施政新作亮相UCCA Edge秋季大展“集光片羽”

集光片羽

The Pieces I Am

2022.09.30 - 2023.01.08

策展人 Curator：

韩馨逸(Han Xinyi)、唐誉祯(Tang Yuzhen)、龙星如(Long Xingru)

艺术家 Artists：

大卫·奥瑞利(David OReilly)、帕斯卡尔·伯奇勒(Pascale Birchler)、泛生成器小组(panGenerator)、郭城(Guo Cheng)、林科(Lin Ke)、柳迪(Liu Di)、刘佳玉(Jiayu Liu)、陆明龙(Lawrence Lek)、拉斐尔·洛扎诺-亨默(Rafael Lozano-Hemmer)、佩恩恩(Payne Zhu)、强家栋(Pete Jiadong Qiang)、上下工作室(Studio Above&Below)、邵纯(Shao Chun)、申承帛 金容勋(Shinseungback Kimyonghun)、施政(Shi Zheng)、宋礼焕(Yehwan Song)、孙一钿(Sun Yitian)、唐潮(Tang Chao)、科娜莉·沃基拉(Coralie Vogelaar)、武子杨(Wu Ziyang)、辛云鹏(Xin Yunpeng)、叶轩(Ye Xuan)、殷漪(Yin Yi)、安·维罗妮卡·詹森斯(Ann Veronica Janssens)、张文心(Wenxin Zhang)、张英海重工业(Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries)、郑曦然(lan Cheng)

UCCA Edge

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AIKE荣幸宣布艺术家施政作品《天体寓言》和《熔于时间》参加UCCA Edge秋季大展“集光片羽”。2022年9月30日至2023年1月8日，UCCA Edge与抖音艺术联合举办展览“集光片羽”。展览由UCCA Lab策展人韩馨逸、唐誉祯及特邀策展人龙星如共同策划。展览汇集27位（组）艺术家使用和（或）围绕技术展开的创作，“集光片羽”喻指采撷遍落于数字世界之中“吉光片羽”般的珍贵之物，尝试为理解我们的数字化现实提供一种可能的切入方法。面对流动不居的信息地貌，展览中的艺术家跃身其中，如同旅行探险者，拨开业已钝化的感知界面，在遍布数字物的世界中主动行走，而非无意识地随之漂流。

在开篇第一单元“自在之流”中展出了艺术家施政作品《天体寓言》与新作《熔于时间》。《天体寓言》是一组由电脑生成的无止境诗歌序列，不断描述着一个个未知的星体。通过编程，施政为诗歌设置了基本的框架：每一段落均由句式类似的四行组成，而每行中的具体词组——如天体的介质、坐标、所处时空、运动与情感因子——则不断变换，由程序随机从艺术家预先准备的语料库中抽取、组合。艺术家以这件作品向美国激浪派艺术家艾莉森·诺尔斯在1967年创作的《灰尘之屋》致敬。作为最早被记录在案的计算机生成诗歌之一，《灰尘之屋》展现出了偶然性中的诗意，并推动了程序语言作为艺术创作媒介的无限可能。而施政则更进一步，将关注投向计算机程序本身，视遥不可及的“天体”为理解同样看似神秘的机器“程式”的象征，以此试图喻示、阐述程序的物质本体与情感能量。当机器程序驱动着这些自然现象的诗意叙事的生成，关于天体的寓言亦是程序的寓言，指向其物理实存。

另一件作品《熔于时间》是艺术家施政2022年的全新创作。在屏幕中，一座冰山缓缓崩塌，最终落入海洋。受到一段记录格陵兰峡湾巨大冰山坍塌视频的启发，施政采用计算机生成图像技术，在这件影像作品中重现了冰山轰然消融的全过程。在艺术家看来，冰架坍塌的自然现象并非“自然”发生，而可以看作是气候变暖的趋势下人类时间、地质时间与技术时间的对抗。通过数字手段的操纵，自然可以被高度逼真地模拟、重演，这也隐喻着人类行为对自身生存环境的影响与改变，施政旨在对人类与其所处环境的关系提出质疑：自然原本安如磐石的结构是如何一步步走向变动愈加频繁和剧烈，逐渐失控的局面？

（文字摘自UCCA Edge展览资料）

施政，《天体寓言》，2017，程序诗

Shi Zheng, Celestial Fable, 2017, Computer-generated poem

施政，《熔于时间》，2022，单频数字影像，08'00''Shi Zheng, Melting in Time, 2022, Single-channel digital video, 08'00''

AIKE is pleased to announce the participation of Shi Zheng's work Celestial Fable and Melting in Time at UCCA Edge autumn exhibition "The Pieces I Am".  From 30 September 2022 to 08 January 2023, UCCA Edge and Douyin jointly hold the exhibition "The Pieces I Am".  The exhibition is curated by UCCA Lab Curators Liya Han and Yoojin Tang together with special guest orator Iris Long.  The exhibition brings together 27 artists and groups who use and/or explore technology in their works. "The Pieces I Am" offers a possible starting point for understanding our digitized reality. Facing a shifting information landscape, these artists leap into this terrain as explorers. They set aside received perceptual interfaces, charting a course through a world of digital objects instead of simply drifting on its currents. 

