height_o="734" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e1493edb38fcff39bc3aa8d30c5ca98b71b91b5446fee8eb644af98f0f241e0f/return-to-earth-dokumentation_Laila-Kaletta_2025_high-res_61.jpg" data-mid="238891963" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e1493edb38fcff39bc3aa8d30c5ca98b71b91b5446fee8eb644af98f0f241e0f/return-to-earth-dokumentation_Laila-Kaletta_2025_high-res_61.jpg" /> When visitors press their ears to the clay plinth, they enter a generative soundscape: a meditation on liquidity, calculation, empathy, and wealth. This soundscape was co-developed by the artist with The Empathy Machine, creating a collaboration between human and machine for artistic purpose. In this sense, AI is a function of liquidity in relation to capital, computation, and water. Financial speculation promotes the expansion of AI, while fresh water cools server farms and ultra-pure water cleans silicon wafers, which serve as the basic material for the manufacture of electronic components such as integrated circuits (chips) and solar cells. While the water runs: What stories emerge when the rather abstract system of profit meet the material costs of the thirst for AI? -Curatorial text by Helen Turner <img width="6048" height="4032" width_o="6048" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/759ea381d2d71ee843777731ca1c2bbda581dacf4a51bad4af51bfbbb2268a26/DSC_2263.JPG" data-mid="238625614" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/759ea381d2d71ee843777731ca1c2bbda581dacf4a51bad4af51bfbbb2268a26/DSC_2263.JPG" /> <img width="6177" height="4118" width_o="6177" height_o="4118" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c0ab5b3bd06aee8ce20030ba129ff94cb55e8ffeb74d0c3174a8b451ad5add0c/return-to-earth-dokumentation_Laila-Kaletta_2025_high-res_54.jpg" data-mid="238891973" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c0ab5b3bd06aee8ce20030ba129ff94cb55e8ffeb74d0c3174a8b451ad5add0c/return-to-earth-dokumentation_Laila-Kaletta_2025_high-res_54.jpg" /><img width="6177" height="4118" 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height="2879" width_o="1920" height_o="2879" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bb3b1deca2dd42a423218d53850d379031a99bd42d9ff713a119bdbe62c26464/small-E-WERK-Luckenwalde_Mensch-Maschine_19.09.25-Kathleen-Pracht-1936.jpg" data-mid="238892116" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bb3b1deca2dd42a423218d53850d379031a99bd42d9ff713a119bdbe62c26464/small-E-WERK-Luckenwalde_Mensch-Maschine_19.09.25-Kathleen-Pracht-1936.jpg" /><img width="6048" height="4032" width_o="6048" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a6d82cb713ab7bca9abf87eb930101e98818504fc616781fecf3b38cfbab2cd6/DSC_2256.JPG" data-mid="238625613" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a6d82cb713ab7bca9abf87eb930101e98818504fc616781fecf3b38cfbab2cd6/DSC_2256.JPG" /> Opening of Mensch Maschine: Return to Earth at E-WERK Luckenwalde with the JUNGE AKADEMIE of Akademie der Künste and E.ON Foundation on 19 September 2025. Photo: Kathleen Pracht. Eröffnung von Mensch Maschine: Return to Earth im E-WERK Luckenwalde mit der JUNGEN AKADEMIE der Akademie der Künste und E.ON Stiftung am 19. September 2025. Foto: Kathleen Pracht. Documenation photos by&nbsp;Laila Kaletta https://hsurae.com/Enter-the-wetware Wed, 01 Oct 2025 09:38:06 +0000 hsurae https://hsurae.com/Enter-the-wetware Enter the WETWAREA performance lecture where the machine speaks and the body drinks. An embodied encounter with artificial intelligence. Enter the Wetware invites you into an oracle of liquid circuits, where language leaks, glitches, and drips. Empathy is not found in sameness here, but in strangeness. The oracle speaks in tongues but the tongue is dry as a desert. 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