Movement is the basic form of life. It exposes an interior state, passes between parts of a body, and travels across ecosystems made of many beings. When several agents move in relation to one another, patterns appear: synchrony, attraction, avoidance, drift, and temporary coherence.

My practice builds worlds around these moments, drawing from Artificial Life, swarm behavior, cybernetic art, and premodern cosmologies in which the environment is not a backdrop but a participant. I do not author every event. I establish constraints, relationships, and local rules, then allow environmental data, collaborating performers, audience presence, and the agents themselves to unfold the world formation. I am interested in what happens when my control is incomplete.

I approach cognition from a biogenic view: intelligence begins not with language, but with sensing, movement, coordination, adaptation, and the maintenance of a body. I am interested in movement-first, decentralized intelligence rather than semantic models of AI. A maze, a landscape, or a chain of mechanical vertebrae can be an agent as much as a fictional animal or humanoid character. What makes it seem alive is not its resemblance to an organism, but its ability to register change, turn outside forces into bodily behavior, and negotiate among different parts of itself.

Since 2021, I have developed a visual language drawn from animals, plants, bones, organs, and synthetic skins. The morphological gravity of my work lies in unstable identity, in life appearing through transition. Transfiguration becomes an external sign of anima.

I invent imaginary beings in the spirit of Borges, but give them behaviors rather than only descriptions. These collective bodies are never complete. They assemble, lose phase, adapt, and assemble again.

什么是双向注视

A private reference to the monocular that shaped a way of seeing years before painting, architecture, or media art entered the frame. Where the two fields cross, they resolve into a single dense form: exogenous gaze and endogenous gaze, arriving at the same point.

Also, an eye emerges in between an eclipse.

Further, from two fields’ overlap, a subject is highlighted. Yiou has a long-term creative interest in ecologies shaped by contextual relationships. No individual-environment dichotomy, in which environment is a backdrop; environment is composed of infinite agents in a relational web. Society is ecology; ecology is society. We are each other’s environment (read more).