Dissolution
Category
AI
HCI
Location
New York
Timeline
Jan 2026 - May 2026
Collaborator
Nora Lan
Info
Dissolution is an interactive installation exploring how AI and data systems deconstruct human identity, transforming individuals into fragments of information, categories, and machine-readable abstractions. Through CRT displays, computer vision, real-time data processing, and physical circuitry, the work examines the distance between who we are and how computational systems perceive us.
As a collaborating artist and designer, I led the installation’s physical and visual development, including the CRT hardware system, circuitry, TouchDesigner environment, and real-time visual experience, while collaborating closely on the integration of AI, facial recognition, and data-processing systems.
Final outcome
Technical Iterations
Reflections
This project pushed me beyond my usual design practice and required me to work much more deeply with physical hardware, circuitry, computer vision, and real-time systems. Building and troubleshooting the CRT setup was one of the biggest technical challenges, but overcoming those constraints gave me much more confidence in translating a conceptual idea into a functioning physical installation.
Because of the limited production timeline, I was not able to develop the installation at the scale I originally imagined, and I continue to see it as an ongoing project rather than a finished piece. More importantly, working directly with data extraction, recognition systems, and AI gave me a more critical understanding of how computational systems interpret people, and how easily human identity can be reduced into categories, measurements, and information.
