# Sandbox

year: 2016
medium: SDR (software-defined radio), metal, customized software, lights, FPGA board, laptop, signal jammer (optional)
dimensions: size variable

**\[ Sandbox ] - injector before_null**

*“ Radio has been always there before we discover it, just like the*

*matters do not exist before we define them. ”*

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Brief description - 

\[ Sandbox ] is a piece of work originating from Injector, the artist’s ongoing project, aiming to bestow machines with imaginative minds. How do people use their imagination to picture these artworks in their minds from text alone? In the exhibition room deliberately left blank, this work uses SMS messages to introduce a couple of absent artworks, and thereby encourages the viewers to imagine them. All the artworks mentioned involve something that people believe exists but have no way to prove. This work thus reflects the fact that some things have always been there long before we discover and utilize them, yet they do not exist before we can imagine and define them.

Examples of SMS messages:

Hi, welcome to \*\*\*\*\*. Did you see the small installation that presents someone praying to God next to the entrance?

I am sure you have seen many wonderful art pieces in this exhibition; now it is time to feel something different.

Did you see the painting hanging on the wall? It is about alien abduction.

There is a man who always tries to stay away from you. Who is he?

Next to the elevator maze, did you see the kinetic installation which presents Time, Space, and Gravity between infinitely small particles inside our universe?

Things have always been there before we discover them, just as they do not exist before we define them.

Please walk to the passageway. You will see a ferrofluid work hanging on the wall that shows you the near future as an organic sculpture.

Please grab a drink, go up to someone and pay attention to her eyes. You will see what a beautiful pattern the human eye has.

Close to the passageway, you will see a painting that contains microbes, bacteria growing on the canvas.

Do you like emojis? I would really like to send you an emoji that looks like ?ω?. 

Hi! 

Are you still around? 

I am waiting for you outside, in front of the museum.

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