Underwater

AI Art

Exhibited @ Bluetopia (Airside HK)

Underwater is an artwork that reimagines the beauty of an inexistent marine community with the help of artificial intelligence based on the photographs of the collected marine samples from waters in Hong Kong by marine scientists from The Swire Institute of Marine Science (SWIMS). 

 

Underwater 是一件使用人工智能創作的視覺作品。它利用香港大學太古海洋科學研究所(SWIMS)的科學家們拍攝的水下生物樣本的照片結合人工智能來想象創作並不存在的水底海洋社群。

This artwork draws its inspiration from a scientific project focus on marine biodiversity conducted by SWIMS. MarineGEO scientists at SWIMS study how various water conditions impact the marine ecosystem by using Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS). The structures with stacks of plates are submerged in waters at different locations in Hong Kong and then collected after a designated period of time. The scientists then retrieve and disassemble the ARMS to analyze the organisms that have taken up the residence in ARMS. What’s truly astonishing is that sometimes undocumented species could be revealed in the structures. Therefore here we raise a question: How many unseen species are there on our planet that might be extinct before we know they exist?

 

 

這件作品的靈感來自於一個由香港海洋研究所進行的關於海洋生物多樣性的項目。海洋研究所的科學家利用自主珊瑚礁監測裝置(ARMS)來研究不同的水域條件會如何影響海洋的生態系統。這個監測裝置是由一組相叠的板組成的結構,科學家將這些裝置放入香港不同的水域,等待一段時間后再將它們取回,打開后分析移居進該裝置的不同生物并為每塊樣本板拍攝照片。一個很有趣的發現是,科學家們偶爾會在這些裝置中找到一些在全世界都未曾有所記錄的新生物的身影。這個有趣的事實讓我不禁在想:有多少我們未曾見過的生物正處於瀕臨滅絕的邊緣或在我們發現它們之前就已經滅絕呢?