In the first section of the exhibition, "Liquid Life", Shi Zheng exhibited his work Celestial Fable and latest work Melting in Time.  Celestial Fable is a suite of perpetually computer-generated poems that describe unknown stars. Shi Zheng programs the parameters for each poem's basic framework: stanzas comprise four lines with similar sentence structures, while the specific terms and phrases used—such as the materials, coordinates, space-time locations, movements, and emotional factors—are variables. The program randomly extracts and combines them from a textual database prepared by the artist. The piece is a tribute to American Fluxus artist Alison Knowles and her 1967 work The House of Dust. As one of the earliest recorded computer-generated poems, The House of Dust demonstrates the poetics of chance and the infinite potential of programming languages as mediums for artistic creation. Shi, however, has gone further, focusing on the programming of the computer. The artist sees these distant celestial bodies as symbols of the arcane mysteries of machine programming itself, and attempts to express the material essence and emotional energy of such programs. When a program drives the poetic narrative of natural phenomena, a fable about the stars becomes a fable about programming itself, implicating its physical existence.

Another work Melting in Time is a new creation by artist Shi Zheng in 2022. On the screen, an iceberg slowly breaks apart, disappearing in the sea. Inspired by a video of the collapse of a massive iceberg in a Greenland fjord, Shi Zheng uses computer-generated image technology to reimagine the entire process in this video work. In the artist's view, the collapse of an ice shelf is not a natural event, but a confrontation between human time, geological time, and technological time against the backdrop of climate change. Through digital manipulation, nature can be simulated and reproduced hyperrealistically, which also is in itself a metaphor for how human behavior has impacted and transformed the environments in which we live. The artist questions the relationship between humans and their surroundings: how did the primordial, stable structures of nature move incrementally towards more frequent and violent changes? How did nature gradually become unmoored?

(Text is excerpted from UCCA Edge exhibition materials)

“集光片羽”展览现场，UCCA Edge，2022"The Pieces I Am" Installation View, UCCA Edge, 2022

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ABOUT THE ARTIST

施政，1990年出生于江苏，2014年毕业于中国美术学院跨媒体艺术学院，2019年获得芝加哥艺术学院硕士学位。现生活工作于上海和纽约。作为媒体艺术家，施政的创作形式涉及视听装置、电子音乐以及现场演出，开展一系列以模拟和“机器视觉”为出发点的艺术实践，通过扩充观众视听通感体验，体现其对技术哲学、数字漫游和“潜在时间”的持续思考。

施政在集中创作个人作品的同时，也和其领域内的优秀艺术家进行合作。2013年他与能火、王志鹏、翁巍共同成立媒体艺术小组RMBit(人⺠比特)，结合当下的社交媒体现象进行创作。他和能火也是视听演出团体OSC (Open Super Control)的成员。

其个人与合作作品也曾多次出现在国内外重要的美术馆、艺术机构、媒体艺术节中，包括油罐艺术中心、银川当代美术馆、Sound Art China (中国声音艺术大展)、FILE ElectronicLanguage International Festival、Ars Electronica (奥地利电子艺术节)、伦敦当代艺术中心、都灵Castello di Rivara美术馆、伦敦The Lumen Prize、上海二十一世纪⺠生美术馆、OCT当代艺术中心深圳馆。

Shi Zheng was born in 1990 in Jiangsu, China and now lives and works in Shanghai and New York. He graduated from China Academy of Art in 2014 and acquired MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2019. As a media artist, Shi's artistic creations range from audio-visual installations, digital music and live performance, demonstrating the artist's ongoing interest in simulation and "machine vision". Shi further embodies his reflection on the philosophy of technology, digital voyage and "latent time" by extending the audience's visual and audio experience.

Apart from individual creation, Shi Zheng also collaborates with other outstanding artists in various fields. In 2013, artistic ground RMBit was founded by Shi Zheng in conjunction with Nenghuo, Wang Zhipeng and Weng Wei with the focus on current context of social media. Both Shi and Nenghuo are the members of an Audio-Visual performance group OSC (Open Super Control).

Shi Zheng’s individual and cooperated works have been presented in a wide range of museums, art institutions and media art festivals home and abroad, including TANK Shanghai, MOCA Yinchuan, Sound Art China, FILE Electronic Language International Festival, Ars Electronica, Institute of Contemporary Arts London, Castello di Rivara, The Lumen Prize, Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum and OCT Contemporary Art Terminal Shenzhen.

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