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Planet Jent Official (2023)
Media: Website, Laptop
After stepping through the portal of “On Planet Jent”, you arrive at the Planet Jent Official, a fictional utopia inspired by Soc Nhi, a late 2000s online game and community platform for chidren.
You are welcome to explore this world on your own laptop devices with this link.
You are welcome to explore this world on your own laptop devices with this link.
The Lore:
𝛥𝜏 𝜏𝑖𝑚𝜀 𝑖𝜂 𝜏𝜆𝜀 𝜇𝜂𝑖𝜈𝜀𝛾𝑠𝜀 𝜏𝑖𝑚𝜀𝜄𝑖𝜂𝜀, 𝛻𝑖𝜀𝜏𝜂𝛼𝑚𝜀𝑠𝜀𝑠 𝜃𝜂 𝜀𝛼𝛾𝜏𝜆 𝜍𝜃𝜂𝑠𝜏𝛾𝜇𝜍𝜏𝜀𝛿 𝛼 𝑚𝛼𝑔𝑖𝜍𝛼𝜄 𝜌𝜃𝛾𝜏𝛼𝜄 𝜃𝜂 𝛼 𝜍𝜃𝑚𝜌𝜇𝜏𝜀𝛾 𝜏𝜆𝛼𝜏 𝜏𝛾𝛼𝜂𝑠𝜌𝜃𝛾𝜏 𝜏𝜃 𝛼 𝜌𝛼𝛾𝛼𝜄𝜄𝜀𝜄 𝛿𝑖𝑚𝜀𝜂𝑠𝑖𝜃𝜂 𝜍𝛼𝜄𝜄𝑠 𝛲𝜄𝛼𝜂𝜀𝜏 𝐽𝜀𝜂𝜏.
𝛲𝜄𝛼𝜂𝜀𝜏 𝐽𝜀𝜂𝜏 𝑖𝑠 𝛼 𝛿𝜀𝜄𝑖𝜍𝑖𝜃𝜇𝑠 𝜆𝜃𝜏 𝜌𝜃𝜏 𝜃𝑓 𝜍𝜃𝑚𝜌𝜇𝜏𝜀𝛾-𝑔𝜀𝜂𝜀𝛾𝛼𝜏𝜀𝛿 𝑖𝑚𝛼𝑔𝜀𝑠 𝑓𝑖𝜄𝜄𝜀𝛿 𝜛𝑖𝜏𝜆 𝛥𝛪 𝛼𝛾𝜏𝑖𝑠𝜏𝛾𝜓, 𝛼 3𝐷 𝛿𝛾𝜀𝛼𝑚𝑠𝜍𝛼𝜌𝜀, 𝑓𝑖𝜄𝜄𝜀𝛿 𝜛𝑖𝜏𝜆 𝜈𝑖𝛽𝛾𝛼𝜂𝜏 𝜍𝜃𝜄𝜃𝛾𝑠, 𝑖𝜂𝜏𝛾𝑖𝜍𝛼𝜏𝜀 𝑓𝛾𝛼𝜍𝜏𝛼𝜄𝑠, 𝛼𝜂𝛿 𝜀𝜏𝜆𝜀𝛾𝜀𝛼𝜄 𝜄𝛼𝜂𝛿𝑠𝜍𝛼𝜌𝜀𝑠 𝜄𝜃𝜃𝑠𝜀𝜄𝜓 𝑖𝜂𝑠𝜌𝑖𝛾𝜀𝛿 𝛽𝜓 𝜏𝛾𝛼𝛿𝑖𝜏𝑖𝜃𝜂𝛼𝜄 𝛻𝑖𝜀𝜏𝜂𝛼𝑚𝜀𝑠𝜀 𝛿𝜀𝜍𝜃𝛾𝛼𝜏𝑖𝜈𝜀 𝛼𝛾𝜏. 𝐽𝜀𝜂𝜏𝑖𝛼𝜂𝑠 𝜀𝑚𝛽𝛾𝛼𝜍𝜀 𝜍𝜇𝜄𝜏𝜇𝛾𝛼𝜄 𝛿𝑖𝑓𝑓𝜀𝛾𝜀𝜂𝜍𝜀𝑠 𝛽𝜀𝜏𝜛𝜀𝜀𝜂 𝑚𝜇𝜄𝜏𝑖𝜏𝜇𝛿𝜀𝑠 𝜃𝑓 𝑠𝜌𝜀𝜍𝑖𝜀𝑠, 𝑓𝜃𝑠𝜏𝜀𝛾𝑖𝜂𝑔 𝜌𝜀𝛼𝜍𝜀 𝛼𝜂𝛿 𝜄𝜃𝜈𝜀 𝛼𝜂𝛿 𝛼𝑔𝛼𝑖𝜂𝑠𝜏 𝜆𝜃𝑚𝜃𝑔𝜀𝜂𝜀𝑖𝜏𝜓.
