Digiscape - Beneath the signal

- 2025

Project Type | Interactive Installation

Credits:

Visual Design | Ke Jyun Wu
Sound Design | Nick Tsai

👉👉Click here for more projects from the Digiscape series 👈👈

One day at an exhibition, a visitor leaned in and asked,
“Did you know that plants can communicate with each other?”

At first, I laughed—honestly, I thought it was a joke. (I know, I’m bad)

But that one question stuck with me.
So I looked it up.
And what I found completely blew my mind.

There’s this vast, hidden network under the soil,
connecting plants and fungi like an underground internet.
It’s called the mycelium network, and it’s been there the whole time—quiet, alive, and listening.
( If you’re interested what it is, check this out: The Secret Language of Trees )

I knew right then:
“I need to make this into a piece.”

While I was deep in this rabbit hole, I came across Playtronica’s Biotron, a device that can pick up tiny shifts in electrical resistance when a plant is touched.
Basically, it gives plants a voice in the digital world.
When I saw it, I knew instantly: this is it.
We connected, and this collaboration became the foundation of this work.

But what I love most?
🌿✨The Terrarium 🌿✨
I had it custom-mad e because I wanted it to feel like real forest soil.
When you reach in to touch the moss, the scent clings to your fingers—a grassy, earthy aroma that lingers like a memory.
It’s a tiny patch of forest, right there in front of you.

And when the terrarium is wired to Biotron, everything links together.
Every touch becomes a signal.
A whisper from the physical world that ripples into the digital one, nurturing the virtual flora growing on screen.

This work isn’t trying to explain something deep or complex.
It’s just here to share a little wonder—something quietly extraordinary hiding in the everyday.