BOBBY HSIUNG, Mutual Metaphor, 2023, Art Installation & Performance, London

Simbiosys, 2023, St.James Church, Goldsmiths, London


Fortune-telling finds a contemporary echo in machine learning: both draw on accumulated knowledge to anticipate the unknown. 



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The installation brings fortune-telling and machine learning together as two ways of anticipating the unknown. In the human realm, water is imagined as a reservoir of the Earth’s memories, with a fortune-teller drawing insights and crystallising blessings through ice. In the machine realm, a welded steel structure invites visitors to speak into an ear-shaped microphone. Built with p5.js and the GPT API, it converts spoken questions into text and returns answers through voice, an LED display and a thermal printer, giving visitors something physical to take away. Black sand and ice sit alongside white floor tiles and steel, setting natural materials against an artificial environment. Through these encounters, the work explores how ritual and computation turn accumulated knowledge into predictions, and how belief takes shape around processes whose inner workings remain unseen.

➊Simbiosys, Sep 2023, St.James Church, Goldsmiths, London. Curated by Jessica Wolpert
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Simbiosys, 2023, St.James Church, Goldsmiths, London
BOBBY HSIUNG

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         Art
After Eden, 2026, The Crypt Gallery, London●
LOLLIPOP for HSIUNG®, 2025, London○
DROPS for HSIUNG®, 2025, London●
Prophecy, 2024, London●
our slanted. deserted. pursuit, 2024, hARTSlane, London●
Mutual Metaphor, 2023, London●
Monument, 2022, London●
New Deity, 2022, London●
Flower, 2022, London●

         Design
THE EEL PROJECT, Visual Identity, 2026●
HSIUNG®, Visual Identity, 2025●
Lighthouse Art, Visual Identity, 2024●
Musicians in the UK, Visual Identity, 2024●
S**tboo Studio, Visual Identity, 2023●
XIAN Dimension, Visual Identity, 2021●Founder of HSIUNG® and THE EEL PROJECT CIC, 
aka Bobby Zhaocheng Xiong, 
based in London

Artist, curator and multidisciplinary designer whose practice spans interactive installations, digital media, moving image and visual communication. Drawing on East Asian cultural references and speculative technologies, his art explores spirituality, posthumanism and belief systems through immersive environments and participatory experiences. With a background in computational arts and industrial design, his design work extends across visual identity, photography, print and exhibition environments, bringing together digital experimentation and physical production. His work has been presented at the V&A Digital Design Weekend, Creative Machine and the 100+ Asia Art Season, and he was shortlisted for the Lumen Prize.

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