How does MR and AI merge art and technology at HKUST?

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HKUST’s SURREALITY merges MR and AI into art by placing AI-generated works and real-time, spatial-computing visuals into the campus environment that visitors can explore with MR headsets.

HKUST’s SURREALITY Mixed Reality (MR) × Artificial Intelligence (AI) Digital Art Cross-City Exhibition integrates creativity with Virtual Reality (VR), MR, and AI technologies by combining AI-generated artworks with the physical Clear Water Bay campus setting. Visitors wear MR headsets to explore three MR exhibition areas—Living Currents, Future Fables, and Beyond Mind—turning the campus into an immersive, technology-driven art space. Across both HKUST campuses, nearly 50 works by more than 70 digital artists from countries and regions including the United States, Germany, Russia, Australia, Bolivia, Singapore, Korea, the Chinese Mainland, and Hong Kong are displayed.
AI-generated artworks are embedded into the physical campus through spatial computing
The exhibition’s core format is the integration of AI-generated artworks with the campus environment, using spatial computing and real-time rendering technologies to create immersion. Instead of presenting digital art only on screens, the works are positioned so that the physical campus becomes part of the experience for people moving through the exhibition areas.
MR headsets let visitors explore three immersive exhibition zones
At the Clear Water Bay campus, 19 selected works premiered in MR-enhanced form, with visitors able to explore the space using MR headsets. The three exhibition areas—Living Currents, Future Fables, and Beyond Mind—are described as transforming the HKUST campus into an immersive, technology-driven art setting.
Cross-campus “virtual and real” connectivity is built into specific works like The Gate
The Gate is built on a metaverse concept and presented as the centerpiece, designed to create cross-campus, seamless connectivity between Clear Water Bay and Nansha. As an armillary sphere turns and a portal comes into view, visitors can step into virtual spaces of both campuses, aligning with the event’s One HKUST, Complementary Campuses framing.
Participating works use MR and AI themes ranging from bioethics to interstellar futures
The exhibition includes works that use MR and digital technologies to explore themes such as genetic modification and bioethics, including an MR recreation of GFP Bunny by Prof. Eduardo KAC. Other featured pieces incorporate AI and related digital approaches, such as Echoes of Earth 2.0 by a HKUST(GZ) PhD student, offering a forward-looking perspective on AI and interstellar civilizations, while additional works also draw on tools like LiDAR and real-time interaction for VR experiences such as Mother’s Body Remembers.

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