under godlight under
galaxy canyon beneath a cape
bewildered with stars
“bewildered with stars” is an excerpt from a poem written by Franny Choi, reimagined as a generative audiovisual installation created by artist & technologist Alida Sun.
The artwork is a multi-sensory meditation on migration and nature, exploring the concepts in various dimensions.
Sun transforms Choi’s poetry via programming and interactive projection mapping into an atmospheric, ever-changing constellation of light and sound echoing the migratory birds from Choi’s poem, “Fugue in DMZ/Frontera.” Sun’s choice of mapping as medium is uniquely suited to reclaiming cartography and conveying resilience from the artist’s lived experience of repeated migration and rootlessness: code and light can quickly adapt to or alter any space.
The work highlights poetry and generative art’s power to transcend the static and objectified, utilizing code as a living medium to illuminate interconnectedness between humans, nature, and technology.
bewildered with stars
An online and physical survey/group show of text-based physical artworks by TheVERSEverse in partnership with L'Avant Galerie and Librairie Métamorphoses.
This is Part 2 of an exhibition. Part 1 "Poème Objkt", a conversation between poetry and the visual arts brought to life through the liminal play of the physical and the digital, opened in October 2022 at L’Avant Galerie Vossen.
2023 Crypto Art Award Shortlist, The Lumen Prize.
