Hu Di (b. 1993, Chengdu, China) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles, working across installation art, performance, and theater. She holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, an MS in Computer Science, and a BS in Physics. Before becoming an artist, she spent several years working in the technology industry. Her recent work uses multi-agent AI systems as a medium for psychological inquiry, staging relational patterns between language-model agents as participatory installations where viewers can recognize these dynamics in themselves. Her work has been shown at the Torrance Art Museum, LAAF (Łódź), and CalArts.
“I built three puppets that talk to each other, each running a different strategy for getting love. They have never been able to remember. At CultureHub I want to give them a past — one they can revisit, distort, and argue about — so that what accumulates between them is a relationship rather than a series of exchanges. And I want to build the threshold where a visitor decides whether to eavesdrop or step in, and becomes someone the puppets will remember, or misremember, tomorrow.”