At the “Memory” gallery on the first floor of the ALIEN Art Centre, Reassembled Memories: Reborn is presented as part of the Video Sandbox Project. Framed by the concept of the “sandbox,” the project positions the exhibition space as an experimental field for uncertainty, imagination, and emerging image practices.
Set within a former telegraph office, the “Memory” gallery reflects a historical site of transmission while resonating with contemporary shifts of memory into cloud systems, algorithms, and digital networks.
Within this context, Reassembled Memories: Reborn explores how memory is reconfigured through contemporary technologies, where images no longer only record reality but actively generate and reshape experience. The work asks how we are remembered—and in what form we continue to exist—within an age of continuous data accumulation and computational image-making.
Reassembled Memories: Reborn
"As long as I keep using these memories for generation, will they eventually be remembered by big data?"
Reassembled Memories: Reborn originates from a project that uses images of a deceased pet dog and the memories shared with it as source material for massive AI image generation. Through this process, the project attempts to engrave the dog’s existence and memory into the big data that resembles a human collective consciousness.
This work utilizes the hallucination and iterative nature of AI as core creative elements. The iterative trait appropriates the underlying mechanism of machine learning: in the contemporary process of AI data collection and model training, every material input, textual connection, and generation outcome by the user is a process of merging with big data, transforming into nutrients for future model iterations. This characteristic of AI data inheritance and self-iteration becomes a vehicle for memory at this very moment. Human memory is unreliable—it fades, and it becomes fragmented. When AI becomes the carrier of memory, it feels as though memory itself has found a way to be carried even further. Meanwhile, the phenomenon of hallucination makes the AI appear to possess an independent consciousness, as if it is offering an alternative interpretation after sharing my memories, or perhaps granting me a dream to piece together my missing fragments of recollection. Within this space, the boundaries between dream, memory, and reality grow increasingly blurred.
｜Artist｜
Ding, Hao-Yi graduated with a bachelor's degree in animation and design, and went on to earn his master's degree from the Institute of Animation and Film Aesthetics at National Tainan University of the Arts, majoring in Interactive Media. His artistic practice primarily centers on new media art and installation art, exploring how to integrate technology, interactivity, and moving images within contemporary art creation.
During his undergraduate studies, he focused on visual storytelling techniques, including animation dynamics, storyboarding, and composition. In the early stages of his master's program, he expanded into interactive installations, researching the intersection of video and interactivity in creative art. More recently, alongside the rise of artificial intelligence, he has integrated generative AI into his artistic practice to examine the multi-faceted questions arising from the AI boom. Moving forward, he continues to combine technology with video and fine art, aiming to use creative expression to interpret and present his own perspectives within a rapidly changing world.
｜Information｜
Reassembled Memories: Reborn
Year: 2026
Medium: Video, video installation, framed work
Dimensions: Video, 1920 × 1080 pixels
Duration: 5 min 03 sec
｜Exhibition｜
2026 Reassembled Memories: Reborn, ALIEN Art Centre, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2025 ART FORMOSA International Art Fair, Taipei
2025 Infinite Disappearance: Intention and Wordless, Huashan 1914 Creative Park, Taipei
2024 The Orchid Pavilion Preface of GAN - Immersive AI Performance, Ambi Space One (Taipei 101), Taipei
2024 Surfacing the Self Itinerary Group Exhibition, Tungli Academy, Taipei
2023 No Longer Itinerary Group Exhibition, Tungli Academy, Taipei
2023 Keelung Wave Fashion, Keelung Port West Passenger Terminal Warehouse No. 2, Keelung
2023 Black Box Generation - The Dilemma of Civilized Deception, Galerie Grand Siècle, Taipei
2023 Conference on Metaverse and Digital Twins 2023, National Taiwan Science Education Center, Taipei
2023 Retain Itinerary Group Exhibition, Tungli Academy, Taipei
2023 ART FUTURE International Art Fair: Meta-Roamers - Survival Manual for Analog-Digital, Grand Hyatt Taipei, Taipei
2022 ASIAGRAPH 2022 CG Art and Technology Art Exhibition, TransWorld University, Yunlin
2022 Art Taipei New (Taipei International Contemporary Art Fair), Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei
2021 Kaohsiung Young Art Fair, The Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung
｜Awards｜
2023 Chairman's Award, GDAP#2 x Global Lighting Technologies Inc. (GLT) (Polytronics)
2022 Finalist, International Artist Grand Prize Competition
2021 Finalist, Kaohsiung Young Art Fair
2021 Finalist (Animation Category), Taoyuan Design Exhibition
2021 Excellence Award (Multimedia Design Category), China Creative Design Awards (Hwacan Award)
2020 Red Dot Award: Brands & Communication Design, Germany
2020 Finalist, Campus Golden Horse Awards
2020 Finalist, Vision Get Wild Award
2025 Video Sandbox III-Ⅶ：Reassembled Memories: Reborn, photo at ALIEN Art Centre, courtesy of the artist. © ALIEN Art Centre
2025 Video Sandbox III-Ⅶ：Reassembled Memories: Reborn, photo at ALIEN Art Centre, courtesy of the artist. © ALIEN Art Centre
2025 Video Sandbox III-Ⅶ：Reassembled Memories: Reborn, photo at ALIEN Art Centre, courtesy of the artist. © ALIEN Art Centre
2025 Video Sandbox III-Ⅶ：Reassembled Memories: Reborn, photo at ALIEN Art Centre, courtesy of the artist. © ALIEN Art Centre
2025 Video Sandbox III-Ⅶ：Reassembled Memories: Reborn, photo at ALIEN Art Centre, courtesy of the artist. © ALIEN Art Centre
2025 Video Sandbox III-Ⅶ：Reassembled Memories: Reborn, photo at ALIEN Art Centre, courtesy of the artist. © ALIEN Art Centre
2025 Video Sandbox III-Ⅶ：Reassembled Memories: Reborn, photo at ALIEN Art Centre, courtesy of the artist. © ALIEN Art Centre
2025 Video Sandbox III-Ⅶ：Reassembled Memories: Reborn, photo at ALIEN Art Centre, courtesy of the artist. © ALIEN Art Centre
2025 Video Sandbox III-Ⅶ：Reassembled Memories: Reborn, photo at ALIEN Art Centre, courtesy of the artist. © ALIEN Art Centre
2025 Video Sandbox III-Ⅶ：Reassembled Memories: Reborn, photo at ALIEN Art Centre, courtesy of the artist. © ALIEN Art Centre