The interactive installation “I love it here, but I don’t know where I am” has set the story against the background of the co-existence of human beings with “the space of artificial life”. In this world, human beings lived in mutual dependence with the melting ball-like creatures and migrated, socialized
and mated with them. In this world, the boundaries between truth and fiction, biological and artificial were blurred.

The work consisted of the interactive installation and videos.

the interactive installation simulated human beings inside artificial life through interactions.

The device part is a space composed of cloth, sensors, and mechanical push rods.When a person enters, the sensors distributed on the ground will analyze according to the trajectory and quantity of the person, so that the wall can make different interactive feedbacks, simulating the “cold” softness of the creation.

The video showed repeatedly the sunset, migration of swans, Kecak dance, the busy traffic and other images of low quality with the play mark, trying to express the correlation between the stitched images and the 3d model and the metaphor of actions of living things and artifacts.

I’ve screened natural elements in the 3d model, leaving only mountains and rivers and the sky. The texture of the model was low-quality images (sunset, swans’ migration, etc.) generated by repeated reposting on the network. These simplified visual elements could directly trigger associations; such a process was similar to our information receiving and re-organizing on the Internet. I visualized this association process to the 3d space to simulate the existence of the space of thinking.