Profile
Hao Liu (Leo) is a cross-media designer and artist based in London and Hangzhou. He has an interdisciplinary background in art and computational technologies. He completed his BA in Visual Communication Design and earned an MSc in Creative Robotics from the Creative Computing Institute at the University of the Arts London. His work focuses on human–computer interaction, computational creativity, and cross-media art.
He works across branding, installation art, interactive design, and digital media. He is especially interested in how technology shapes bodily perception, spatial storytelling, and artistic expression. He has also worked as a visual designer for several companies, contributing to brand and government cultural projects.
His work has received several international and national awards, including the WorldStar Student Awards, MUSE Design Awards, IDA Design Awards, China Star Design Award, C-IDEA Design Award, and DNA Paris Design Awards. His projects have also been exhibited at events such as the Peru International Design Biennial.
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CV # Installation & Interaction
Embodied Magnetism
Embodied Magnetism is an interactive performance-based installation that explores embodied encounters between the human body and magnetic forces through robotic mediation. The project investigates how performers respond when invisible physical forces—rather than choreographic instructions—actively shape movement. By positioning magnetism as an external yet perceptible force, the work reframes improvisation as a continuous negotiation between attraction, resistance, and bodily adaptation.
The system consists of a robotic arm carrying a magnetic sphere and a dancer-worn pneumatic interface embedded with magnetic sensors and artificial muscles. As the robotic arm moves through space, it generates a dynamic magnetic field that varies in position and intensity. When the magnetic field reaches defined thresholds, the wearable system activates pneumatic muscles that inflate and contract, producing direct pressure feedback on the dancer’s body. This feedback is not symbolic or visual, but physically felt, allowing magnetic forces to operate as an active choreographic agent.
Rather than performing a fixed choreography, the dancer engages in a real-time dialogue with the magnetic environment. Movement emerges through continuous bodily negotiation—stepping toward attraction, resisting repulsion, and responding to involuntary muscular contraction. By transforming magnetism from an abstract phenomenon into a tangible bodily experience, Embodied Magnetism demonstrates how robotic systems, physical forces, and the human body can co-create movement, proposing magnetic force as a new choreographic medium in contemporary performance practice.
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