Marlus 海明

2025 · Installation · Authorial

ElementAIs

Your movement, returned as fire, earth, air and water

The four elements as states in permanent mutation: the visitor's movement is returned in real time as elemental matter, with artificial intelligence acting as a creative accelerator.

ai · generative · TouchDesigner

The work starts from the four elements and from what is most essential in them: transformation. Fire, earth, air and water are not fixed images but states in permanent mutation, and it is this flow that the work puts into play. The visitor's movement is captured and returned in real time as elemental matter in constant metamorphosis, where each gesture triggers a new composition that never repeats.

At the center of the system, artificial intelligence works as a creative accelerator: it interprets the body, recombines natural references and generates, in fractions of a second, visual transformations that would be impossible to produce by hand at this speed and scale.

The work has taken two forms: a floor, at its first showing, TokenNation 2025; and the touch screen of the mirror interface, from the exhibition Isto Não é um Prompt onwards.