Generative audiovisual installation with motion-tracking interaction, 2025–2026
Project Description
Life in Motion is a generative audiovisual environment that traces rhythm and pattern across scales the body cannot directly perceive — from the division of a single cell, to the swarming of a flock, to the orbital motion of planets and the looping behaviors of computational systems. The work treats these otherwise disparate phenomena as variations on a shared theme: matter and information in continuous transformation.
The project centers on data translation, using sensors, algorithms, and mapping to create scenes where biological processes and synthetic structures share the same audiovisual surface. Plants grow via L-system logic; particles flock and disperse; terrain folds and recedes; abstract geometries become organic forms, then dissolve. Sound is generated with the image, arising from the same underlying state.
Because the system is generative, no two passages unfold in exactly the same way. Each scene is a momentary configuration of an evolving environment, closer to a living organism or a shifting landscape than to a fixed composition. The viewer’s presence is part of that environment: a motion-tracking camera reads the body’s position and gesture, allowing visitors to alter the digital terrain, scatter swarms, or trigger the growth of new forms simply by moving through the space.
Life in Motion was first presented as a large-scale immersive projection at Ambi Space One inside Taipei 101 in 2025, where it filled a 360-degree projection environment for a continuously rotating audience. For its 2026 presentation at the Digital Arts Space of The Music Center in Los Angeles, the work has been re-staged as a one-on-one experience: a single visitor enters the space at a time, guided through an approximately fifteen-minute arc that moves between abstract and concrete states. The shift in scale — from collective spectacle to intimate encounter — reframes the work’s central question, asking how attention to rhythm changes when one is alone with the system rather than dispersed within a crowd.
Life in Motion uses rhythm as the thread that runs through the entire work, whether the pulse of a cell, the gathering and dispersal of a flock, the orbit of a planet, or the loops inside a program. As the viewer enters this environment, jointly shaped by bodily movement and the generative system, the line that once seemed to cleanly separate “organic” from “digital” begins to loosen, gradually shifting with motion and with time.
計畫介紹
《Life in Motion 動態生命》 是一件以生成式系統構築的影音裝置，試圖捕捉那些身體無法直接感知的節奏與律動 —— 從單一細胞的分裂、鳥群的聚散，到行星的軌道運行與電腦系統內部的迴圈行為。作品將這些尺度迥異的現象視為同一主題的不同變奏：物質與資訊持續變化的狀態。
作品以直接且即時的互動體驗來詮釋抽象的「資料轉譯」。透過感測器、生成演算法與推測性的對應關係，將生物過程與合成結構並置於同一個影音介面：植物以 L-system 的邏輯生長、粒子聚散漂移、地貌起伏推移，抽象的幾何在某些瞬間轉為可辨識的有機形態，又再度溶解。聲音與影像不只是配樂與畫面的關係，而是從同一個底層狀態中同步生成。
因為系統本身是生成式的，沒有任何兩段體驗會以完全相同的方式展開。每一個場景都是不斷演化中的環境的一次瞬時組態，更近似於一個生長中的生命體或一片不斷變動的地景，而非固定的作品。觀眾的存在本身就是這個環境的一部分：動態捕捉攝影機讀取身體的位置與動作，讓觀眾可以透過走動或姿態，重塑數位地形、驅散粒子群、或觸發新的形體生長。
《Life in Motion》於 2025 年首次在台北 101 双融域以大型沉浸式投影呈現，環繞一整個 360 度投影空間，供持續流動的觀眾進入體驗。2026 年於洛杉磯 The Music Center 旗下 Digital Arts Space 重新展出時，作品調整為一次一位觀眾的體驗：單一觀眾進入空間，由現場人員引導，在約十五分鐘的時間裡經歷一段在抽象與具象之間擺盪的旅程。從集體景觀到一對一的相遇，這次格式上的轉換，也重新提出了作品的核心提問：當一個人獨自面對系統、而非身處人群之中時，對節奏的感知會如何改變？
《Life in Motion》以節奏作為貫穿全作的共通線索，無論是細胞的脈動、群體的聚散、行星的運行，或是程式內部的迴圈。當觀眾走進這個由身體動作與生成系統共同構成的環境，會逐漸感覺到，「有機」與「數位」之間那條原以為清楚的界線，其實一直在隨著動作與時間鬆動、流變。
Press
- 台灣作品登洛杉磯藝文聖殿 紀柏豪以演算法創造體驗 （中央社）
- 紀柏豪《Life in Motion》沉浸式數位展 洛杉磯音樂中心登場（洛杉磯書院）
- Life in Motion — The Music Center
Credits
- Artist: Po-Hao Chi 紀柏豪
- Project Coordinator: Caitlin Lai 賴慧珈
- Visual Design: Pepepepebrick
- Sound Design ｜ Po-Hao Chi, Chian-Ru Yang
- Creative Development ｜ Ambi Artech Hub Project by Ambi Space 双融域
- Cultural Partner: Taiwan Academy in Los Angeles
- Production: ZoneSound Creative 融聲創意
展出記錄 Exhibition History
2025 Ambi Space One, Taipei 101, Taipei, Taiwan
2026 Digital Arts Space, The Music Center, Los Angeles, USA