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A Semiotic Study on Iching(In Progress)
Interactive Installation/Generative Art



Being an enthusiast of classical Chinese culture, I am fascinated by the philosophy of the I Ching. By generating eight basic elements through the combination of two yin and yang symbols, The I Ching forms sixty-four hexagrams which provides a tool for understanding the world. However, from a literary perspective, the I Ching is a genre of writing that utilizes symbols, guided by visual logic that is not perceived as sacred, inevitable, or unchangeable. It is not a stone tablet left by gods or extraterrestrials but a creation of humans. It possesses a recognizable logic, a comprehensible, and even replicable creative process. To me, it is an open framework. 

In my attempt to create this project, I have rewritten and expanded upon the I Ching within this framework and aim to make its original/contemporary meaning accessible to more people through sound visualizations by coding language,p5js.