𝛲𝜄𝛼𝜂𝜀𝜏 𝐽𝜀𝜂𝜏 𝑖𝑠 𝛼 𝜇𝜏𝜃𝜌𝑖𝛼 𝜛𝜆𝜀𝛾𝜀 𝜀𝜈𝜀𝛾𝜓𝜃𝜂𝜀 𝜀𝜒𝑖𝑠𝜏 𝑖𝜂 𝜌𝜀𝛼𝜍𝜀 𝛾𝜀𝑔𝛼𝛾𝛿𝜄𝜀𝑠𝑠 𝜃𝑓 𝛾𝛼𝜍𝜀, 𝑔𝜀𝜂𝛿𝜀𝛾, 𝜍𝜄𝛼𝑠𝑠, 𝛼𝛽𝑖𝜄𝑖𝜏𝜓, 𝜀𝜏𝜍. 𝛴𝜈𝜀𝛾𝜓𝜃𝜂𝜀 𝑠𝜀𝜀𝜅𝑠 𝜃𝛽𝑗𝜀𝜍𝜏𝑖𝜈𝜀 𝜇𝜂𝛿𝜀𝛾𝑠𝜏𝛼𝜂𝛿𝑖𝜂𝑔 𝛼𝜂𝛿 𝑚𝑖𝛿𝛿𝜄𝜀 𝑔𝛾𝜃𝜇𝜂𝛿 𝜛𝑖𝜏𝜆 𝜀𝛼𝜍𝜆 𝜃𝜏𝜆𝜀𝛾, 𝜀𝜈𝜀𝜂 𝜛𝜆𝜀𝜂 𝜏𝜆𝜀𝑖𝛾 𝑖𝛿𝜀𝜃𝜄𝜃𝑔𝑖𝜀𝑠 𝜍𝜄𝛼𝑠𝜆. 𝛵𝜆𝜀 𝑔𝜃𝜈𝜀𝛾𝜂𝑚𝜀𝜂𝜏 𝜆𝜀𝛾𝜀 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑖𝑚𝑖𝜄𝛼𝛾 𝜏𝜃 𝜏𝜆𝜀 𝑠𝜏𝛾𝜇𝜍𝜏𝜇𝛾𝜀 𝜍𝛼𝜄𝜄𝜀𝛿 𝑆𝜃𝜍𝑖𝛼𝜄𝑖𝑠𝑚 𝜃𝜂 𝜀𝛼𝛾𝜏𝜆, 𝜛𝜆𝜀𝛾𝜀 𝜀𝜈𝜀𝛾𝜓 𝑖𝜂𝜆𝛼𝛽𝑖𝜏𝛼𝜂𝜏 𝜍𝜃𝜂𝜏𝛾𝑖𝛽𝜇𝜏𝜀 𝜏𝜃 𝜏𝜆𝜀 𝑠𝜃𝜍𝑖𝜀𝜏𝜓 𝛼𝑠 𝛼 𝜛𝜆𝜃𝜄𝜀 𝛼𝜂𝛿 𝜂𝜀𝜈𝜀𝛾 𝛽𝜀 𝑔𝛾𝜀𝜀𝛿𝜓 𝜃𝛾 𝑠𝜀𝜄𝑓𝑖𝑠𝜆.
