Covolab

humanity · AI · self

A gallery of conversations between humans, machines, and my selves.

Conversation may be one of the oldest human arts.

Long before writing, we learned to project worlds from one mind into another through dialogue — not only through what was said, but through tone, hesitation, silence, and contradiction.

As technology increasingly occupies the spaces where conversations once happened, I want to collect and preserve moments of dialogue — between humans, machines, and selves — like photographs, field notes, or specimens from a changing ecosystem, for reflection, appreciation, and learning.

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NO. 014 · opened 14 may

Does a thought I can only think in one language belong to me, or to the language?

一個我只能用一種語言想出來的念頭,究竟屬於我,還是屬於那個語言?

A feeling written in Chinese refused to cross when translated. Not because the words do not exist, but because the shape of the feeling was the shape of the grammar.

An illustrated man reclines in a motel room while speaking into a telephone under warm lamplight. no. 015

Human ↔ Human

Not in the Sense You Mean.

不是你以為的那種在。

A phone call in No Country for Old Men, and how human conversation can make meaning arrive before the words do.

A cyclist moving through a dark arched corridor toward light. no. 014

Me ↔ Me

In Between.

在中間。

A Chinese monologue poem about walking between conservatism and radicalism, objectivity and subjectivity, reason and feeling.

A warm desk at night with a laptop, lamp, and papers. no. 09

Human ↔ AI

The model that agreed too quickly.

一個太快同意我的模型。

A small failure of disagreement, and what it revealed about sycophancy.