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Lingyu Peng

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arXiv2026

Ink Spiral: Symbolic Transformation from The Thinker to the Four Gentlemen

Western art has regarded The Thinker as a symbol of rational contemplation, while Eastern aesthetics has taken the Four Gentlemen, namely plum, orchid, bamboo, and chrysanthemum, as symbols of moral and spiritual cultivation. This paper presents Ink Spiral, a video installation that links these traditions through AI generated ink imagery. By transforming a rotating sculpture of The Thinker into the Four Gentlemen across thousands of frames, the work shifts between three dimensional sculpture and two dimensional ink, human introspection and natural symbolism. Ink Spiral turns fixed cultural icons into a fluid dialogue, inviting audiences to perceive cross cultural connection as a living, ambiguous, and endlessly interpretable creative state.

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arXiv2026

COSMIC 1001: Engaging Future Speculation on Space Exploration with Generative AI

Cosmic 1001 is an interactive installation that transforms space exploration history into a speculative news experience. Participants first browse a news-based archive of major space events, then pose future-oriented questions or specify conditions such as year, celestial body, or mission name. In response, AI generates a future news item including a headline, article, narration, and visual media. These outputs are accumulated in the Future Tunnel, a shared visualization where individual stories form a collective landscape of possible futures. By combining historical space events with science fiction references, the installation explores a space between documentation and imagination, treating the future not as a fixed prediction but as a visible and discussable speculation.

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arXiv2025

Tides of Memory: Digital Echoes of Netizen Remembran

This artwork presents an interdisciplinary interaction installation that visualizes collective online mourning behavior in China. By focusing on commemorative content posted on Sina Weibo following the deaths of seven prominent Chinese authors, the artwork employs data scraping, natural language processing, and 3D modeling to transform fragmented textual expressions into immersive digital monuments. Through the analysis of word frequencies, topic models, and user engagement metrics, the system constructs a semantic-visual landscape that reflects both authorial legacies and collective memory. This research contributes to the fields of digital humanities, visualization design, and digital memorial architecture by proposing a novel approach for preserving and reactivating collective memory in the digital age.

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arXiv2025

More Than Beautiful: Exploring Design Features, Practical Perspectives, and Implications of Artistic Data Visualization

Standing at the intersection of science and art, artistic data visualization has gained popularity in recent years and emerged as a significant domain. Despite more than a decade since the field's conceptualization, a noticeable gap remains in research concerning the design features of artistic data visualizations, the aesthetic goals they pursue, and their potential to inspire our community. To address these gaps, we analyzed 220 data artworks to understand their design paradigms and intents, and construct a design taxonomy to characterize their design techniques (e.g., sensation, interaction, narrative, physicality). We also conducted in-depth interviews with twelve data artists to explore their practical perspectives, such as their understanding of artistic data visualization and the challenges they encounter. In brief, we found that artistic data visualization is deeply rooted in art discourse, with its own distinctive characteristics in both inner pursuits and outer presentations. Based on our research, we outline seven prospective paths for future work.

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