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    Migrating Archives Project - 2025/6

    Commissioned by XMU Anthopology Museum, Xiamen, China 2025


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    How can a university be transported? Wandering Archive recreates the journey of Xiamen University to Changting, Fujian, in 1937. Fusing contemporary landscapes with AI characters; the machine learning prompts feature as crawling text. This version is a model for XMU Anthropology Museum exhibition Cultural Long March: The Relocation of Chinese Universities During the War of Resistance Against Japan, 2025.

    Project realisation in progress by ICI students.

    《 流浪档案 》5’ 2026 一所大学如何被迁移?《流浪档案》讲述了1937年厦门大学迁往福建长汀的故事。作品将当代景观与AI角色相融合;机器学习生成的提示语以滚动文字的形式呈现。此版本是为厦门大学人类学