𝛵𝜃 𝜍𝜃𝑚𝑚𝜇𝜂𝑖𝜍𝛼𝜏𝜀 𝜛𝑖𝜏𝜆 𝜀𝛼𝛾𝜏𝜆 𝜆𝜇𝑚𝛼𝜂𝑠, 𝜛𝜀 𝐽𝜀𝜂𝜏𝑖𝛼𝜂𝑠 𝜇𝑠𝜀 𝑚𝜃𝑠𝜏𝜄𝜓 𝛴𝜂𝑔𝜄𝑖𝑠𝜆 𝛼𝜂𝛿 𝑠𝜃𝑚𝜀 𝜃𝑓 𝜃𝜇𝛾 𝛾𝜃𝜃𝜏 𝜄𝛼𝜂𝑔𝜇𝛼𝑔𝜀 𝛻𝑖𝜀𝜏𝜂𝛼𝑚𝜀𝑠𝜀 𝑓𝜃𝛾 𝜄𝜓𝛾𝑖𝜍𝑠 𝑖𝜂 𝜏𝜆𝜀 𝑆𝜛𝛼𝑚𝜌 𝛼𝜂𝛿 𝛥𝛾𝜀𝜂𝛼.
𝛩𝜂 𝛲𝜄𝛼𝜂𝜀𝜏 𝐽𝜀𝜂𝜏, 𝜓𝜃𝜇 𝛼𝛾𝜀 𝛽𝛾𝜃𝜇𝑔𝜆𝜏 𝛽𝛼𝜍𝜅 𝜏𝜃 Sóc Nhí 𝜏𝜓𝜌𝜀 𝜛𝜀𝛽𝑠𝑖𝜏𝜀 𝜀𝜒𝜌𝜀𝛾𝑖𝜀𝜂𝜍𝜀 𝛽𝜇𝜏 𝑖𝜂 𝛼 𝜛𝛼𝜓 𝜏𝜆𝛼𝜏 𝜀𝜈𝜃𝜅𝜀 𝑠𝜏𝛾𝛼𝜂𝑔𝜀𝜂𝜀𝑠𝑠.
𝛥𝜏 𝜏𝑖𝑚𝜀 𝑖𝜂 𝜏𝜆𝜀 𝜇𝜂𝑖𝜈𝜀𝛾𝑠𝜀 𝜏𝑖𝑚𝜀𝜄𝑖𝜂𝜀, 𝛻𝑖𝜀𝜏𝜂𝛼𝑚𝜀𝑠𝜀𝑠 𝜃𝜂 𝜀𝛼𝛾𝜏𝜆 𝜍𝜃𝜂𝑠𝜏𝛾𝜇𝜍𝜏𝜀𝛿 𝛼 𝑚𝛼𝑔𝑖𝜍𝛼𝜄 𝜌𝜃𝛾𝜏𝛼𝜄 𝜃𝜂 𝛼 𝜍𝜃𝑚𝜌𝜇𝜏𝜀𝛾 𝜏𝜆𝛼𝜏 𝜏𝛾𝛼𝜂𝑠𝜌𝜃𝛾𝜏 𝜏𝜃 𝛼 𝜌𝛼𝛾𝛼𝜄𝜄𝜀𝜄 𝛿𝑖𝑚𝜀𝜂𝑠𝑖𝜃𝜂 𝜍𝛼𝜄𝜄𝑠 𝛲𝜄𝛼𝜂𝜀𝜏 𝐽𝜀𝜂𝜏.
