劉 庭均
LIU, TING CHUN
Interpolation of the Invisible Color
Curatorial Practice, Interactive Installation
In collaboration with Leon-Etienne Kühr, commissioned by Storage Museum Düsseldorf
2025
Marcel Duchamp described the title of the artwork as an invisible color (Welchman, 1997), pigments that bypass the eye and speak directly to the mind. This formulation moves aesthetic experiences beyond visual input toward context. The label of an artwork, the narrative provided by the artist, the exhibition histories, all serve as extensions of this invisible pigment. They shape how we read, value, and even dismiss what is presented to our eye.
Selected Artists Information: https://storagemuseum.org/en/program/6-ausstellung
Storage Museum in Düsseldorf holds in time of the project 479 works, physically spread across 10 shelves, and digitalized as data represented by image, title, artist's name, size, and notes from the staff. This arrangement is serendipitous and serves as an archive of the staff’s expertise and labor, distilled into 10 shelves. We used embeddings as technical approach to curation, an AI technique that converts information into numbers that computers can compare. Similar method that enables tools like ChatGPT, Google search, and AI image generators, allowing machines to measure similarity and find patterns across different types of data. This process ran entirely locally, with no cloud services to keep the collection's data protected.
However, AI is simple. It finds mathematical correlations, draws lines between things that appear together. But correlation is not causation, and pattern constitutes no meaning. Data, however detailed, can never fully represent the physical objects or the embodied experiences working with them. AI is a tool, not a replacement for artistic practice and curatorial expertise. The algorithm offers one way to wander through the collection, discovering unexpected neighbors, and suggests: these things seem related, but it cannot tell you why or what that means.
Storage Museum Archive:
https://storagemuseum.org/en/database
