Duo diploma exhibition: Ting-Chun Liu and Sayaka Kuramochi

Technology not only steers our praxis in the context of artistic practices but also provides new conceptual frameworks and perspectives in relation to making. Through research and fieldwork, Ting-Chun Liu and Sayaka Kuramochi's duo exhibition opens a dialogue on how technologies are made and how they reflect on our understanding of knowledge and identity. The outcomes of their investigations and inspirations are presented as an installation that fuses electronics, video, and
text-based expressions.

Sayaka Kuramochi's primary interest lies in how stones, minerals, and crystals transcend their status as mere "silent beings" to influence the development of human creativity, technology, religion, and cultural arts. More specifically, she has focused on what people have perceived in stones and the meanings and aesthetics they have attributed to them, conducting research and
fieldwork based on these inquiries. This encompasses a wide range beyond the physical qualities of stones, including seemingly unrelated connections between modern technology and geology, lingering traces of stone worship in her native Japan, the digitization of gravestones driven by social issues, and phenomena such as the recent rise of painted stones as a viral trend.

Ting-Chun Liu's practice begins with a simple question: How does artificial intelligence create an image? This inquiry stems from a lack of graphic cards for AI-related experiments, prompting a deeper investigation into how graphics processors are made. The outcome is an understanding from an artist working with AI, making sense of the industrial and geopolitical connections that
support the rise of transformer-based AI. Which extent to the inner workings of diffusion models, examining how their distinctive aesthetic qualities are shaped and constrained by material limitations, algorithmic logic, and political infrastructures. These ideas are embodied in a feedback machine that generates both heat and moving images.