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The Wet Commune
Green Sun
Pattern Test (No. 1)
Chlorophyll Grid
Fluid Dynamics Study
Britannia
Stay With Your Tribe
Sun and 80 Consonents
Matadero
CUERPO Collective Body
Supernormal Vision Machine
Night Stories
Terra
Field Condition
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   Sy Di 2026

I am a Chinese Canadian artist currently based in Toronto and Vancouver. My work explores the materiality of post-natural landscapes, particularly post-extractive sites, toxic substances, and forms of biopolitics mediated through fluid matter. I am interested in mist as an atmospheric medium that moves across human and non-human thresholds, producing shared conditions of affect, intimacy, danger, and uncertainty. I also work with bodily fluids such as saliva, where abjective expeirence and biological trace become entangled with systems of governance and control. Across these research interests, I seek to unpack moments of tension where substances produce relational, ambient, and speculative environments.

In my installation work, I often use repurposed objects, biological media, plants, electronics, environmental data, and live coding tools to assemble multimedia environments. My thinking is informed by scientific and cosmo-spiritual traditions that bridge natural systems, technology, and Eastern philosophy, as well as environmental history and cybernetics.

sy.di [at] mail.utoronto.ca
05.Fluid Dynamics Studies



2025 - ongoing


ultrasonic transducer chips, power supplies, MDF board, typha stems, floral foam
Fluid Dynamics Studies is a series of DIY misting apparatuses built from ultrasonic transducer chips. Designed to generate fine vapor through high-frequency vibration, these studies draw on a lineage of artistic and architectural practices that use atmosphere to shape perception and space, including Fujiko Nakaya's large-scale fog installations and works such as those of Teresa Margolles, where atmosphere is charged with biopolitics and collective memory. 

These small prototypes are used to study atmospheric effects, diffusion, and mist as a microclimate and milieu that moves between human and non-human systems. The studies function as working models for larger installations and an ongoing investigation into atmosphere as both a material condition and a political space.


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