Altering Nature: Exploring Life in Computational Art

This exhibition is organized and funded by the Division of Emerging Interdisciplinary Areas (EMIA) and the Division of Arts and Machine Creativity (AMC) at HKUST, as well as the Computational Media and Arts (CMA) at HKUST (GZ). It offers new insights into the relationship between biology and computational art.

The participants are primarily PhD students and researchers from HKUST, HKUST (GZ), and Monash University, with academic support from Prof. Huamin Qu, Prof. Kang Zhang, and Prof. Jon McCormack. This exhibition is initiated by Ziwei Wu and Danlu Fei, with curator You Wang and designer Hanlu Ma, and features works by artists Ziwei Wu, Danlu Fei, Xinyu Ma, Xiaofu Jin, Yifang Wang, Burak Korkmaz, Wen You, Hanlu Ma, Mengying Du, Meng Yang, Jiagi Shi, Hengyu Meng, and Wanchao Su.

This exhibition features 10 artworks that combine cutting-edge approaches such as AI-generated content and data visualization with traditional artificial life (ALife) methods, including genetic algorithms and agent-based systems. Through diverse themes such as climate change, ecological crises, toxic food, and the possibilities of transformation and becoming “the other,” the artists explore and represent the concept of “Altering Nature.”

Exhibition Page: https://library.hkust.edu.hk/exhibitions/computational-art/