Yunzhi / Melissa Li

Aug 2025 · selected work

Hear how you look, see how you sound

Aug 2025 Hear how you look, see how you sound: six small screens on a gallery wall, their cables running down to a white plinth with a button

six LCD screens, button, Arduino, plinth

‘Hear how you look, see how you sound’ is a self-eroding portrait booth that turns every visitor’s image into sound, invites them to “play” that sound, then burns the edited audio back into the picture’s pixel data. Each cycle bruises the file a little more, leaving behind a corrupted photograph that audibly and visually catalogues the show’s slow decay. The piece literalises data’s tendency to drift, break and disappear once it leaves our hard drives and circulates in public space.

Date
Aug 2025
Dimensions
400 × 60 × 300 cm
Tags
Installation, LCD, CCTV, Arduino
Audience Interaction

Copeland Gallery, BitRot - Phreaking Collective, August 2025

Pictures taken from audience interaction and a series of erosion from image to sound conversion