Signs of Water—Mirror / Kuan-Ju Wu (TW/USA), Ekaterina Kormilitsyna (AT), Yasuaki Kakehi (JP)/Photo: vog.photo

Signs of Water—Mirror

Kuan-Ju Wu (TW/USA), Ekaterina Kormilitsyna (AT), Yasuaki Kakehi (JP)

Signs of Water – Mirror explores water as a medium to reflect environmental meaning. An array of water plates, each with a mechanism to move floating objects, starts empty but gradually fills with serendipitously found artifacts from the venue. Sensor data triggers object movements, prompting viewers to notice hidden patterns and their correlation with the immediate environment. This dynamic interplay entangles water, objects, data, and reflections, questioning the creation and nature of meaning.

Bios

  • Ekaterina Kormilitsyna

    AU

    Ekaterina Kormilitsyna is a bioartist and researcher who focuses on topics of ethics and techno-natural futures. Her work dwells on network infrastructures, material mythologies and interspecies futurism; working anthropologically with communities around the world on sustainability and communal practices and global open-source biology spaces.

  • Kuan-Ju Wu

    TW, US

    Kuan-Ju Wu is a creative technologist, media artist and interaction designer who focuses on natural materials and phenomena. His practice revolves around research, innovation and collaborations with humans and non-humans.

  • Photo: Yasuaki Kakehi

    Yasuaki Kakehi

    JP

    Yasuaki Kakehi is an interactive media researcher and artist. After experiences at Keio University and MIT, he has been engaged in research, creation and education at the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo, since 2018.

    With a PhD in Interdisciplinary Information Studies, Kakehi develops interactive media that combine physical materials and phenomena with digital technology, expanding experiences through objects, the body and space. His work spans the fields of engineering, art and design, with exhibitions at SIGGRAPH, Ars Electronica Festival, YCAM, and ICC, among others.

    He has received numerous awards across various fields, including an Honorable Mention at the STARTS PRIZE 2022, the Excellence Award in the Art Division of the 23rd Japan Media Arts Festival, the Best Paper Award at ACM CHI 2017, and the Young Scientist Award by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology in 2014.