Environment
Ziyao Lin
Drifting Poetry explores the floating state of life through natural metaphors. Based on scientific visualizations, the project uses AI to model the forms of marine plankton, presenting them through poetry, video, and installation art. The project reinterprets the drifting behavior of plankton as a metaphor for the rootlessness and transience of human life in modern society. Visitors engage with 3D-printed models, dynamic projections, and AR to reflect on natural and social existence, where life is envisioned as a fleeting yet interconnected poem.
About The Artist
Ziyao Lin (b.1999) is an artist and researcher. Her work interrogates how technological systems can both alleviate and intensify the scarcities of contemporary life. Combining autoethnography with media experimentation, she struggles to resist accelerationism, evoking sensitivity toward what is missing, neglected, or emotionally impoverished. Her art does not offer solutions, but raises a question: In a world rich in technology, what becomes scarce?