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.

In Circular Interface: Gaze, the conventional nine-grid structure is replaced by a set of AI-generated portraits sourced from thispersondoesnotexist.com. Each fictitious face is printed on a lenticular lens panel, so that as the viewer moves before it, those non-existent eyes seem to follow in return. The audience is drawn into an illusion of being watched—where the dynamic of gaze between subject and algorithm is inverted, and the observer becomes the observed. Within the grid, a spiral pattern supported by frosted acrylic evokes both the vortex of data flow and the self-circulating logic of digital vision. Along the metallic frame, fragments of pseudo-code are engraved like system comments or runtime logs. The work as a whole exudes a cold, pressurized sense of interface: each virtual portrait is simultaneously an identity fabricated by algorithms and a transparent apparatus of surveillance. Here, gaze is no longer a human relation, but a pervasive visual power constructed by artificial intelligence.