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A LITTLE BIT
ABOUT
FIELD RESEARCH

With a foundation in rigorous physical science research,

Kai-Yu explores quantum entanglement and ultrafast optics, developing femtosecond laser systems to probe molecular dynamics. She also collaborates with scientists to create performative artworks that embody and express complex scientific processes.

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Collaboration with Theoretical Astrophysics Lab – Star Formation (2023-ongoing)

本計畫源自研究恆星形成與太陽系早期演化的天文學家李悅寧與物理學研究者/當代舞蹈創作者林楷育的合作與進駐

From 2023–2024, we collaborated with a theoretical astrophysicist whose research focuses on the physics of star formation. The project began with a live public dialogue held at an active astronomical observatory, where we explored the intersection of scientific imagination and embodied knowledge.

Over the following year, we continued the exchange through shared studio sessions, developing a choreographic response to astrophysical concepts such as gravitational collapse, interstellar turbulence, and proto-stellar evolution. The collaboration culminated in a performance work that translated complex stellar dynamics into gesture, rhythm, and spatial composition—rendering the invisible forces of the cosmos temporarily perceptible through the moving body.

Research Residency with Gravitational Wave Observatory and Quantum Optics Lab (2023–2025)

From 2023 to 2024, I undertook a research-based residency with the Gravitational Wave Observatory, collaborating with artists and their scientific partners from various Taiwan-based research laboratories, such as the Quantum Optics Lab. Together, we explored the aesthetics of gravitational waves and black hole mergers through the lenses of quantum light and interferometry. During this time, I simultaneously worked on my creative projects while also participating in the measurement of gravitational wave data. Through ongoing discussions with scientists and access to experimental data, I developed a body of work that explored how the detection of gravitational waves could be translated into movement, sound, and spatial experiences. The residency culminated in a multimedia exhibition at the National Museum of Natural Science, followed by a performance that translated gravitational wave data into choreographic form.

Ultrafast Laser Research and Development (2015-2020)

Kai-Yu focuses her research on demonstrating novel techniques for generating ultrashort femtosecond pulse lasers and their applications in capturing the fastest dynamics in molecules. She found herself particularly engaged with projects involving the build-up of an ultrafast fiber laser system. Her current research centers on the development of a high-power femtosecond fiber Chirped-Pulse Amplification (CPA) system.

Kaiyu LIN and Torcal -Laboratory Resonances

Laboratory Resonances: Acoustic Landscapes of the Epistemic Scaffold

feat. Torcal

We’ve formed a team of young physicists, sound artists, and performing artists to embark on Laboratory Resonances, a sound research project exploring the acoustic landscapes of scientific infrastructures—where silence is designed, and noise becomes data.

Through field recordings inside active research environments—including rooftop antenna decks, nitrogen cooling tanks, computer clusters, and quantum electronics labs—we listen not only to the sounds of machines but to the epistemological systems they sustain. Each location becomes a sonic portrait of scientific presence: the hum of helium compressors, the resonance of superconducting transitions, the subtle tremors of vibrating floors, and the rhythmic pulse of computation. Part poetic document, part acoustic archive, Laboratory Resonances positions listening as a fundamental method to access the invisible infrastructures of scientific labor—revealing their rhythms, textures, and the strange musicality inherent in the pursuit of precision itself.

Microbe Empathy Performance: Interdisciplinary Dialogue between AS Scientists & Artist _ "Practice of Microbe Empathy — Micro-imagery & Optical Microscopy X Improvisation"

✦ 微生物共情演出 ✦ 本計畫透過媒體介入與跨物種實驗，探討生物在人類文化與權力結構中的「缺席」與「再現」

Microbial Sitcoms: Hacking the Interspecies Interface (2025) feat. Mark Wang. Since the Stone Age, the power dynamics between humans and nonhumans have fluctuated between domestic inclusion and marginalization. Due to their microscopic scale, microorganisms have remained "absent" from human cultural activity. This project initiates a critical experiment: through scientific collaboration, we treat microorganisms as living data to develop a media system encompassing moving images, sculptures, installations, and live performances.

At the core of the installation is a dual-function projection interface: it serves as both a narrative output for the audience and a literal energy source for the photosynthetic microorganisms. This technical intervention blurs the boundary between cultural production and biological metabolism, merging them into a single media ecosystem. Within this "Microscopic Theater," microbes are encoded as sitcom characters to challenge contemporary species ethics through absurd narratives. By critiquing how digital power structures dominate the representation of life, the final microbial essay film invites audiences into an unstable theater to recalibrate our connection with the "miniature Other."

Interspecies Performance — Eco-sonic Symbiosis — An interspecies and cross-cultural perfor

Interspecies Performance — Eco-sonic Symbiosis — An interspecies performance exploring the intersection of biological improvisation, electronic synthesis, and science-based collaboration

✦ 共聲態 ✦ 跨物種演出是一場「主體性」的去中心化實驗，
透過聲音媒介，將植物、真菌、科學物件與人類表演者編織進同一個不穩定的生態網絡

feat. with. 林楷育(科學物件)、關島種彥 (JP)、DSLB (NZ)、vegetable.machine.animal (NZ)、Chang Deng-yaoet.al. et.al.

Symbiophony: Interspecies Sonic Circuits. This project reconfigures the stage as a multi-species laboratory, where sound acts as a sensory interface between divergent biological and technical agents. Moving beyond human-centric performance, Symbiophony facilitates a radical interspecies collaboration. By employing the vegetable.machine.animal (VMA) methodology, living data—biopotentials from plants and fungi—is harvested and transcoded into control voltage. This process allows nonhuman organisms to actively modulate modular synthesizers, effectively granting them agency within the sonic landscape.

The performance operates as a dynamic feedback loop: while human performers (on violin, erhu, and electronics) respond to the shifting biological rhythms, the science objects and plasma experiments introduce stochastic environmental variables. In this trans-species improvisation, vibration becomes the common language through which breath, mycelial activity, and electronic oscillation identify one another. This is not just a concert, but an enactment of a temporary sonic dreamscape—a manifestation of coexistence where sound emerges as a tangible form of interspecies encounter and shared survival.

Residency at KEK｜高エネルギー加速器研究機構, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization – Belle II (2015)

科學研究工作：日本高能物理加速器研究機構(KEK) Belle-II 計畫-於中央飄移室偵測器參與研究工作

During my two-month residency at KEK in Tsukuba, Japan, we participated in the Belle II experiment, contributing to the development of the Central Drift Chamber (CDC) detector. Immersed in the collaborative research environment, we engaged with international scientists and engineers, gaining hands-on experience in high-energy particle detection technologies and deepening our understanding of experimental particle physics.

Quantum Optics

which is focusing on Quantum Physics: generation of quantum noise squeezed states.

[Wave-particle duality 波粒二象性]

2020-ongoing

Ultrafast pulse laser - Chirped Pulse amplification system

Figure. The CPA technique revolutionized laser technology. It enabled the emission of very intense, short pulses of light using an intricate method to avoid the risk of destroying the amplifying material. Instead of amplifying the light pulse directly, it is first stretched in time, reducing its peak power. Then the pulse is amplified and when it is compressed more light is collected in the same place – the light pulse becomes extremely intense.

[1] D. Strickland and G. Mourou, Compression of amplified chirped optical pulses, Opt. Commun. 56, 219 (1985).