Park Jiwon

This work is a generative art project that explores the organic relationship between the audience, the museum, and society through the symbolic figure of the “blue bird,” inspired by the site-specific experience of Total Museum and Ayako Rokkaku’s exhibition . While the “blue bird” is commonly understood as a symbol of happiness sought externally, this work redefines it not as a fixed entity, but as a state that emerges through interactions between subjects. The audience, in this framework, is both a seeker of the museum as the blue bird and a source of vitality that animates it, while the museum itself becomes a blue bird that delivers healing and hope to individuals within the vast “mountain range” of society.

Connection to the Hackathon / Exhibition Dataset
The work visualizes a cold social environment (mountain range) as the initial condition of the simulation, based on “daily climate measurement data” (sub-zero temperatures and snowfall records) collected during the exhibition period. Within this barren landscape, the movement of audience members (particles) converging toward the museum (target)—conceived as a sanctuary of light—is combined with Ayako Rokkaku’s signature fluorescent pink. This translates the harsh “winter” indicated by the climate data into the energy of an “artistic spring” that emerges in real time through rendering.

Artistic Intent and Interpretive Framework

Key Elements (Metaphorical Mapping)

1. Target = Museum
   Defined as a luminous central core toward which audiences are drawn. It functions as the blue bird of society, offering direction within darkness.
2. Particles = Audience
   Conceived as numerous agents moving toward the museum as the blue bird. From the museum’s perspective, they also function as blue birds that complete the space.
3. Mountains = Society
   Established as the vast terrain in which particles are born and trace complex trajectories of life—a background where chaos and order coexist.

Method of Interpretation and Translation

• Beginning: Orientation within Society (Boids Simulation)
  Audience members (blue birds), generated across the social landscape (mountains), form flocks and converge toward the luminous center of the museum (target). This stage symbolizes the intellectual and emotional journey of individuals seeking meaning through art.
• Middle: Transition and Settlement (Transition)
  Upon reaching the museum, these agents experience intense inspiration, explode, and descend back to the ground, leaving behind unique artistic traces (seeds) within themselves.
• End: Flourishing of Flow (Line Growth)
  The settled seeds return to society, yet their trajectories continue as uninterrupted lines (waves), gradually permeating the entire social landscape with the warm color palette of Ayako Rokkaku. Even missed encounters or fleeting moments do not disappear, but become part of a larger social flow.

Rationale for the Chosen Format
The relationship between audience and museum is understood not as a fixed image, but as a continuously evolving dynamic system. A simulation—generated differently at every moment through mathematical algorithms—was considered the most suitable medium for expressing the chance encounters of blue birds across the social terrain and the enduring traces they leave behind.

Production Process

• Establishment of Symbolic System
  Based on the experience of visiting the museum and an analysis of the lyrics of , a reciprocal blue bird model connecting audience–museum–society was constructed.
• Philosophical Co-Thinking with AI (Concept Building)
  Through in-depth dialogue with a large language model (Gemini), the sense of disconnection and fatigue experienced as a curator was transformed into a positive aesthetic of “a flow that continues even without direct contact.”
• Vibe Coding
  Abstract metaphors (social mountains, audience flight, museum luminosity) were articulated in natural language and immediately translated into Three.js-based WebGL code, forming a human–AI co-creative process.
• Calibration of Visual Materiality
  The choreography of audience movement was designed using a modified Boids algorithm, while UnrealBloomPass was employed to physically render the healing luminosity of the museum.
• Media Optimization
  A real-time 4K rendering and recording system in a 9:16 aspect ratio—optimized for short-form media aesthetics—was constructed to produce the final output.

Technical Description

Tools, Programs, Models, and Workflow

• Development & Rendering: HTML5, JavaScript, Three.js (WebGL), dat.GUI (real-time co-development through vibe coding with Gemini)
• AI Partnership: Gemini (concept development, philosophical discourse, and visual translation as a co-creative agent)
• Workflow: natural language prompting → real-time browser rendering → parameter calibration via GUI → in-browser 4K direct capture

Image / Video / Text Generation Method
This work is a fully algorithm-based generative artwork created without external resources.

• Audience Swarm Algorithm: A modified Boids algorithm calculates the trajectories of thousands of audience particles interacting between society (mountains) and the museum (target).
• Dimensional Transformation Logic: A physical transition system converts the kinetic energy of particles moving in 3D space into 2D line data.
• Growth Simulation: By combining trigonometric functions with a temporal axis, the diffusion of artistic experience into society is modeled as a form of botanical growth.

Editing and Post-production
No external video editing software was used. Instead, a 9:16 ultra-high-resolution 4K (2160×3840) .webm video was directly rendered and exported within the simulation environment using the MediaRecorder API. This technical decision was made to preserve the inherent purity of the medium and the immediacy of real-time data.