Resonant Field

Installation Artist: Ariel Li

Sound Artist: Peifeng Cai

Resonant Field is currently presented as a work-in-progress video. The installation consists of a flexible audio system, adaptable to either a 16-channel Ambisonic surround or a stereo layout depending on exhibition needs, together with an Arduino-based programmable lighting system, stainless steel structures, and mirror surfaces.

The work explores shifting boundaries between closeness and distance, immersion and detachment. In a media-saturated world, perception is shaped by unseen systems, where seemingly autonomous actions become mediated negotiations between presence and control.

Within this perceptual field, sound and light fragment and reassemble, oscillating between intimacy and estrangement. Viewers navigate an unsettled flux, seeking their position amid rupture and reconstruction. The work asks how identity might be reclaimed when signals overlap, memories distort, and time feels incomplete. Ultimately, the installation is a shifting ground that mirrors contemporary conditions of connection and disconnection.