𝛲𝜄𝛼𝜂𝜀𝜏 𝐽𝜀𝜂𝜏 𝑖𝑠 𝛼 𝛿𝜀𝜄𝑖𝜍𝑖𝜃𝜇𝑠 𝜆𝜃𝜏 𝜌𝜃𝜏 𝜃𝑓 𝜍𝜃𝑚𝜌𝜇𝜏𝜀𝛾-𝑔𝜀𝜂𝜀𝛾𝛼𝜏𝜀𝛿 𝑖𝑚𝛼𝑔𝜀𝑠 𝑓𝑖𝜄𝜄𝜀𝛿 𝜛𝑖𝜏𝜆 𝛥𝛪 𝛼𝛾𝜏𝑖𝑠𝜏𝛾𝜓, 𝛼 3𝐷 𝛿𝛾𝜀𝛼𝑚𝑠𝜍𝛼𝜌𝜀, 𝑓𝑖𝜄𝜄𝜀𝛿 𝜛𝑖𝜏𝜆 𝜈𝑖𝛽𝛾𝛼𝜂𝜏 𝜍𝜃𝜄𝜃𝛾𝑠, 𝑖𝜂𝜏𝛾𝑖𝜍𝛼𝜏𝜀 𝑓𝛾𝛼𝜍𝜏𝛼𝜄𝑠, 𝛼𝜂𝛿 𝜀𝜏𝜆𝜀𝛾𝜀𝛼𝜄 𝜄𝛼𝜂𝛿𝑠𝜍𝛼𝜌𝜀𝑠 𝜄𝜃𝜃𝑠𝜀𝜄𝜓 𝑖𝜂𝑠𝜌𝑖𝛾𝜀𝛿 𝛽𝜓 𝜏𝛾𝛼𝛿𝑖𝜏𝑖𝜃𝜂𝛼𝜄 𝛻𝑖𝜀𝜏𝜂𝛼𝑚𝜀𝑠𝜀 𝛿𝜀𝜍𝜃𝛾𝛼𝜏𝑖𝜈𝜀 𝛼𝛾𝜏. 𝐽𝜀𝜂𝜏𝑖𝛼𝜂𝑠 𝜀𝑚𝛽𝛾𝛼𝜍𝜀 𝜍𝜇𝜄𝜏𝜇𝛾𝛼𝜄 𝛿𝑖𝑓𝑓𝜀𝛾𝜀𝜂𝜍𝜀𝑠 𝛽𝜀𝜏𝜛𝜀𝜀𝜂 𝑚𝜇𝜄𝜏𝑖𝜏𝜇𝛿𝜀𝑠 𝜃𝑓 𝑠𝜌𝜀𝜍𝑖𝜀𝑠, 𝑓𝜃𝑠𝜏𝜀𝛾𝑖𝜂𝑔 𝜌𝜀𝛼𝜍𝜀 𝛼𝜂𝛿 𝜄𝜃𝜈𝜀 𝛼𝜂𝛿 𝛼𝑔𝛼𝑖𝜂𝑠𝜏 𝜆𝜃𝑚𝜃𝑔𝜀𝜂𝜀𝑖𝜏𝜓.
𝛲𝜄𝛼𝜂𝜀𝜏 𝐽𝜀𝜂𝜏 𝑖𝑠 𝛼 𝜇𝜏𝜃𝜌𝑖𝛼 𝜛𝜆𝜀𝛾𝜀 𝜀𝜈𝜀𝛾𝜓𝜃𝜂𝜀 𝜀𝜒𝑖𝑠𝜏 𝑖𝜂 𝜌𝜀𝛼𝜍𝜀 𝛾𝜀𝑔𝛼𝛾𝛿𝜄𝜀𝑠𝑠 𝜃𝑓 𝛾𝛼𝜍𝜀, 𝑔𝜀𝜂𝛿𝜀𝛾, 𝜍𝜄𝛼𝑠𝑠, 𝛼𝛽𝑖𝜄𝑖𝜏𝜓, 𝜀𝜏𝜍. 𝛴𝜈𝜀𝛾𝜓𝜃𝜂𝜀 𝑠𝜀𝜀𝜅𝑠 𝜃𝛽𝑗𝜀𝜍𝜏𝑖𝜈𝜀 𝜇𝜂𝛿𝜀𝛾𝑠𝜏𝛼𝜂𝛿𝑖𝜂𝑔 𝛼𝜂𝛿 𝑚𝑖𝛿𝛿𝜄𝜀 𝑔𝛾𝜃𝜇𝜂𝛿 𝜛𝑖𝜏𝜆 𝜀𝛼𝜍𝜆 𝜃𝜏𝜆𝜀𝛾, 𝜀𝜈𝜀𝜂 𝜛𝜆𝜀𝜂 𝜏𝜆𝜀𝑖𝛾 𝑖𝛿𝜀𝜃𝜄𝜃𝑔𝑖𝜀𝑠 𝜍𝜄𝛼𝑠𝜆. 𝛵𝜆𝜀 𝑔𝜃𝜈𝜀𝛾𝜂𝑚𝜀𝜂𝜏 𝜆𝜀𝛾𝜀 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑖𝑚𝑖𝜄𝛼𝛾 𝜏𝜃 𝜏𝜆𝜀 𝑠𝜏𝛾𝜇𝜍𝜏𝜇𝛾𝜀 𝜍𝛼𝜄𝜄𝜀𝛿 𝑆𝜃𝜍𝑖𝛼𝜄𝑖𝑠𝑚 𝜃𝜂 𝜀𝛼𝛾𝜏𝜆, 𝜛𝜆𝜀𝛾𝜀 𝜀𝜈𝜀𝛾𝜓 𝑖𝜂𝜆𝛼𝛽𝑖𝜏𝛼𝜂𝜏 𝜍𝜃𝜂𝜏𝛾𝑖𝛽𝜇𝜏𝜀 𝜏𝜃 𝜏𝜆𝜀 𝑠𝜃𝜍𝑖𝜀𝜏𝜓 𝛼𝑠 𝛼 𝜛𝜆𝜃𝜄𝜀 𝛼𝜂𝛿 𝜂𝜀𝜈𝜀𝛾 𝛽𝜀 𝑔𝛾𝜀𝜀𝛿𝜓 𝜃𝛾 𝑠𝜀𝜄𝑓𝑖𝑠𝜆.
