As the pandemic escalates and the virus propagates, fear spreads at an exponential rate. Human contact becomes luxurious, and virtual connection becomes the quotidian. When’s your next online meeting? And – hello, metaverse. Can we ensure that the other world is not infected by the virus?

Since the rise of social media, the speed at which information are disseminated has been increasing at a mega scale. Massive amount of human-to-human chains transmit information at lightning speed like viruses. The virtual world has actually been invaded by all kinds of viruses for a long time. We would contract a virus and recover, and before long another piece of information would be transmitted; and this process would repeat itself again and again. As with the fatal viruses and bacteria that had caused the most recent pandemics in history, we have long since learned to co-exist with this predicament.

GO BACTERIA! transforms data from social media into a mechanical installation, in which the transmission of data determines the appearances and movements of the machines. Sets of bionic machinery reflect the spread and changes of information, and also set the scene for a bacterial contest-cum-showcase.

Collaborated with Fung Wing Lam.


疫症蔓延時伴隨著病毒的散播，恐懼同時也以幾何式擴散開，人與人之間的接觸變得奢侈，在虛擬世界的交流更進⼀步成為新的日常，網上會議亦好，元宇宙亦好，我們能否確保另⼀世界不會被病毒侵擾？

社交媒體興起後，資訊傳播速度急劇加快，⼀道⼀道人與人之間的傳播鏈，把資訊像病毒般短時間傳播出去，虛擬世界其實早被各種不同的病毒攻佔。我們受感染、然後康復，另⼀種資訊又傳播到來，不斷重複，跟歷史上幾次大流行的致命病毒、病菌⼀樣，我們早已習慣與他們共存。

《去吧！病菌們》將社交媒體上的訊息轉化成機械裝置，訊息傳播影響著機械裝置的形象及律動，⼀組組的仿⽣機械展現出訊息的擴散及轉變，組成⼀場病菌們的競技與展示。