A commission by BMW at Westbund Shanghai 2023.

Exhibited at the BMW Lounge in Hall A of the West Bund Art Center in Shanghai, as part of Shanghai Biennale, at 9-Nov-2023.

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.

I mainly handled the coding content displayed on the screen, video editing, and with grapic designer Yidong, making the design of the glass decals. From simple sketches and coding frameworks to the final completion, it's been a truly fulfilling experience.