𝛵𝜃 𝜍𝜃𝑚𝑚𝜇𝜂𝑖𝜍𝛼𝜏𝜀 𝜛𝑖𝜏𝜆 𝜀𝛼𝛾𝜏𝜆 𝜆𝜇𝑚𝛼𝜂𝑠, 𝜛𝜀 𝐽𝜀𝜂𝜏𝑖𝛼𝜂𝑠 𝜇𝑠𝜀 𝑚𝜃𝑠𝜏𝜄𝜓 𝛴𝜂𝑔𝜄𝑖𝑠𝜆 𝛼𝜂𝛿 𝑠𝜃𝑚𝜀 𝜃𝑓 𝜃𝜇𝛾 𝛾𝜃𝜃𝜏 𝜄𝛼𝜂𝑔𝜇𝛼𝑔𝜀 𝛻𝑖𝜀𝜏𝜂𝛼𝑚𝜀𝑠𝜀 𝑓𝜃𝛾 𝜄𝜓𝛾𝑖𝜍𝑠 𝑖𝜂 𝜏𝜆𝜀 𝑆𝜛𝛼𝑚𝜌 𝛼𝜂𝛿 𝛥𝛾𝜀𝜂𝛼.
𝛩𝜂 𝛲𝜄𝛼𝜂𝜀𝜏 𝐽𝜀𝜂𝜏, 𝜓𝜃𝜇 𝛼𝛾𝜀 𝛽𝛾𝜃𝜇𝑔𝜆𝜏 𝛽𝛼𝜍𝜅 𝜏𝜃 Sóc Nhí 𝜏𝜓𝜌𝜀 𝜛𝜀𝛽𝑠𝑖𝜏𝜀 𝜀𝜒𝜌𝜀𝛾𝑖𝜀𝜂𝜍𝜀 𝛽𝜇𝜏 𝑖𝜂 𝛼 𝜛𝛼𝜓 𝜏𝜆𝛼𝜏 𝜀𝜈𝜃𝜅𝜀 𝑠𝜏𝛾𝛼𝜂𝑔𝜀𝜂𝜀𝑠𝑠.
On view at “A Village Before Us”, November - December 2023
John David Mooney Foundation, Chicago IL, USA.
On Planet Jent (2023)
Media: Monitor, Mediapipe API, Webcam Cardboard, Paper
Gaze into this portal as you transform into creatures on Planet Jent, on which all matter is constructed from the flesh of computer-generated images.
Planet Jent is a utopia where everyone is equal and happy. I obscure the audiences faces but not entirely, to make them wonder about their identities that are attached to their face (racial, gender, privilege, etc) and make them question what does it mean to be a Jent.
Big thanks to professor Doug Rosman and Chloe Thompson who helped me with the code!
Planet Jent is a utopia where everyone is equal and happy. I obscure the audiences faces but not entirely, to make them wonder about their identities that are attached to their face (racial, gender, privilege, etc) and make them question what does it mean to be a Jent.
Big thanks to professor Doug Rosman and Chloe Thompson who helped me with the code!
