aaajiao新作亮相第四届今日未来馆“致不灭的你”
致不灭的你
To Your Eternity
2023.07.23 - 10.15
总策划 Director
张然 (Jessica Zhang)
策展人 Curator
王辛 (Xin Wang)
今日美术馆1号馆2、3、4层
Floor 2, 3, 4, No.1 Building, Today Art Museum
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aaajiao全新创作《Seed: 714774160》、《Seed: 1897550703》亮相第四届今日未来馆“致不灭的你”。展览汇集了30位/组当代艺术家的54组跨媒介作品，展现了今日美术馆对于全球语境下“艺术”“科技”“设计”三个方向的深度探索。
展览的标题和启发来自2021年的动漫系列《致不灭的你》。故事讲述了一个无定形的外星生命，通过不断寄居、迁移，体验了由无机体、植物、动物、到最后化为人形的旅途。每次跨物种变形皆由上一个宿主的死亡引发，由此扩展了我们对与“模拟”和“智能”的哲思，将情感和具体化的经验纳入其中，亦在更大的时间尺度上定位了认知。该展览同样希望能为观者营造某种沉浸式的体验，通过一系列令人振奋的艺术创作和哲学思辨，超越逐渐千篇一律的“声光电”媒介奇观，去探寻科技对想象力、历史、心灵、与生活的意义。
《Seed:1897550703》，2023，在亚麻布上进行数码打印、手工丝网印刷和手绘，60 × 60 cm
Seed:1897550703, 2023, Digital printing, manual silk screening, hand drawing on linen, 60 × 60 cm
"致不灭的你"，展览现场，今日美术馆，2023
"To Your Eternity", Installation View, Today Art Museum, 2023
此次展出的作品《Seed: 714774160》、《Seed: 1897550703》是aaajiao的全新创作。aaajiao在这一系列创作中探讨“人们如何从随机事件中再次找到价值”，这可能也是人们仅存的能力。当人工智能绘制内容几乎已经可以代替所有商业需求，艺术家或许还有机会喘口气。人工智能艺术中的种子是一系列告诉人工智能如何生成图像的数字。它就像一件艺术品的蓝图，指导人工智能创造新的、独特的东西。通过生成随机种子然后基于它衍生图像，人工智能可以创建无数种图像。而每次输入相同的提示、种子和设置，都将会得到完全相同的图像。
《Seed:714774160》，2023，在亚麻布上进行数码打印、手工丝网印刷和手绘，180 × 180 cm
Seed:714774160, 2023, Digital printing, manual silk screening, hand drawing on linen, 180 × 180 cm
"致不灭的你"，展览现场，今日美术馆，2023
"To Your Eternity", Installation View, Today Art Museum, 2023
作为一个致力于探讨艺术与科技之间细腻关联的双年展，“致不灭的你”囊括了丰富的媒介形式。通过将二十世纪中期重要的艺术史案例穿插在新近的创作中，展览邀请观众对当前科技引发的艺术思潮和存在主义危机进行更深入的思考，因为这些历史前提从未真正从我们所经历的当下中消失。展览已于2023年7月23日开幕，将持续至10月15日。
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aaajiao's new works Seed: 714774160 and Seed: 1897550703 exhibited at the 4th Future of Today Biennale "To Your Eternity". The exhibition brings together 54 sets of cross-media works by 30 contemporary artists, presenting the exploration of Today Art Museum in the three directions of "art", "technology" and "design" in the global context.
The exhibition takes its title and spirit from the 2021 anime series “To Your Eternity”. The story follows an amorphous alien entity as it approximates various forms of inorganic, plant, animal, and ultimately human lives through inhabiting their life cycles. This trans-species metamorphosis is spurred by the death of the previous host, expanding the definition of “intelligence” to also encompass feelings, embodied experiences, and situated knowledge against a grander scale of time. The exhibition similarly hopes to immerse visitors in an exhilarating range of artistic and philosophical perspectives on what technology means for our imagination, heart, and livelihood beyond media novelty, spectacle, or gadgetry.
"致不灭的你"，展览现场，今日美术馆，2023
"To Your Eternity", Installation View, Today Art Museum, 2023
The exhibited works Seed: 714774160 and Seed: 1897550703 are aaajiao's new creations. In this series of creations, aaajiao explores "how people find value from random events", which may be the only remaining ability of people. When AI drawing can almost replace all commercial needs, artists may still have a chance. The seeds in AI art are a series of numbers that tell the AI how to generate the image. It is like a blueprint for a work of art, guiding the AI to create something new and unique. By generating a random seed and deriving images based on it, AI can create a variety of images. And when you enter the same prompt, seed and settings, you will get the a same image.
