2025｜
Shanghai Urban Space Art Season

At Fuxing Island,
「Raiden INST」 brings forth a digital exhibition focusing on the city, the body, and data perception.

For the 2025 Shanghai Urban Space Art Season (SUSAS), we are presenting the digital curatorial projects 「Quantum Apparition」,「Tunneling」, and「Where is Q-Baby」. Through visual observation, physical engagement, and AR interaction, the audience is invited to enter a world of quantum perception. Continuing Raiden INST’s ongoing research into “digital curation” and “bodily experience,” these three sets of works attempt to redistribute our modes of perception in public spaces, empowering the audience to become co-authors of the experience.

Exhibition Items

Quantum Apparition

  • The Ghost of Light

    Zach Lieberman

    A ghost image emerges from the movement of light—an enigmatic figure unfolding within time and space. It hides and reveals itself, drifting and intersecting, dispersing and re-forming. Humanity has sought to understand and master light: spinning myths, devising techniques, gazing at the vast cosmos, and probing the microscopic unknown. As a leading figure in computer-generated art, Zach Lieberman employs code to conjure this optical ghost, resonating with the mysteries of the quantum world.

    Zach Lieberman

    A New York–based artist, educator, and programmer, and the co-founder of openFrameworks and the School for Poetic Computation. He is currently an adjunct associate professor at the MIT Media Lab. Lieberman is known for integrating human gestures with interactive technologies to create code-based immersive installations and performative audiovisual experiences. His works have received the Golden Nica at the Ars Electronica Festival and the Interactive Design of the Year from the Design Museum London, and have been exhibited at institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

  • Hub · FUXING

    Wang Yi

    Consciousness Collider takes inspiration from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), using digital imagery to simulate particle collision experiments. It stages the transformation of particles into streams of data as they move and collide. Meanwhile, as coordinated lighting “pierces” the virtual surface, the surrounding space shifts into a constantly changing topological structure. Through the spectacle of hadron collisions, the work becomes a metaphor for philosophical inquiry into perception and existence, constructing a dialogue between cognition and space under the guise of scientific experiment.

    WANG Yi

    Born in 1991 in Shanghai, received his MFA in 2016 from the Studio of New Figuration in the Department of Oil Painting at the China Academy of Art.
    His practice begins with painting and expands across multiple media including sculpture, collage, text, and installation, exploring the possibilities of abstraction beyond questions of style. Wang proposes the concept of “Grand Geometry”—an artistic vision that employs abstract forms to respond to themes such as nature, the city, historical culture, and social structures. Through this visual language, he seeks to map the past, present, and future of human society.

  • Aquarium (New Cycle)

    Marpi Studio

    Aquarium (New Cycle) is an alien encounter simulation, allowing people to interact with bio-mechanical digital creatures.

    Powered by custom-built software, the installation continuously generates unique, cosmic lifeforms, seemingly machine-like and extraterrestrial, yet organically familiar. Biologically inspired by the ornate, spiny beauty of lionfish, the hybrid flora-and-fauna qualities of seadragons, and the hypnotic patterns of cuttlefish, these beings form a surreal and ever-evolving digital taxonomy.

    The audience’s movements are captured by infrared motion sensors and transformed into digital avatars. This allows them to reach out to the virtual creatures, which in turn reach back in response. This creates a layered interaction—where time, space, algorithms, and embodied perception converge—and where each audience member receives a unique experience shaped by the moment and their interactions.

    Marpi Studio

    Marpi Studio is an interdisciplinary art team focused on creating and simulating interactive extraterrestrial lifeforms and ecosystems through programming and artistic experimentation. Their work is inspired by the complexity of the natural world and the boundless possibilities of futuristic realms.
    Using custom code, they build vibrant, living digital ecosystems that invite the audience to engage with digital species, systems, and processes. The audience is encouraged to co-create—where their movements and behaviors actively shape the physical characteristics of the artwork, unfolding in playful and unexpected ways.

  • Consciousness Collider

    Luo Xi

    Consciousness Collider takes inspiration from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), using digital imagery to simulate particle collision experiments. It stages the transformation of particles into streams of data as they move and collide. Meanwhile, as coordinated lighting “pierces” the virtual surface, the surrounding space shifts into a constantly changing topological structure. Through the spectacle of hadron collisions, the work becomes a metaphor for philosophical inquiry into perception and existence, constructing a dialogue between cognition and space under the guise of scientific experiment.

    LUO Xi

    Luo Xi is a German-born Chinese digital creator. He graduated from the Media Arts program at the Offenbach University of Design in Germany, and has worked as a digital artist and animation director at leading international 3D studios including Aixsponza, Acht, and The Marmalade. His practice focuses on conceptual and visual frontiers, employing procedural techniques to push the expressive boundaries of digital art. In 2022, he co-founded 6AM Studio in Shanghai and Berlin, dedicated to research and cross-disciplinary innovation in digital art.

Exhibition Items

Where is Q-Baby？

Introduction

Where is Q-Baby? is an interactive art project that combines augmented reality (AR) with urban exploration. By scanning QR codes through a WeChat Mini Program, visitors can meet six characters—Rula, Papi, Dida, Gulu, Kaku, and Momo—scattered across the Fuxing Island exhibition area. Each encounter invites playful interaction, photo-taking, and the unlocking of animations. An AR poster based on the exhibition’s main visual adds another layer to the journey, where a simple wave of the hand sets light particles in motion, opening up further possibilities of discovery.

Exhibition Items

Tunnelling

Introduction

Tunneling is an inflatable interactive light installation. As the audience steps into the space, a “photon” is released into the pipeline, racing swiftly along its path. As the light travels, it illuminates celestial symbols embedded within the inner walls, revealing them one by one. In quantum physics, quantum tunneling refers to the phenomenon in which particles can cross conventional energy barriers, as if passing through an invisible channel. This installation simulates such a phenomenon, while tracing the letters of “SUSAS” through the architectural structure—merging the real and the virtual, the visible and the hidden.