The layout for the installation is inspired by Vietnamese pagodas and traditional decorative art, stacking layers upon layers of portals. The colour explosion, extremely intricacy mimic the my all-time favorite Khai Dinh Tomb in Hue, Vietnam. A portal/ altar/ monument of Jent was built convincingly grand and overwhelming to evoke the otherworldliness, artificiality and approaching Vietnamese futurism
All images shown are made in collaboration/ inspired by AI tools (Midjourney, StyleGAN) to create a whole new world. As a result of being in isolation, I have always had a desire to clone myself or the blob of existence that I am, and this portal is a way to do it.
All images shown are made in collaboration/ inspired by AI tools (Midjourney, StyleGAN) to create a whole new world. As a result of being in isolation, I have always had a desire to clone myself or the blob of existence that I am, and this portal is a way to do it.
ccGAN (2022)
Media: Trained StyleGAN2 Dataset,
Brightside Screen
Brightside Screen
This piece discusses mass production of data generated by the influencer culture, while questioning the boundary of art and content. Using datasets from almost every documented experimental makeup and drag looks from April 2020 until April 2022, Jent generated a series of dismorphed faces. Thus, Jent is not one individual but merely a collection of data and images. Jent only exist on the internet space, and they are haunting your endless scrolling habit for diluted dopamine hits. Jent doesn’t have an inherent gender, and through the binary lens of machine learning that construct and decide their identity. As an Asian with an unmemorable face, the social media algorithm doesn’t favor them and give them less promotion than white people and people who follow trend just to feed the algorithm that is designed to measure your data as means of surveillance.
The Gardener (2020)
Materials: Microcontrollers (Circuit Playground Express, Arduino), Motor Servos, Cables, Cardboard, Paper, Wooden Sticks, Pushpins, Pigment liner pens.
This is the Gardener. The Gardener is a drawing robot which can grow new plants in the garden, like blooming roses or symmetrical succulents. Some other times it can dig a hole or detect some crawling worms.
The machinery of the Gardener responds to the exhibition theme “displacement”. The machine is composed of 4 180-degree motor servos and a continuous spinning table in the middle. I attached 2 pigment liner pens to the motors with adjustable handle lengths. It can draw with absolute angle control, or with a margin of error with the looseness of the handle. The machine does not draw perfect symmetry, but it can draw experimentally as restrained to the handle position and gravity. The spinning table resembles the earth quality that the Gardener work with.
The sound level nearby the Gardener correlate with the angle of one 180-degrees motor, and the spinning speed of the table as well. This another layer of sound sensor makes the machine a great listener and reactive to the surroundings.
The Gardener explores the relationship between the machine and the artist. The gardening metaphor is related to both the natural creation and the human interference on nature, the same way the machine is both a tool and a collaborator/artist itself. Although the Gardener is does not assume human figure nor have the full sense of agency of a human, it still possesses
the ability to create. The aesthetic is black and white and somewhat minimalistic, reflecting on the binaries that this machine a part of: the computer binary code, the obedience/disobedience, the creativity/nothingness.
The machinery of the Gardener responds to the exhibition theme “displacement”. The machine is composed of 4 180-degree motor servos and a continuous spinning table in the middle. I attached 2 pigment liner pens to the motors with adjustable handle lengths. It can draw with absolute angle control, or with a margin of error with the looseness of the handle. The machine does not draw perfect symmetry, but it can draw experimentally as restrained to the handle position and gravity. The spinning table resembles the earth quality that the Gardener work with.
The sound level nearby the Gardener correlate with the angle of one 180-degrees motor, and the spinning speed of the table as well. This another layer of sound sensor makes the machine a great listener and reactive to the surroundings.
The Gardener explores the relationship between the machine and the artist. The gardening metaphor is related to both the natural creation and the human interference on nature, the same way the machine is both a tool and a collaborator/artist itself. Although the Gardener is does not assume human figure nor have the full sense of agency of a human, it still possesses
the ability to create. The aesthetic is black and white and somewhat minimalistic, reflecting on the binaries that this machine a part of: the computer binary code, the obedience/disobedience, the creativity/nothingness.
svperficial_world (2020)
Media: Video Collage,
Remixed soundtrack
Remixed soundtrack
In a form of a music video, this piece uses Instagram as a visual platform, featuring the endless scroll, annoying advertisements, and also discusses the labor of content creation, likes as merit and trendiness. The soundtrack is a remix of viral Tiktok songs in 2020.
