THE CITY OF GENIUS
BY LULU LI
WHERE IMAGINATION BECOMES REALITY
The collection has been created ‘from bits to atoms’ via the artist’s AI explorations and pulls from exaggerated digital volumes and minimalist Zen references. Hybrid functionality is key, as is a deep appreciation for workwear and casualwear.
LULU LI
Lulu Li is a multifaceted cross-disciplinary designer and artist.
Her practices span many fields, including conceptual art, visual art, public art installations, interactive media, generative art, social innovation, curation, research, and concept development. She works with mediums such as text, context, icons, symbols, codes, objects, body, space, sounds, images, machine learning, gestures, puns, and parodies. She strives to be a capable conduit and storyteller by cultivating sensitivity and attentive listening to bring hidden elements into realization.
EXHBITION
Housed in a one-way mirror, the neighborhood explored light, reflection, and perception, evoking Lulu Li’s creative journey from AI pixel, to a physical, wearable manifestation of her imagination.
MONCLER X LULU LI
COLLECTION
The collection has been created ‘from bits to atoms’ via the artist’s AI explorations and pulls from exaggerated digital volumes and minimalist Zen references. Hybrid functionality is key, as is a deep appreciation for workwear and casualwear.
An NFT art project about cosmic life origin.
"Pan": "all", "Sperma": "seed".
The project is a visual exploration of the concept of panspermia, which is the hypothesis that life on Earth originated from microorganisms or chemical precursors of life present in outer space. The project comprises a series of digital artworks depicting alien life forms and their environments. The artworks are created using a combination of generative art techniques and hand-crafted elements. The project is intended to spark conversations about the origin of life and the possibility of life existing beyond Earth. It is a journey of discovery, a journey of understanding, and a journey of imagination.
Cosmic life origin is one of the hardest questions that demands persistent attention. Often when star gazing, one’s imagination zooms into the “future” while we look back into billions of years old light phenomena. Future-looking visions, fiction, fantasies, and even dreams are always based on contemplation, and reprocesses of the past, especially a metaphysical past. Mahayana Buddhism has illustrated a unique and broad view of life phenomenon as a whole and its working mechanism. The panspermia art project is fusing Buddhist metaphysical views and scientific hypotheses together, creating a fantastical world of cosmic life forms, hinting at some consensus between two seemingly vast different views.
These life forms are generated with self-trained machine learning models - StyleGAN2. by working with the machine’s “mind” - “the latent space” - a multi-dimensional mathematical space where semantic vectors of what’s “learned” are registered and stored. - for lack of a better metaphor, it’s like deep diving into the cosmos’ primordial soup, where an abundance of life forms are found with constant startlements.
The endless variations of something “likeness”, something“could be”, something “bizarre and freaky”, something “completely unrecognizable” are all tucked away in nooks and cranks of the machines’ sub-consciousness, like millions of neurons that are in constant fluctuation and waiting for some clearer emergencies. After experimenting with it I find the vast riches of probabilities and possibilities easily overload human perceptive faculties and collapse our categorical way of thinking. I wonder: does the universe “creates” in a similar way? Or does the universe “thinks" in this way? Or do androids “dream” in this way?
What I encountered in “latent space walk” has showered me how mother nature has always shown me: the strangest life form spurs, emerges, crossbreeds, evolves, mutates, and trespasses “domain”, “kingdom”, “phylum”, “class”, “order”, “family”, “genus”, species boundaries in constant motion as if they following strange “selfless”, “non-differentiated” “collaborative” code or protocol at a very fundamental level at beginning of genesis. what's regarded as "alien", "xeno", "astrobiologial" only reflects our anthropocentric limitation of sense-making.
No matter how exotic, bizarre, eccentric, or even appear so deformed that un-recognizable to the common eyes, in Buddha’s gaze all life forms are inherited with illuminating seeds within, which are sentient resonances of the whole.
"Pan": "all", "Sperma": "seed".
The project is a visual exploration of the concept of panspermia, which is the hypothesis that life on Earth originated from microorganisms or chemical precursors of life present in outer space. The project comprises a series of digital artworks depicting alien life forms and their environments. The artworks are created using a combination of generative art techniques and hand-crafted elements. The project is intended to spark conversations about the origin of life and the possibility of life existing beyond Earth. It is a journey of discovery, a journey of understanding, and a journey of imagination.
Cosmic life origin is one of the hardest questions that demands persistent attention. Often when star gazing, one’s imagination zooms into the “future” while we look back into billions of years old light phenomena. Future-looking visions, fiction, fantasies, and even dreams are always based on contemplation, and reprocesses of the past, especially a metaphysical past. Mahayana Buddhism has illustrated a unique and broad view of life phenomenon as a whole and its working mechanism. The panspermia art project is fusing Buddhist metaphysical views and scientific hypotheses together, creating a fantastical world of cosmic life forms, hinting at some consensus between two seemingly vast different views.
These life forms are generated with self-trained machine learning models - StyleGAN2. by working with the machine’s “mind” - “the latent space” - a multi-dimensional mathematical space where semantic vectors of what’s “learned” are registered and stored. - for lack of a better metaphor, it’s like deep diving into the cosmos’ primordial soup, where an abundance of life forms are found with constant startlements.
The endless variations of something “likeness”, something“could be”, something “bizarre and freaky”, something “completely unrecognizable” are all tucked away in nooks and cranks of the machines’ sub-consciousness, like millions of neurons that are in constant fluctuation and waiting for some clearer emergencies. After experimenting with it I find the vast riches of probabilities and possibilities easily overload human perceptive faculties and collapse our categorical way of thinking. I wonder: does the universe “creates” in a similar way? Or does the universe “thinks" in this way? Or do androids “dream” in this way?
What I encountered in “latent space walk” has showered me how mother nature has always shown me: the strangest life form spurs, emerges, crossbreeds, evolves, mutates, and trespasses “domain”, “kingdom”, “phylum”, “class”, “order”, “family”, “genus”, species boundaries in constant motion as if they following strange “selfless”, “non-differentiated” “collaborative” code or protocol at a very fundamental level at beginning of genesis. what's regarded as "alien", "xeno", "astrobiologial" only reflects our anthropocentric limitation of sense-making.
No matter how exotic, bizarre, eccentric, or even appear so deformed that un-recognizable to the common eyes, in Buddha’s gaze all life forms are inherited with illuminating seeds within, which are sentient resonances of the whole.
