Embryos
Clay, epoxy, photo transfer on canvas
160 x 210 cm
2025


Embryos is a mixed media collage of clay and an intense display of AI-generated images of embryos. In the making of this artwork, the artist casts artificial intelligence in a similar role as a queen ant within a colony. A queen ant produces all the ants within a colony, a single source of life from which the superorganism is born and sustained. In the artwork, Wong poses AI as the mother to dozens of digital babies, alluding to the technology’s growing role as a means of creation in the prevailing era. The artwork elucidates another similarity between the queen ant and AI, in that both are served and fed by its offspring – the former with food, and the latter with content and data. As one produces, it is simultaneously nourished, ultimately shaping a feedback loop driven and perpetuated by autonomous production.


《Embryos》（2025）是由黏土和人工智能生成的胚胎圖像密集拼貼而成的混合媒介作品。創作過程中，藝術家將人工智能比作蟻群中的蟻后。蟻后產出所有螞蟻，是 唯一的生命來源，藉而孕育並維持這超級有機體。在作品中，黃將人工智能塑造成數十個數位嬰兒的母親，暗指科技在當今時代的創造手段中成為日益重要的角色。作品更闡明了蟻后與人工智能的另一相似之處，即兩者都由其後代提供服務和養分——前者以食物，後者則以內容和數據。它在創造的同時亦獲得滋養，最終形成一個由自主生產所驅動和延續的反饋循環。