the interactive Experience

The initial video loops depict a relatively peaceful state, but when viewers push the nearby button, they trigger the shift into the dynamic "falcon attack" state.

When the apex predator attacks, it sends an instant shockwave through the entire display. The starlings scatter to elude and confuse the predator, the heart cell's pulse accelerates, and the molecular engines speed up.

Within each window, glowing data streams visualize dynamic changes in the invisible biological signals that allow the biological system at that scale to regulate itself and adapt to the disturbance.

After a few seconds, the display transitions into a "recovery" state as the engines quiet down, eventually looping back to the initial starting state.

Art + Science Connection

Developed during a 2025–26 residency at UT Austin’s Center for Dynamics and Control of Materials (CDCM), this work dramatizes my introduction to biophysics and its connections to control and information theory.

While classical physics explains how inert matter moves passively according to physical laws, biophysics reveals how living matter actively steers itself.

Through sensing its environment, feedback loops, and an innumerable number choices, every biological system, from a bird flock to a cellular motor, demonstrates that life actively directs its own destiny.