As early as the time when records of human history began, humans had started to imagine the craziest and most absurd concepts about flight. So, have they conducted the most meticulous thoughts and experiments?  Flying means reexperiencing height, breadth, and velocity. Jiayu's new work, Wings of Life, generates virtual natural scenery through machine learning, offering the audience a bird's-eye perspective and expanding their fantasies of flight.

Once the audience enters the space, Kinect Azure will immediately detect their arms and hands waving. In this way, the audience can portray the scenes of the sky in the image. Their arms push aside the cloud mist as if two wings of a bird, causing great waves in the sea of clouds. In this two-layered space, the audience will perceive the world from different perspectives, both from the birds' and humans' viewpoints, while another unknown dimension remains partly visible and partly invisible. Thus, the perspective shifts between the bird and the person, bringing more profound thoughts to the observer.

A space where technology becomes the medium through which people move between the real and the surreal, the grounded and the airborne. By blending interactive spatial systems with algorithmically generated imagery, the artwork enables people to experience flight as an embodied traversal across perceptual dimensions.

It is not flight as fantasy, but as a renewed capacity to feel, to sense, and to re-enter nature from the data port.

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