Presentation
A Pulse in the Stream 流息脉动
SessionArt of HPC Gallery
Description𝘈 𝘗𝘶𝘭𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 流息脉动 by Amy Karle (2025) 艾米·卡尔 is an interactive, large-scale artwork that visualizes the metabolism of an AI data center as public art. The work integrates real-time inputs: environmental conditions, building processes, server activity, and human heartbeats into a GPU-accelerated generative system that animates the full façade of the Beijing Digital Economy AIDC in Beijing, China. Data from sensing streams (e.g., power load, thermal flux, airflow, exterior weather, particulate levels, and participatory heart-rate sensors) compose evolving fields, waves, and harmonics that depict the physics of information flow. Generative linework “breathes” with the site, revealing otherwise invisible currents of energy, information, and human presence as a coherent, ever-changing flow. Perceptible pulses and synchronized “heartbeats” appear when on-site participants opt in with biometric sensors, layering and accreting into continually transforming visuals. As we generate and contribute to this data stream, we transform it - and in turn, it transforms us, reminding us that at the convergence of humans, machines, nature, and information, we stand at the threshold of an ever-expanding future, and we have a hand in shaping it.
By staging sensing → simulation → in-situ visualization in public space, the piece recasts the data center as an interface for collective intelligence, where the ethics and aesthetics of computation become visible and where our choices become the code that writes tomorrow.
www.amykarle.com
By staging sensing → simulation → in-situ visualization in public space, the piece recasts the data center as an interface for collective intelligence, where the ethics and aesthetics of computation become visible and where our choices become the code that writes tomorrow.
www.amykarle.com
Event Type
Art of HPC
TimeSunday, 16 November 20258:00am - 6:00pm CST
LocationArt of HPC - Plaza Lobby
Art of HPC
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