_POND is a robotic arm installation interacting with Arduino and wireless power settings to visualise Dystopia Garden from the artist Jiayi Su's perspective.

The garden, as a form of pursuit of a better world, in the context of Technological Dystopianism, can make people rethink the goal of high morality and connect the narrative of the relationship between science and technology and humanity. Dystopia in the garden may serve as an aesthetic guide and lead people to relate their context to the relevant issues.

Man-made Artificial and natural things in the ruins of the Heterotopia/Dystopia constitute the natural world environment of the main body. Humans long for the good but do know not greed. When the desire is amplified by technology, the soul becomes a cheap trade tool. So, does the world of truth, goodness, and beauty exist? And the so-called pursuit is just like the movie, Matrix, described, just an illusion to control human beings' minds?

Inspired by the Chinese Garden's elemental composition, mountain and water, the artist utilised the Ancient Chinese Poetry Ode to Lotus Lovers as a metaphor to elaborate this macro narrative. Jiayi Su would use this as the metaphor because the author's affirmation and pursuit of the ideal personality reflect the author's contempt for the greed for riches and honour, the quest for fame and wealth of the world's psychology and its pursuit of clean and good sentiment. If considered lotus as a symbol, people may think it represents a sacred of purity and the transcendence that the human spirit is over worldly matter, particularly in Confucianism.

Jiayi Su would like to create a lotus pond using artificial materials for the installation and aesthetic part. She utilised technologies like 3D printing and laser cutting for the lotus shape and ripple. Lotus leaves, the wireless electronic power panel encasing a similar form in a biopunk style, are intertwined by iron wires and cables and surrounded by heat-shrinking tubes (the lotus stem). Meanwhile, aquarium bio sponge filters cover the lotus base, and the fluorescent green nylon cables also tie with some of them. Half-transparent green and black acrylic boards at the bottom correspond to the leading tone of the whole installation.

As for interaction, the artist considered the robotic arm of the junkyard scrap magnet as a metaphor for human nature. The robotic arm is instructed to the common sense of the society, which is eager to chase fortune (individual/economic aspect), neglecting nature and human rights (political aspect), etc. To simulate the junkyard scrap magnet as closely as possible, the artist prefers found objects to make. She uses the spray cap to contain the magnet that draws some nails as exterior decoration, roughly twining the wireless electronic coils. Also, the artist alters the PIR motion sensor as the variable to control the switch of the wireless power panel to indirectly turn on/off the wireless LED light beads, which are glued on the 3D-printed lotus flower. In this case, the robotic arm can attract the wireless light beads in the sand and interact with the PIR motion sensor to create a narrative corresponding to the philosophy of the Dystopian Garden.

For the scenario, the artist set up three stages in UFACTORY system, from simple testing the lotus to more aggressive interactions to finally giving up, ending with the drop of the magnet. Jiayi Su also composes the sound part to give the audience a better immersion experience and understand the topic better. She utilised many synthesiser elements to orchestrate the music and artistically digitised Siri's reading of Ode to Lotus Lovers to create a mysterious atmosphere of the Dystopia Garden.