The Firework

WE ARE: Explosion Event for PST ART

I worked as an intern on this project created by Cai Guo-Qiang in collaboration with his custom-developed AI model, cAI™.  My role:  technical drafting, onsite operation and construction manual design

Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
September 15, 2024

This daytime firework event was a large-scale interdisciplinary performance combining art, technology, and engineering. Utilizing approximately 50,000 daytime fireworks, 1,300 drones, nearly 4,000 bamboo poles, and close to 10,000 airbursts, WE ARE created a grand spectacle for AI’s dimensionality reduction to “reveal heavenly secrets,” and attempted to convey the response to the question “What is the fate of humanity with AI?” in a language comprehensible to humans. WE ARE was commissioned and presented by the Getty, in collaboration with the University of Southern California.