Lift-Off Global Festival Sessions
November 2023
Global audiences are invited to watch true raw indie film from far and beyond.
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/newvoicesp1novft2023/
Availability: Worldwide
Four Videostalgia Films, 13.24, Dir. James Johnson-Perkins
Johnson-Perkins’ VIDEOSTALGIA works combine important and poignant places, such as: Venice, New York, Moscow, Kathmandu and Muscat. They also contain performance to camera, nostalgic music, and re-framed well known and culturally loved music and TV programs, which include remakes of 80’s songs, such as Queen’s ‘I want to break Free’, and episodes of ‘The A Team’ and ‘Knight Rider’ changed into ASCII Code and ZX Spectrum Graphics.
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Self as a Service
Space Pavilion at the 6th edition of The Wrong Biennale
November 1st. 2023
to March 1st. 2024.
https://thewrong.org/SelfAsAService
Availability: Worldwide
Beauty filters, instantly changeable avatars, cyber tribalism, new forms of stereotypes, and simulations that obscure the flaws, limitations, imperfections, and mistakes of real human beings are all the outcomes of digital reductionism and techno-capitalism.
Digital technologies were supposed to help us achieve a more egalitarian society and mobilize individuals through equal accessibility, freedom of expression, and new means of social communication and relationships. But the affordances of digital systems along with the emergence of techno-capitalism, fueled by neoliberal values and ideas, realized a radically different scenario.
Curated by Arash Akbari and Farzaneh Nouri as XOR Space. Featuring Agnieszka Pajda, Benna Gaean Maris, Bronco Wewer, Daniel Mendez Ruiz, Danny Choi, Enzo Cillo & Ambasce, Eugenia Grammenou, Gianella Cubas, Irena Paskali, Jaina Cipriano, James Johnson-Perkins, Jean-Michel Rolland, Jose Cruzio & António Caramelo, Jürgen Trautwein & Silvia Nonnenmacher, Katherina Sadovsky, Katherine Mills Rymer, Naichen Pan, Nina Sumarac, Pierre Ajavon, Ricardo Bodini, S4RA, Sarah Boulter, Sarah Lasley, Saša Nemec, Sohyun Lee, Susanne Layla Petersen, Szabina Péter & Kristóf Bodnár, Thomas Valianatos, Viviane Roi, Weiyu Chen, X.A. Li.
Realms, After Darger, China/Cambodia, 5m x 1.2m, 2023
This image began as a tribute to Henry Darger, and has the primary goal to create something ethereal and unreal. It is based in a scene, where the upper half of the image is taken in Angkor Thom, Cambodia, using a Gigapan camara, which allows for a huge panoramic image and the lower half of the image began is another similar image taken of the Terracotta Army, in Xian, China. This scene is overlaid with hundreds of Ai generated characters. Some based on the iconography of Darger and others, are of unusual and often uncanny.
Lift-off Film Festival Sessions and Self as Service Exhibition, Online, Nov 23
Butterfly Transformation
Aug 25, 2023 - Sep 8, 2023
Beijing International Design Week
Zhang Jiawan Design Center.
TongZhou, Beijing, China.
Aug 26, 2023-Sep 6, 2023
Butterflies flutter their wings. A storm is coming.
Will artificial intelligence replace or even destroy humans?
When the first steam engine "train" appeared 220 years ago, many people who were used to horse-drawn carriages fled. From today's perspective, is the train there to make people run in panic or to block the train with their bodies? Apparently neither. It waits for you to hop in the car and take you far away.
Humans cannot be surpassed by the tools they create, although sometimes they are hurt by tools, by pets. AI does have a counter-function to biological people, so that humans must completely achieve a major upgrade of the system. "Will biological people be replaced?" This question has aroused the curiosity of all mankind, and as long as the curiosity is not extinguished, the game will not be over.
