asLab

as Creative as the Lab

"asLab" is co-creating the leading innovative projects with global scientists and artists, experimentally breaking the boundaries between science and art.

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Aha Moment

at asLab

Posters

Life is
a Symphony of Genes

A series of original illustration posters that paint the associations between genetic forms and those common things in life.

Cymatics World

Hearing is not the only way to explore sound. Visualizing sound in artistic ways with a variety of materials, including water, ferrofluid, salt, etc. A cymatics installation based on the traditional Chinese musical concept Ba Yin (八音, 8 sounds). This installation educates people that certain frequency of sound vibration could form different patterns with the sand on a mental plate.

Installation

Cymatics

What if natural objects could sing their timbre?

Brainwave Factory

Brainwave factories are devices and gadgets that translate real-time brainwave data into human sensible experiences, inspired from philosophical idioms of Chinese language and developed with a sense of Eastern-Asian aesthetic.

Brainwave Interactive Gadgets

The Brain is Where All Amazing Things Happen.

Floating Garden

People usually see most plants as still beings. What if their movements can be revealed by modified environments? Experiments and installations are made based on hydrotropism, gravitropism and phototropism, giving an insight into how plants react to their surrounding with natural talent.

3D Print Vase

Plants Have NoWords...
But
They Dance.

Crossover Exhibitions & Activities

"asLab" jointly develops various exhibitions and forums with the global cutting-edge scientists and artists, to discuss and explore the relationship between human and the world through sci-art perspective.

Exhibition

Mirror

2019

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Tim Yip

The exhibition culminated in a huge standing figure of a sculptural figure named Lili — a young woman one might see on the streets of any Chinese city — reproduced in every detail on a gigantic scale. The question on everybody's lips is 'Who is Lili?'

As the title of this exhibition, "Mirror", suggests, Lili offers us a reflection of ourselves. She is a vacuum. She contains nothing , yet if she is brought into the room, she changes the dynamic of the space around her. She is an agent of transformation.

The human cell, at the nucleus of which lies the DNA in which our genetic history is charted, is now itself the subject of an enormous atlas. Lili propagates not DNA but "spiritual DNA", an invisible binding force that links us all through a chain of memories to our deepest personal history. She offers a counterpoint to everything we can touch and call "real". She never moves or even turns her head unless directed by the hands of others, yet she fixes us all with her gaze. It is in this territory of the intangible that Tim Yip makes art.