Artist Biography:

Lien-cheng Wang is a media artist and educator based in Taipei, whose practice spans installation art and real-time audio-visual performance. His early works examined materiality and Taiwan’s relationship to globalization, while his recent projects investigate the conditions of machine-mediated society. In performance, he focuses on algorithmic systems that generate sound and visuals in real time. His works have been presented internationally at major festivals and institutions, including Ars Electronica, New Technological Art Award, Les Journées GRAME, MADATAC, and Digital Art Festival Taipei.

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Description:

Moral Machine is an installation exploring ethical training and image-based judgment. The space is divided into three zones. In one, religious statues (Buddhist, Catholic, Taoist, Hindu) move on motorized platforms. In another, cameras film the statues in real time; an AI evaluates whether the images are “moral.” Statues shift away from areas labeled “immoral,” maintaining a moral appearance.

In the third zone, viewers judge AI-transformed images (statues rendered as animals), feeding their decisions back into the system, which in turn alters the AI’s moral criteria.

The artwork reveals a recursive loop: while religion is often seen as a moral symbol, AI may read it as immoral. When viewers’ judgments are based on AI-generated images, moral value becomes fluid and absurd. This system questions the rationality of machine ethics and the plasticity of morality under technological mediation.