For a long time, human beings sat on ox carts and slowly enjoyed the scenery along the way. If one day, human beings take the time train, we can't imagine what the scenery along the way is like, magnificent? Dark? Vast? Horror? Or you can't see anything, everything around you is beyond the scope of the human eye. The world that exists is not the world that is seen.
The artist returned to his studio to continue his work. Technology seems to be small, but the spirit it carries is extensive. Technology and spirituality are two sides of the same body. The digital effect presented by AI is only a stage effect, not a completed effect. There are many possibilities for reinvention, and there are many ways to destroy it.
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Realms，After Henry Darger, James Johnson-Perkins, 1.2mx4.5m.
This image began as a tribute to Henry Darger, and has the primary goal to create something ethereal and unreal. It is based in a scene, where the upper half of the image is taken in Angkor Thom, Cambodia, using a Gigapan camara, which allows for a huge panoramic image and the lower half of the image began is another similar image taken of the Terracotta Army, in Xian, China. This scene is overlaid with hundreds of Ai generated characters. Some based on the iconography of Darger and others, are of unusual and often uncanny subjects.
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《蝶变》数字艺术展
蝴蝶振翅，风暴将至。人工智能是否会取代人类甚至毁灭人类？
220年前第一台蒸汽机“火车”出现时，很多习惯了坐马车的人落荒而逃。从今天的视角看，火车的出现是为了让人落荒而逃还是螳臂当车？显然都不是。它等待你跳上车，带你去远方。
人类不可能被自己创造的工具超越，尽管有时会被工具所伤、被宠物所伤。AI确实对生物人有反制功能，让人类必须彻底实现一次系统大升级。“生物人是否会被取代？”这个问题激起了全人类的好奇心，只要好奇心不泯灭，游戏就结束不了。
漫长的历史，人类坐在牛车上慢慢欣赏沿途的风景。如果有一天，人类坐上时间列车，我们想象不到沿途的风景是怎样的，壮美？玄奇？浩瀚？恐怖？或是什么都看不到，周围的一切超出了人眼的感光范畴。存在的世界不是被看到的世界。
艺术家回到自己的画室继续工作。技术似乎是渺小的，它承载的灵性又是博大的，技术与灵性本是一体两面。AI所呈现的数字化效果，只是一个阶段的效果，并非完成的效果。这里面有很多混合再造的可能性，其中也不乏破坏的方式。
未来皆有可能，皆无定性。
喻高
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"Material Thinking" 1st International Contemporary Material Art Biennale, China, Dec 22-Mar 23
"Material Thinking" 1st International Contemporary Material Art Biennale
The first International Contemporary Material Art Biennale is
organised by the Art Institute of the Department of Art and Design,
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Along with changes in the environment, population, geography, and economy, the textual approach adopted by this cultural shift has become increasingly inadequate for an understanding of contemporary society. Therefore, we are delighted to discover that materialism has set off again in this new era. A wave of New Materialism has emerged, which allows us to re-understand material and emphasize the role of material factors in shaping society and expressing human vision.
New materialism focuses on the latest physics and biology research results, re-examines our inert understanding of matter, and gives it a dynamic, sporadic, and spiritual side. The theory of materialism investigates the impact of materiality that shapes our lives, relationships with ourselves, others, and the world. It reviews the anthropocentrism** advocated by modernity, turning into post-humanism for ecological development. In the new materialists' eyes, materialization is a complex, diverse, and relatively open process. Progress of the materialized production immersed human beings. Therefore, materiality should be given its due status and then used to intervene in the analysis and rethink social politics, such as material culture, geopolitical space, critical realism, critical international political economy, globalization, and environmentalism. The new materialism provides a philosophical vision and academic frontier support constructing contemporary material art theory and value.
Tsinghua University, Haitian Sky Art Center, Qingdao, China
Dec 27th, Feb 2nd 2022/23
Beijing Nanchizi Museum
Feb 17th - 5th Mar 2022/23