RUNZE FENG​

This real-time generative installation interrogates human intervention in natural systems through the lens of landscape painting tradition. Situated within Weimar's historic Ilm Park at Der Stern, the work employed pneumatic machinery to materialize an ethereal cloud stratum at terrestrial level — a technologically mediated landscape painting created in situ.​ Participants co-authored the ephemeral composition via interactive sensor, each brushstroke generating transient cloud formations with a deliberate 10-second lifespan before dissolution. This durational act of collective creation mirrors the cyclical temporality inherent in natural phenomena.

Beyond its phenomenological engagement, the project positions the landscape canvas as a conceptual framework to examine:

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- Technology as an extension of anthropogenic influence

- Nature's evolving status as a culturally constructed paradigm

- The perpetual tension between preservation and entropy within ecological consciousness

 

The disappearing/reappearing cloud motif manifests nature's vulnerability to human agency while critiquing its contemporary existence as an increasingly mediated experience within the Anthropocene narrative.