Abstract

Over the past decade, Lina Fan has explored ways of releasing animation from the cinematic frame and transforming movement into a spatial experience encountered bodily. From robotic installations to her latest work, Emotional Handscroll, her practice continually asks: Is technology the subject of the artwork, or a pathway toward the construction of a spatial experience?

The new work builds from accumulative hand-drawn marks, colour fields, and records of personal emotion. AI is treated not as a mere tool for image production, but as one element within a continuously evolving “generative field”—a site where images, algorithms, materials, bodies, and spatial conditions continually form new relationships, and where the meaning of the work gradually emerges through viewing, movement, and duration.

Emptiness is not absence. It is a relational space shaped by scale, rhythm, distance, duration, and perception. Emptiness itself carries force.

Speaker Bio

Lina Fan is an artist and researcher and a visiting scholar at Harvard FAS CAMLab. Her work explores generative relations among artificial intelligence, botanical systems, and psychological structures, examining how perceptions of life can be reorganized through AI-based moving-image and interdisciplinary media practices.

Event Information

• Free and open to the public
• June 12th (Friday)
• 12:00 – 1:30 PM ET
• This is an in-person event.

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Advanced RSVP required.
The event will be conducted in Mandarin Chinese.