PhenoDharma
2026 meda:loft, Kyoto, Japan
KG+ 2026
Joint exhibition “Cyan from the Other Shore” with Alex CHUNG Po Lun and WONG Wo Bik, curated by LAU Tung Pui
Photo Courtesy: LAU Tung Pui
The series of work titled “PhenoDharma” investigates the phenomenology of Dharma, the arising and dissolution of forms through conditions, employing digital technologies such as machine learning, generative AI, Gaussian splatting, and digital cyanotypes. The work visualizes the shifting appearances of Tai Mo Shan, Hong Kong’s highest peak, and the Bodhisattva statue of Ling Wan Temple, one of the oldest temples in Hong Kong located in Tai Mo Shan. Each reconstruction becomes a meditation on impermanence, interdependence, and transformation.
Beyond viewing technology as a mere instrument, PhenoDharma approaches it as a contemplative collaborator. Algorithms observe and recompose the world through probabilistic inference and latent space, transforming seeing into an act of co‑creation between human and machine. In this process, the “marks of phenomena” are reinterpreted as digital apparitions, where form and emptiness overlap in data fields.
The project suggests that to visualize Dharma is to participate in it. Within the feedback loops of perception, computation, and reflection, new sites of awareness emerge. Mountains, statues, and neural networks together reveal that every appearance, whether in pixels or consciousness, is a momentary manifestation of the same boundless continuum of becoming.
