CryoScapes: Landscape Painting with Water, Ice, and AI

Cryoscape began during my Arctic Circle Artist Residency in Svalbard, inspired by water's diverse forms—vapor, snow, waves, glaciers, and sea ice. We developed a 3D ice printing system to create intricate sculptures that evolve with temperature changes. Roaming water droplets freeze on hydrophobic or hydrophilic treated surfaces, forming landscapes that blur the sense of scale, from lunar terrains to microscopic crystalline patterns. A macro camera captures these formations in real-time, while AI interprets them into Haikus. Traveling to different cities, Cryoscape co-creates with local climates, questioning boundaries between artificial and natural, and offering insights into tissue engineering and microfluidics.

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2025-07-16
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https://doi.org/10.1145/3721249.3731632
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Conservation Techniques and Studies
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CryoScapes: Landscape Painting with Water, Ice, and AI

Jiabao Li, Kuan-Ju Wu, Yasuaki Kakehi, Ziyuan Jiang
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CryoScapes: Landscape Painting with Water, Ice, and AI

Jiabao Li, Kuan-Ju Wu, Yasuaki Kakehi, Ziyuan Jiang
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Abstract

Cryoscape began during my Arctic Circle Artist Residency in Svalbard, inspired by water's diverse forms—vapor, snow, waves, glaciers, and sea ice. We developed a 3D ice printing system to create intricate sculptures that evolve with temperature changes. Roaming water droplets freeze on hydrophobic or hydrophilic treated surfaces, forming landscapes that blur the sense of scale, from lunar terrains to microscopic crystalline patterns. A macro camera captures these formations in real-time, while AI interprets them into Haikus. Traveling to different cities, Cryoscape co-creates with local climates, questioning boundaries between artificial and natural, and offering insights into tissue engineering and microfluidics.

XLAB (Slovenia) (SI), The University of Texas at Austin (US)
Openalex Percentile: Top 78%
Conservation Techniques and Studies
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