Lingyu Peng

Lingyu Peng, Yu Liang, Ying Zhang et al.

Cosmic 1001 is an interactive installation that transforms space exploration history into a speculative news experience. Participants first browse a news-based archive of major space events, then pose future-oriented questions or specify conditions such as year, celestial body, or mission name. In response, AI generates a future news item including a headline, article, narration, and visual media. These outputs are accumulated in the Future Tunnel, a shared visualization where individual stories form a collective landscape of possible futures. By combining historical space events with science fiction references, the installation explores a space between documentation and imagination, treating the future not as a fixed prediction but as a visible and discussable speculation.

Lingyu Peng, Wenbo Lu, Liying Long et al.

Western art has regarded The Thinker as a symbol of rational contemplation, while Eastern aesthetics has taken the Four Gentlemen, namely plum, orchid, bamboo, and chrysanthemum, as symbols of moral and spiritual cultivation. This paper presents Ink Spiral, a video installation that links these traditions through AI generated ink imagery. By transforming a rotating sculpture of The Thinker into the Four Gentlemen across thousands of frames, the work shifts between three dimensional sculpture and two dimensional ink, human introspection and natural symbolism. Ink Spiral turns fixed cultural icons into a fluid dialogue, inviting audiences to perceive cross cultural connection as a living, ambiguous, and endlessly interpretable creative state.