Mediatosphere: Landscape Interface
Man Tin Solo Exhibition
8 Nov 2025 – 16 Jan 2026, Koon Man Space, Hong Kong
Mediatosphere shifts the focus from algorithms as tools to mediation as habitat. It asks how humans and machines coevolve within a shared layer where perception, style, and value are continually negotiated. Through AI‑generated Shan Shui, the exhibition treats landscape as a living interface. Mountains and waters appear not only in ink and paper, but within feedback loops among prompts, datasets, models, platforms, displays, and viewers. The mediatosphere is a relational field, an ecology of attention, computation, and culture, where images, shaped by AI systems, teach us as we teach them.
Postphenomenology reminds us that technology is not a transparent tool. It rewrites the human–world relation as an interface. Within this interface, AI helps define what counts as visible, legible, and intelligible. The AI‑generated Shan Shui on view brings classical principles such as multi‑perspectival wandering, the resonance of solid and void, and the circulation of qi (vital energy) into contact with machinic habits such as segmentation, interpolation, probabilistic sampling, and volumetric reconstruction. The viewer encounters not only mountains and waters, but also the technical conditions by which “mountains and waters” come to be.
In the post-noosphere, meaning formation crosses the boundary between human and machinic minds. Machine perception is not an imitation of the human eye; it structures the world through similarity, gradients, and priors. To look at these works is to negotiate with an alternative sensibility. Style becomes a steady state within a technical pipeline rather than the extension of a hand. Tradition is reconstructed and redistributed in weights, hyperparameters, and platform protocols, rather than merely preserved in memory.
Mediatosphere: Landscape Interface reminds us that seeing can be an intervention. As machine intelligence increasingly participates in defining what the world can mean, our task is not only to learn how to use it, but to co‑design a sensible future with it, so that mountains and waters, under new conditions, can again testify to how we and the world shape one another.
