NOAA
→Ground Station Series
→The 10th West Bund Art Design Art Fair X BMW: Emotional Nexus, 2023
→Cosmos Archaeology, Shanghai Astronomy Museum, 2024
Video Installation
Artist Xin Liu has been tracking several decommissioned satellites, “NOAA”, drifting in space since 2020. She reinterprets the received data into audile signals and images to communicate with them. Like the thought experiments in Valentino Braitenberg’s Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology, these vehicles slowly came to embody love, logic, manifestations of foresight, creative thinking, personality, and free will in the eyes of the artist. In this BWM commission, the artist imagined a cosmic dance of countless orbiting vehicles in her dazzling installation.
2023
267.8 x 278.2 x 275cm
Metal, Neon
- publisher's synopsis on <Vehicles Experiments in Synthetic Psychology> by Valentino Braitenberg
How are they certain, from one image to another, this is the world? Does the turmoil on this planet sadden them?