Choi Ping Him

The city of bustling traffic unfolds before the eyes
0'22"
Media Art
2025
Inspired by maps of urban fabric and traditional Chinese landscape painting, the artist employs digital techniques to compose streets and buildings into a 22-second monochrome loop animation. This piece recreates the repetitive pulse of fast-paced urban life while transforming the city's texture into a vibrant rhythmic image. This work's choice of subject differs from the natural appearance of traditional landscape painting, boldly drawing inspiration from the urban environment. Using a monochromatic palette to reconstruct the aesthetics of traditional Chinese landscape painting, this work evokes the timeless artistic conception of classical ink landscapes.

This innovative perspective not only injects a new interpretation into Chinese cultural narratives but also presents an artistic exploration of the fusion between tradition and modernity.



Artist  Statement
Tom Choi is a Hong Kong-based media artist, active across visual arts, sound, light, and computational practices. His interdisciplinary projects strive to blur and dissolve the boundaries between mediums. By treating code simultaneously as a tool and a creative material, he explores how computation reshapes human perception and social relations, prompting conceptual reflections on agency, authorship, and the systems operating behind everyday experience.

choipinghim@gmail.com