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Digital Wishing Tree Demo Video

The Digital Wishing Tree (2024) is an interactive art experience that invites participants to share their hopes and aspirations for a future with AI companion robots. Using a keyboard, participants create digital wish cards and hang them on a virtual wishing tree displayed on a monitor. This participatory installation fosters a collective exploration of humanity's evolving relationship with AI, blending technology with personal and communal imagination.

  • Hyeyoung Maeng
    Director
  • Project Type:
    Experimental
  • Runtime:
    60 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    July 1, 2024
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Hyeyoung Maeng

Hyeyoung Maeng is an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work bridges traditional painting techniques, digital media, and interactive installations. With a foundation in Korean Bunche painting, she integrates contemporary technologies to explore themes of identity, human-AI interaction, and cultural aesthetics. Her practice is deeply informed by Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy, emphasizing process, multiplicity, and the invisible forces of creation. Maeng’s internationally exhibited works, such as Non-Human Ontology + AI Humanity and The Digital Wishing Tree, challenge the boundaries between traditional and experimental art forms, offering critical insights into the convergence of humanity and technology. Currently an Assistant Professor at California State University, Fresno, she continues to innovate through her teaching, research, and creative practice, fostering inclusive and interdisciplinary exploration in the arts.

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