Unresolved
Kinetic Sound Sculpture, 2026
PLA, DC Motor, Fishing Wires, Microcontroller
Unresolved is a kinetic sound installation composed of eight autonomous mechanical agents surrounding a white cube at the center. Each individual continuously senses distance and reacts through local feedback. There is no central controller, no shared awareness, and no fixed destination—only continuous adjustment between bodies pulling and being pulled.
From this system, movement and sound emerge. As the agents operate, the central cube is dragged across a black mirrored surface, producing sharp, grating sounds through friction. The mechanical bodies repeatedly rise, fall, and collide, trapped within a physical tension they cannot fully escape.
Beneath them, the black mirrored surface reflects every movement while swallowing all traces. It witnesses the struggle, exhaustion, and conflict without retaining evidence of any of it. Everything that happens here is absorbed into the system's ongoing operation—witnessed, and forgotten.
The work explores unresolvedness as a condition of existence rather than a problem to solve. Viewers arrive, observe, and leave, yet the system continues running. The work does not offer resolution — it simply continues, pulling, being pulled, wearing itself out, beginning again.
Exhibition:
NYU Shanghai IMA Capstone Show, Shanghai, 2026-05-12
NYU Shanghai IMA Capstone Show, Shanghai, 2026-05-12