C.C.P.U & Soft Collapse Accepted for SIGGRAPH ASIA 2026

We are thrilled to share that Soft Collapse, made in collaboration with Daniel Stempfer, and C.C.P.U, made in collaboration with Li Rongxing, have been accepted to the SIGGRAPH ASIA 2026 Art Gallery in Kuala Lumpur. The conference will be taking place from 2 – 4 December 2026.

CCPU: Cosmotechnical Central Processing Unit is a functioning, bitcoin-mining computer whose cooling system—over a hundered stacked metal lamellae coated in thermo-active film and pierced by copper heat pipes—is sculpted into the form of a Chinese Taihu scholar rock that visibly shimmers and shifts in colour as it registers the processor’s real-time temperature fluctuations, achieving a working fusion of high-performance thermal engineering and responsive material aesthetics that rearticulates the literati’s contemplative stone through computational logic to propose a post-Anthropocene object where extraction, dissipation, and contemplation converge into a single breathing geology.

Soft Collapse brings Chinese scholar’s rocks (gongshi 供石) into dialogue with 3D‑printed woven shells, framing geological erosion and digital weaving as distinct yet comparable systems shaped by countless discrete, binary operations whose accumulated traces become culturally legible as meaning across radically different timescales.