Post-human Spectacle
Post-human is the idea that humanity can be transformed, transcended, or eliminated either by technological advances or the evolutionary process. Inspired by a novel about post-human by Dung Kai-Cheung, Icy Lai curate this music performance titled Post-human Spectacle in 2022.
Collaborating with composer Austin Leung, Li transformed his cityscape photos into audio reactive visual in Touch Designer for the performance.
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Also, he used machine learning method, styleGAN2 to be specific, to make his cityscape photos appear more ambiguous for the audience. Through the window shape projection, Li created a future Hong Kong city manipulated by machine.
POST-HUMAN SPECTACLE
Curator and Director – Icy Lai
Production Company – FIRST HALF Arts in Concept Limited
Music Composed by Austin Leung
Visual/Image (for Chapter One and Two) – Gerry Li
THE POSTHUMAN CITY
2022
Single-channel projected video