WORK
Circular Interface: Biomimicry
INFO
Installation
Aluminum Profiles / Aluminum Connectors / Custom Aluminum Plates / UV-Printed Acrylic Panels / Circular Brush / Nylon Belt Brush / POM Sheet / Oblique-Coil Contact Springs / Screws / Hooks
100 × 100 × 4 cm
Edition of 3 + 2 AP
2025
DESCRIPTION
Circular Interface consists of eight custom-built structural units. Each unit is assembled from aluminum profiles and CNC-milled aluminum panels forming a nine-grid framework. The front surface of each panel is precisely engraved with the Chinese character for Like (赞), echoing the ubiquitous Like button across social media. The nine grids are joined by multi-screw aluminum connectors, maintaining a strict and modular geometry — the structure resembles both a standardized social-media interface and the barred window of a cell. On the reverse side, a milled circular barbed-wire pattern serves as a visual emblem, hinting at the hidden mechanisms of control behind the interface. Beneath the seemingly gentle surface of social imagery lies a field of surveillance, discipline, and partitioned vision. Together, the eight units form a closed loop — a structural model of algorithmic circulation — enclosing the viewer within the space of the interface itself.
Circular Interface: Biomimicry takes the circular chat interface of GPT’s advanced voice mode as its primary visual prototype, distributing this symbolic form of dialogue across a nine-grid structure to form a visual matrix of AI-generated interfaces. Surrounding each circular interface are white, inward-facing ring brushes of varying sizes—like a cluster of biomimetic sensory pores that oscillate between organic tactility and mechanical precision.
Along the aluminum frame, a white nylon belt brush coils and loops around, resembling a writhing, worm-like organism. The entire installation presents a state of copulation between social media and artificial intelligence: AI-generated images, videos, and interfaces proliferate virally across social networks, spreading in a biomimetic posture where the distinction between the real and the artificial becomes increasingly indistinct.