"致不灭的你"，展览现场，今日美术馆，2023
"To Your Eternity", Installation View, Today Art Museum, 2023
As an art and technology biennial, “To Your Eternity” features an unusual range of media. By inserting crucial art historical examples from the mid-20th century into the mix of more recent work, the exhibition invites ponderings on longer throughlines in historical conditionings of our current technological and existential crisis that never truly went away. The exhibition opened on 23 July 2023 and will last until 15 October.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
1984年出生于西安。现生活工作于上海和柏林。
aaajiao，是年轻艺术家徐文恺的化名，也是他虚构的网络分身。1984年（他的出生年份恰好是乔治·奥威尔经典预言式小说的名称），出生于中国最古老城市之一的西安，aaajiao的创作结合了浓重的反乌托邦意识、对文人精神的反思。他的很多作品都致力于探索新的科技和媒体影响之下的文化现象和政治策略，从社交媒体写作、数据处理，到网络和移动媒介下的新美学景观。作为今天全球新一代媒体艺术的代表人物，aaajiao将今天中国特殊的社交媒体文化、科技运用带入了国际艺术的话语和讨论。
aaajiao的作品频繁展出于全球的美术馆和艺术机构，例如：“时间引力—— 2023成都双年展”，成都市美术馆，成都，中国，2023；“真实的拓扑：媒体艺术（深圳2023）”，深圳市当代艺术与城市规划馆，深圳，中国，2023；“流光”，四方当代美术馆，南京，中国，2023；“昊美术馆5周年馆藏展：你和我，保持凝视”，昊美术馆，上海，中国，2023；“第七届广州三年展-化作通变”，广东美术馆，广州，中国，2023；“道法柏林，而游于外”，KINDL，柏林，德国，2022；“Cloud Walkers”，Leeum Museum of Art，首尔，韩国，2022；“档案冲动：反叙事和反记忆的操练”，AIKE，上海，中国，2022；“深渊模拟器”，里沃利城堡当代艺术博物馆，都灵，意大利，2020；“1989年到今天：网络时代的艺术”，波士顿当代艺术中心，波士顿，美国，2018；“非真实”，电子艺术之家，巴塞尔，瑞士，2017；“身体·媒体II”，上海当代艺术博物馆，上海，中国，2017；“带走我（我是你的）”，犹太人美术馆，纽约，美国，2016；“时间转向：当代亚洲的艺术与思辨”，斯班塞美术馆，堪萨斯，美国，2016；“波普之上”，余德耀美术馆，上海，中国，2016；“黑客空间”（由Hans Ulrich Obrist与Amira Gad策展），K11艺术基金会临时空间，香港，中国、chi K11美术馆，上海，中国，2016；“全方位：全控制和言论控制”，ZKM卡尔斯鲁厄艺术与媒体中心，卡尔斯鲁厄，德国，2015；“齐物等观——2014国际新媒体艺术三年展”，中国国家美术馆，北京，中国，2014。
他近期个展包括“深渊模拟器”，Tabula Rasa画廊，伦敦，英国，2021；“深渊模拟器”，里沃利城堡当代艺术博物馆，都灵，意大利，2020；“洞穴模拟器”，AIKE，上海，中国，2020；“a’a’a’jiao: 一个ID”，昊美术馆，上海，中国，2019；“观察者”，House of Egorn，柏林，德国，2018；“暴食”，千高原艺术空间，成都，中国，2018；“用户、爱、高频交易”，Leo Xu Projects，上海，中国，2017；“电子遗留物”，华人艺术中心，曼彻斯特，英国，2016；“电子遗留物”，OCAT，西安，中国，2016。aaajiao于2014年获得了第三届三亚艺术季暨华宇青年评审大奖，亦入围首届OCAT皮埃尔·于贝尔奖。
Born in 1984 in Xi’an. Currently lives and works in Shanghai and Berlin.
Active online as a media artist, blogger, activist and programmer, aaajiao is the virtual persona of Shanghai- and Berlin- artist Xu Wenkai. Born in 1984—the title of George Orwell’s classic allegorical novel—and in one of China’s oldest cities, Xi’an, aaajiao’s art and works are marked by a strong dystopian awareness, literati spirits and sophistication. Many of aaajiao’s works speak to new thinkings, controversies and phenomenon around the Internet, with specific projects focusing on the processing of data, the blogsphere and China’s Great Fire Wall. aaajiao’s recent projects extend his practice to various disciplines (among them, architecture, topography, and design) to capture the pulse of the young generation consuming cyber technology and living in social media.
aaajiao’s work has been featured in numerous exhibitions around the world, upcoming and recent shows include “Topologies of The Real Techne (Shenzhen 2023)”, Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning, Shenzhen, China, 2023; “Time Gravity - 2023 Chengdu Biennale”, Chengdu Art Museum, Chengdu, China, 2023; “HOW Art Museum 5th Anniversary Collection Exhibition: “Projection”, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China, 2023; “You as Me, Hold the Gaze”, HOW Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2023; “The 7th Guangzhou Triennial - symphony of all the changes”, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China, 2023; “Cloud Walkers”, Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea, 2022; “Forming Communities: Berliner”, KINDL, Berlin, Germany, 2022; “The Archival Impulse: An Exercise in Counter-Narrative and Counter-Memory”, AIKE, Shanghai, China, 2022; “Deep Simulator”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy, 2021; “Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today”, The Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston, USA, 2018; “unREAL”, Haus der elektronischen Künste, Basel, Switzerland, 2017; “Shanghai Project Part II”, Shanghai, China, 2017; “Temporal Turn: Art and Speculation in Contemporary Asia”, Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas, USA, 2016; “Take Me (I’m Yours)” (curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jens Hoffmann and Kelly Taxter), Jewish Museum, New York, USA, 2016; “Overpop”, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China, 2016; “Hack Space” (curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Amira Gad), K11 Art Foundation Pop-up Space, Hong Kong and chi K11 art museum, Shanghai, China, 2016; “Globale: Global Control and Censorship”, ZKM | Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2015; and “Thingworld International Triennial of New Media Art”, The National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China, 2014.
His recent solo exhibition includes “Deep Simulator”, Tabula Rasa Gallery, London, UK, 2021; “Deep Simulator”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy, 2020; “Cave Simulator”, AIKE, Shanghai, China, 2020; “a’a’a’jiao: an ID”, HOW Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2019; “bot,” House of Egorn, Berlin, German, 2018; “Gluttony”, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu, China, 2018; “User, Love, High-frequency Trading”, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China, 2017; “Remnants of an Electronic Past”, CFCCA, Manchester, UK, 2016; “Remnants of an Electronic Past”, OCAT, Xi’an, China, 2016. aaajiao was awarded the Art Sanya Awards in 2014 Jury Prize and was nominated for the first edition of OCAT-Pierre Huber Art Prize in 2014.
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