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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

02.Green Sun



2026




steel cargo cart, air purifier, projector


Green Sun
is a video projection displayed on the motorized rotor and blades of an air purifier. As the blades spin, the moving image produces a hologram-like 3D effect, suspending the video in air as a floating, unstable picture. Through rapidly spinning blades and synchronized light, the work links the cycles of the machine to the cyclical movements of nature.

The video is composed of clips of crowd gatherings found on social media, edited to introduce abstraction and visual ambiguity. In certain segments, the crowd shifts between figuration and noise, moving between legibility and dissolution. While the work draws from contemporary scenes of crowd formation across different social spheres, it also takes up the theory of Alexander Chizhevsky, the Russian biophysicist and founder of heliobiology, who studied the correlations between solar cycles and mass human movement, war, and political upheaval.

The work explores how energies move through multiple systems — solar, mechanical, and social. The spinning rotor creates a volumetric illusion, allowing the crowd to appear as both mediated spectacle and latent force. Here, rotation becomes a shared formal principle: a movement through which energy is generated, transmitted, circulated, and consumed, binding cosmic cycles to political and cultural intensities.


1/5    installation view 
2/5    Video projection on morotized rotor and blades creating a hologram effect
3/5    Video projection on morotized rotor and blades creating a hologram effect
4/5    Video projection on morotized rotor and blades creating a hologram effect
5/5    Excerpt of video projection with found clips of crowd gathering