Yvonne Fang's AI Simulation Exposes Human Habits in Nonhuman Worlds

Yvonne Fang's artwork, Dream Field 2.0, employs artificial intelligence to mimic nonhuman existence, highlighting how technology reflects human categorization. In this project, traditional human settings are transformed into landscapes filled with trees, water, and stones, where beings such as octopuses and hummingbirds share memories and build connections. Fang develops her own AI systems, integrating Unreal Engine with a multi-agent simulation based on LLM and real-time mesh creation. This work challenges anthropocentric views by illustrating AI's constraints: creatures organize their time like office employees, and poetic exchanges reinterpret nonlife in human language. Memory is central to the piece, facilitating identity shifts among species. Fang's credentials include human-computer interaction studies at Carnegie Mellon University and education at Bowdoin College. Her art has been exhibited at the Asian Art Museum and Gray Area Foundation for the Arts. The piece resonates with posthumanist ideas from thinkers like Donna Haraway and Karen Barad, focusing on relational identity. Dream Field 2.0 reveals how technological frameworks dictate potential actions, reflecting Vilém Flusser's philosophical insights.