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

I am a Chinese Canadian artist currently based in Toronto and Vancouver. My work explores post-extractive sites, toxic substances, and forms of biopolitics mediated through fluid matter. My current research focuses on DIY mist installations and biological media, including bodily fluids such as saliva. Through these materials, I explore tensions between affective experience, social control, and utopian thinking. In my resarch, fluid matter offers a way to imagine how relationships among bodies, technologies, and possible futures might be reorganized. 

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 lineages of socialist thought and by scientific and cosmo-spiritual traditions that move between myth and science, including Russian Cosmism, Eastern costomology and ritual practices.

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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