Evolution | an Immersive Audiovisual Installation about the Vitality of Inorganic Material

Evolution is an audio-visual performance and installation celebrating the vitality of inorganic materials, inspired by the material’s self-organising behaviours in Cymatics. Featuring a live moving image and a quadraphonic system, it provides a digital-analog self-organising system that allows the provided luminous powder and the sonic landscape to evolve together. The audience will be taken on a journey where they are scaled down, and they will experience the vibrational environment as the powders do.
This piece aims to present the emergence of “lifeform” in the material, and the complex interrelationship and entanglement with the sonic environment. We thus hope to provoke a new perception of non-living substances and a reconsideration of our relationship with them.
Co-director: Bryan Yueshen Wu, Ke Peng
Developed at Royal College of Art White City
Project advisors: David Meckin, Pietro Bardini,
Special thanks Iklectik Artlab, Ronnie Deelen, Matt Lewis
2023, Evolution
HD Live Moving Image, Quadraphonic Sound, Projection, Transducers, Acrylic, Luminous Powder, White Sand, LED Strip, Infinite Duration