{"686520":{"#nid":"686520","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Now showing on Media Bridge | Synthetic Ecologies: AI-Translated Matter in Architectural Media","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Library is proud to show a new piece from Hyojin Kwon and Nix Liu Xin on the Media Bridge, \u003Cem\u003ESynthetic Ecologies: AI-Translated Matter in Architectural Media.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe four-minute piece, which went live in November, is playing every hour at the ten-minute mark on Media Bridge, located between Price Gilbert and Crosland Tower.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout Synthetic Ecologies: AI-Translated Matter in Architectural Media\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERather than accelerating images,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ESynthetic Ecologies\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;asks \u201c\u003Cstrong\u003Ehow matter thinks\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u201d New Materialism treats matter as an active partner; design emerges where human intention intra-acts with things, datasets, models, and light. Authorship becomes orchestration, and every dataset a canon\u2014a politics of selection. Method, therefore, is ethics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe project authors a white model first, fixing space, camera, light, and motion as temporal logic. AI then enters as a translator, moving on rails of depth\/normal\/segmentation with flow consistency. The surface reveals signs of behavior\u2014gloss, scattering, porosity, accretion\u2014rather than mere style. We publish provenance\u2014sources and biases, node graphs and parameters, timelines and versions\u2014so choices are traceable and contestable, transferable to learning, practice, and public decision.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFrom plastic toward a synthetic ecology, the work declares architecture thinking with media. AI is not authority but a transparent amplifier; authorship is not surrendered.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESpanning the Library, the Media Bridge is a civic threshold of study and routine, a common ceiling shared day and night. Installed overhead, the flow of plastics becomes a sky that prompts daily audiences to reflect on circulation, responsibility, and bias. Open provenance turns the piece into a public manifesto, linking campus AI literacy and circularity agendas to civic practice. The work does more than show images; it proposes a public curriculum where data and decisions, materials and culture, negotiate in view of the community.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EArtist Bios\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHyojin Kwon\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;is an Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology and cofounder of\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EPre- and Post-\u003C\/em\u003E, a research-driven design practice based in Atlanta and Boston. Her work explores how digital media \u2014 including animation, simulation, and AI-assisted image workflows \u2014 can function as both generative and critical tools within architectural design. Situated within a post digital framework, her recent projects investigate material agency and synthetic ecologies, often translating computational processes into civic installations and experimental representations. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Brisbane, Tokyo Designers Week, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, and Atlanta Contemporary, and supported by institutions such as MacDowell, Art Omi, and Autodesk.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENix Liu Xin\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a spatial computing artist and director, Harvard graduate, and the founder \u0026amp; CEO of OI (Onceness Intelligence), an experiential-AI startup. He envisions a future where 4D\u2013AI interfaces enable everyone to record life moments, relive memories, and design immersive spatial experiences through intelligent 4D media.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe was named to the AACYF 30 Under 30 and has received accolades such as the Harvard Design Studies Domain Award, the CGarchitect 3D Awards, and the MIT AI Film Hack Award for Best Picture.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAdditionally, Nix was featured as an artist at the Lianzhou Photography Biennale. He also co-founded the HarvardXR Conference and the\u0026nbsp;Creative.Tech\u0026nbsp;Community.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"The four-minute piece, which went live in November, is playing every hour at the ten-minute mark on Media Bridge"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Library is proud to show a new piece from Hyojin Kwon and Nix Liu Xin on the Media Bridge, \u003Cem\u003ESynthetic Ecologies: AI-Translated Matter in Architectural Media.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Georgia Tech Library is proud to show a new piece from Hyojin Kwon and Nix Liu Xin on the Media Bridge, Synthetic Ecologies: AI-Translated Matter in Architectural Media."}],"uid":"28817","created_gmt":"2025-11-18 20:18:57","changed_gmt":"2025-11-18 20:19:47","author":"Jason Wright","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-11-17T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2025-11-17T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"678665":{"id":"678665","type":"image","title":"Screenshot-2025-11-18-at-3.08.51-PM.png","body":null,"created":"1763497147","gmt_created":"2025-11-18 20:19:07","changed":"1763497147","gmt_changed":"2025-11-18 20:19:07","alt":"Synthetic Ecologies: AI-Translated Matter in Architectural Media","file":{"fid":"262723","name":"Screenshot-2025-11-18-at-3.08.51-PM.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/11\/18\/Screenshot-2025-11-18-at-3.08.51-PM.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/11\/18\/Screenshot-2025-11-18-at-3.08.51-PM.png","mime":"image\/png","size":2194904,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/11\/18\/Screenshot-2025-11-18-at-3.08.51-PM.png?itok=iREYOccL"}}},"media_ids":["678665"],"groups":[{"id":"47240","name":"Georgia Tech Library"}],"categories":[{"id":"194606","name":"Artificial Intelligence"}],"keywords":[{"id":"190130","name":"Media Bridge"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"193655","name":"Artificial Intelligence at Georgia Tech"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}