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Tuning a 1987 CRT into the denoising steps of an ecology

Diffusion TV

Sihwa Park rebuilt a 1987 GoldStar television so its antenna controls the denoising stages of generated ecological scenes: move the antenna and noise resolves into extinct, endangered and speculative organisms across Past, Present and Future channels.

By Sihwa Park

See Diffusion TV

Read the SIGGRAPH interview

Hardware and software detail

Official project page

Made With Models illustration of a 1980s CRT television floating in a dark field, its antenna bent like a tuning fork, leaves, wings and spores resolving out of static on the phosphor screen; this is not a photo of the installation. — A look at the result

What it does

Watch a physical metaphor made real: an antenna tuning the denoising steps of a generated ecology.

Who it helps

People interested in hardware, interactive art and new uses for old objects.

How it was made

Models: SDXL image sequences · pre-generated; the antenna maps to their denoising states — creator-reported
Stable Audio Open · pre-generated sound — creator-reported
Tools: 1987 GoldStar CRT · Housing and antenna control
Raspberry Pi · Interactive playback of model states

Park rebuilt the 1987 television and mapped its antenna to the denoising stages of the generated scenes — turning a physical control into a model control.
The Raspberry Pi does not run live diffusion inference: Park pre-generated SDXL image sequences and Stable Audio Open sound; the antenna selects their states.
First exhibited at ISEA 2025, documented at SIGGRAPH and in a September 2026 paper — three channels across Past, Present and Future ecologies.

What the person did

Park designed the hardware control, the channel structure and the ecological framing; the model states were pre-generated and mapped by hand.

What we know

Creator-reported: The official project page, the SIGGRAPH interview and the September 2026 paper; the pre-generated model-state detail is documented in the paper.

Access checked — 2026-09-28 · Opened the project page, the SIGGRAPH interview and the paper on 2026-09-28.

Can you use it?

The artist’s images are copyright Sihwa Park; we link only and host no media. The work is interactive playback of model states, not live inference. The cover is an original Made With Models illustration, not a photo of the installation.

About this project

Picked by Made With Models. Added 2026-09-28. Updated 2026-09-28.

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