Image: Adam Hsieh, 'haunting horizons,' 2025, installation view, Good Grief Studios, 2025, image courtesy of the artist
Image: Adam Hsieh, 'haunting horizons,' 2025, installation view, Good Grief Studios, 2025, image courtesy of the artist
Image: Adam Hsieh, 'haunting horizons,' 2025, installation view, Good Grief Studios, 2025, image courtesy of the artist
As you wander and explore, are you reading the place, or is the place reading you? This interactive and immersive experience, haunting horizons, emerges from the artist's situated memories of his everyday walks along Nipaluna/Hobart's scenic waterfront, observed across different times of day and throughout the year. He fine-tunes a text-to-image diffusion model using his carefully curated, captioned, and deeply personal image-text data. This, alongside a generative sound piece crafted from line sketches of Kunanyi/Mount Wellington, has re-imagined the island landscape into something both familiar and uncanny. The AI-generated environment is constantly in flux, responding to our physical and emotional presence and fostering a continuous interplay between the island and its inhabitants, mediated by an intimate yet ambiguous dialogue that transcends time and space.
CREDITS
Adam Hsieh (concept development/art direction/production)
Adam Hsieh (concept development/art direction/production)
MATERIALS
Projector, speakers, motion sensor, computer with customised software
Projector, speakers, motion sensor, computer with customised software
DIMENSIONS
Variable
Variable
EXHIBITIONS
Between Realms, Dark Mofo (2025). Good Grief Studios, Nipaluna/Hobart, Australia. 5 - 15 Jun 2025.
Between Realms, Dark Mofo (2025). Good Grief Studios, Nipaluna/Hobart, Australia. 5 - 15 Jun 2025.