Yichuan (River) Wang

MY LIFE

MY LIFE is a small system about people who are not really people, and a world that keeps going whether you understand it or not.

On the big screen, things happen. Characters move, meet, stay, leave, like each other, stop liking each other, and occasionally ruin each other’s day for no obvious reason. There is no script, no intelligence behind it pretending to be profound. Just a few simple rules, repeating, colliding, and sometimes producing something that feels… almost intentional.

Next to it is a small touchscreen—the “rule book.” You can change what counts as love, what leads to conflict, what keeps someone around, or what pushes them away. The world doesn’t try to impress you when you do. It just keeps going, slightly differently.

This isn’t a statement about artificial intelligence, or a claim about simulating life. It’s probably much smaller than that. I was just curious whether meaning can show up in a system that isn’t trying to mean anything at all.

Sometimes it does. Most of the time, it doesn’t.

And it keeps running anyway.

MY LIFE
2026
4K video, Unity project
Resolution: 3840 × 2160

4K screen recording of a real-time simulation with small colored agents moving, clustering, and dispersing across a minimal landscape. Real-time agent-based simulation developed in Unity. Screenshot from video output.