I developed work on school violence and reflected on the spirit of the rule of law that China lacks. This has led to speculative factors in the thesis work, originating from the combination of software tools, including TouchDesigner (research into human-computer interaction) and Cinema 4D (research into the use of virtual data to reproduce real life). Starting from a sense of crisis, the focus is on new ways of thinking and acting, necessitating a new recognition of the future.
About 250 years ago, during the Industrial Revolution, manual work turned into mechanical work, 120 years ago, during the Second Industrial Revolution, electricity was the catalyst, and 60 years ago it was the beginning of the computer revolution. Belief in death and the afterlife, the nature of the universe and man's position in the universe, and the moral principles that guide our individual and public behavior, have always been the objects of my artistic research. The manual treatment of influence in digital media/video represents the return of technology to the film era before the 19th century, when people generally used hand-painted and hand-animation.
At the turn of the 20th century, films began to put these artificial techniques into animation. Pencil marks reflect differently in the sun, showing different blackness, texture of oil painting strokes, watercolor and light painting effect on paper.
VIDEOS
Red Scarf
Bully
Fish Storm
Recently I had an idea: "I won't say a word in a year." All communication with others is expressed through another medium. This medium can be cell phone text messages, phone calls, or video calls such as Zoom, Skype, etc., which prohibit personal communication with others. One of my main concerns is that in this future lifestyle we can only exist in a virtualized form.
Second, because of changes in the medium of expression, our language system will exist in a new way. In the piece titled, bullet-screen comments, what I want to discuss is that in the current cultural context, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, people do not have a space or a way to express themselves, only in social chat groups like eg. twitter, WeChat and Instagram to release themselves. When I talk face to face, I can't change what I said, I can only focus on a certain sentence.
For me, because I'm used to expressing myself through the screen, it somewhat affects my normal face-to-face communication with people, so sometimes I freeze when I talk to people in person. The form of language in the virtual space has changed the form of expression of real dialogue.
Bullet
In the past few years, China's cities have been flooded with shared bicycles, which provide millions of office workers with a means of transportation from subway stations to offices. According to iMedia Research, in 2019 there were more than 23 million such bicycles on the streets of major Chinese cities such as Beijing and Shanghai. My video shows Andy Warhol's soup can and Damien Hirst's "for the love of God".
The cart in the video represents us as individuals lost in this material age and each looking for their own position in this material age. I have added many products to my amazon cart, but all I really need are just a few.
Bike Forest
Protein Fantasy
According to the speed of computer development, scientists calculate that by 2045, the computing speed of a computer will exceed the total intelligence of all human beings. And because of the rapid development of computer technologies, there is explosive growth in other areas, such as medical devices. In the past, people thought it would take 100 years to read DNA, but due to the rapid development of computers, it took only 13 years to read most of the DNA information.
Not Far From Life
Influential Artists
34; When people let their bodies exceed the limits of their tolerance, people's consciousness will take a leap. When one's creation reaches a painful critical point, focusing on one thing will make me more transcendent.” Joseph Beuys and Nam June Paik are the founders of performance art and media art.
People who create new development in the future will definitely give people new sensations with the help of new technology and equipment. She focuses on her own identity and discusses her body, which leads me to focus on my own differences. We are not very different in age, so we have very similar life experiences and have very similar problems.
She thinks that making art can make people very brave and able to say what they cannot say. So, every time she looks back at her own work, she can see a different self. Its meaning does not lie in what you remember, but it can now become a mirror for you that has the function of warning and encouraging you.
Going beyond the works of art, a discussion begins about the purpose of the art. By striving to make life itself a work of art, and art not only appearing in a physical form, various questions arise. When talking about her performance art, she describes it as almost "self-abuse", she once said:.
PRINTS
When you look closely, you can only see a number of straight lines of different thicknesses, and it is difficult to capture what the whole picture depicts from a distance. Only when you pick up the mobile phone to take a picture, you can clearly see the content of the picture through the high resolution picture of your mobile phone. This kind of different perspective, different way of looking at my printed work, is the interesting place of this work.
This kind of emphasis and reality, variable angles, is also the effect I want to achieve and express. Combining them with what I have tried to transform from signal culture and the video track, these prints emerge as follows. This kind of emptiness and reality, from different angles, is also the effect I want to pursue and express.
In my photos, I can see many double or triple shadows, some parallel and some crossed.
Afred Memory
Memories of Alfred》：Having spent two years at Alfred, I experienced a different world of art here from where I was born. People want to follow common sense, so I went to religion to find the answer. As a person who was born and raised by the sea, I hope my heart is calm, tolerant and inclusive.
In China, one of the meanings is that it is born in silt, but there is no trace of soil after flowering. Just like the background of the work is also a pair of withered lotuses, and the withered lotus in winter will open again in June of the following year, indicating the reincarnation of life, which is the second meaning of lotus.
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