Join me at wait 4 u, a screen-based installation examining the politics of waiting and the gap between expectation and reality through an awkward yet amusing experience. Set in a waiting room with multiple seats, the artwork presents a projection screen that continuously refreshes with AI-generated text messages, containing absurd and humorous excuses for being late to the exhibition. The large language models, trained on massive amounts of internet data, can generate endless excuses. However, these meaningless explanations created by machines may obscure genuine human intentions and emotions.

This collaborative experience invites spectators to reflect on how everyday communication is distributed and distorted within the physical-digital landscape, and how time and space are perceived subjectively in our ecological and technological context.

Adam Hsieh – Concept development, art direction & production

Adam Hsieh is a digital artist based in nipaluna/Hobart, lutruwita/Tasmania.

Hsieh’s art practice emerges from an ongoing inquiry into the dynamic tension between places and place-makers in entangled physical and virtual realms, guided by his intimate experience as a queer Chinese migrant. He seeks to unpack the complexity and fluidity of natural-cultural phenomena by manipulating systems of light, sound, moving images, and code in a series of multi-sensory artistic interventions. While examining the blurred borders between spaces and their inhabitants through situated and embodied interaction, he speculates on alternative approaches to understanding the shifting agency of humans and more-than-humans within a relational network of uncertainty and ambiguity.