Co-creating Digital Fireworks to Ignite Art Macao Dynamic Momentum
[July 19, 2025, Macau] MGM continues to bridge art and innovation by creating a dynamic platform for inter-disciplinary exchange. This year, MGM once again partners with internationally acclaimed contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang and his bespoke AI model cAI™ to present the special exhibition cAI™ Lab 2.0 – Is It Your Gaze That Meets Mine, or Mine That Seeks Yours?. Held in the newly unveiled multi-purpose space Fantasy Box, the special exhibition is a featured highlight of Art Macao: Macao International Art Biennale 2025 (hereafter “Art Macao 2025").
The exhibition’s central installation, Is It Your Gaze That Meets Mine, or Mine That Seeks Yours? which draws inspiration from the “observer effect" in quantum physics. Taking the audience as both input and catalyst in the computational process, the installation forms a continuous “chain of thought" that evolves throughout the exhibition. This dynamic interaction ignites a new kind of digital fireworks designed to evoke emotional and sensory resonance. Every visitor becomes a co-creator in this immersive experiment of “seeing and being seen." Each gaze and reaction activates cAI™’s live simulation mechanism, with its evolving computational pathways displayed in real time on the “Quantum State Bulletin Board."
Drawing from nearly 80,000 digital fireworks gathered from audience interactions during cAI™: Soul Scan—cAI™’s world debut solo exhibition in 2024 presented by MGM—the upgraded cAI™ 2.0 analyzes human behavior, simulates emotional responses, and activates a “firework function" to co-create a digital fireworks experience. The exhibition not only resonates with the spirit of Art Macao 2025 and its theme “Hey, what brings you here?", but also pushes the boundaries human–algorithm collaboration into a new realm of inter-species interaction, merging digital art and artificial intelligence in a bold new cultural journey. It further reinforces Macau’s role as a cultural and creative hub and energizes the city’s artistic landscape with new momentum.
Other interactive installations continue to explore the exhibition’s core theme—connecting humans and AI, reality and virtuality, the ephemeral and the eternal. Upon entering, visitors encounter the cAI™ Observational Corridor, featuring twelve conceptual projects inspired by cAI™’s contemplative explorations of “beyond human." For example, cAI™ Hotline invites audiences to converse with cAI™ and receive a personalized love poem. Additionally, Daytime Fireworks Collaboration with cAI™, a 2024 interactive installation debuted at Soul Scan returns with new iterations to generate new designs from the public’s creativity, creating dynamic evolution with cAI™.
The opening ceremony, held today (July 19), was officiated by a distinguished line-up of guests: Bai Bing, Deputy Director of the Department of Publicity and Culture of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the Macao SAR; Leong Wai Man, President of the Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Macao SAR Government; Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, Director of the Macao Government Tourism Office; Kenneth Feng, President and Executive Director of MGM China Holdings Limited and Cai Guo-Qiang, the exhibition’s curator.
Kenneth Feng, said, “Our partnership with Cai began in 2019, leading in cAI™’s global debut exhibition in Macau’s Barra District in 2024. The interactive daytime fireworks created by audiences during that exhibition were transformed into a digital fireworks database, forming the foundation for this year’s special exhibition in our newly unveiled Fantasy Box. Here, audiences play an integral role in the creative process, driving the organic evolution of art through participation while redefining the boundaries of artistic expression. Through the theme ‘you in me, and me in you’, this exhibition fosters cultural diversity and boundless artistic collaboration."
Cai Guo-Qiang, shared, “Macau holds a special place in my heart—a city where Mazu and the gods gather, where fortune and the unknown walk hand in hand. From Soul Scan to today’s cAI™ Lab 2.0, this city has always welcomed ideas that feel a little magical, a little uncanny. It continues to support the artistic adventures of human Cai and cAI™ as we seek out the divine and chase the spectral together."
Held at MGM MACAU’s Fantasy box, the exhibition is free and open to the public from July 20 to September 22. To extend the artistic experience beyond the walls, MGM MACAU will also launch a line of limited-edition cultural creative merchandise while Pastry Bar is offering themed culinary treats inspired by the fireworks.
