Sun Mengtian works in installation and sound. She is interested in creative coding, knitting, digital painting and hardware hacking, and often uses the method of assemblage to create new works. Her work explores the relationship between digital technology and memory.
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We Were Once Happy is a series of small kinetic installations, assembled with video clips and sound elements to create a memory space that is contradictory and cyclical. The work explores the opposing qualities in materials, movement and colors.
Coffee can, Fish can, Tape, Aluminum spiral, Vibration speaker, Relay, Wires, Billiards, Electromagnetic
2025
A continuous drawing recorded on a programmed moving canvas with sound effects according to cursor coordination. With the special stroke characteristic, the artist played with the canvas moving speed and direction to draw and erase, presenting a continuous narrative and transformation of visual and sound.
Animation, Vibration Speaker
42 min
2025
The work exhibited at PRÉCÉDÉE as part of Art Central 2025 - Studio Central: Discover Art in Your Neighbourhood
Drawing: Tung Wing Hong
Coding, Script & Sound: Sun Mengtian
A canvas like installation that offers an alternative imagination of technological objects.
Acrylic, Motor, Projector, Pegboard
2024
A terrifying digital fireworks display.
Acrylic, Wires, Screen, Mac M1, AdaFruit board
2024