CryoScapes: Landscape Painting with Water, Ice, and AI
SIGGRAPH Art Gallery ’25
Abstract
Cryoscape began during my Arctic Circle Artist Residency in Svalbard, inspired by water’s diverse forms—vapor, snow, waves, glaciers, and sea ice. We developed a 3D ice printing system to create intricate sculptures that evolve with temperature changes. Roaming water droplets freeze on hydrophobic or hydrophilic treated surfaces, forming landscapes that blur the sense of scale, from lunar terrains to microscopic crystalline patterns. A macro camera captures these formations in real-time, while AI interprets them into Haikus. Traveling to different cities, Cryoscape co-creates with local climates, questioning boundaries between artificial and natural, and offering insights into tissue engineering and microfluidics.
Keywords :
3D ice printer, slow technology, environmental sensing, AI poetry,
climate change, human-nature-machine collaboration
ref.: https://dl-acm-org.nthulib-oc.nthu.edu.tw/doi/pdf/10.1145/3721249.3731632
