聚焦 | 光影秘境 无限可能

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上海纽约大学互动媒体艺术（IMA）专业四名学生的作品，于2月3日亮相上海闵行万象城艺术空间的“光影秘境·旭”公益展，作为“光影秘境”展整体的一个独特单元。从3D音乐喷泉到色彩变幻的互动星座体系，四个结合艺术与科技的作品，用新的维度和语言引发思考。

此次“光影秘境·旭”公益展，由上海纽约大学互动媒体艺术专业、上海广电影视制作有限公司及万象城联合举办，致力于将新锐新媒体艺术家推向台前，为公众所认识。互动媒体艺术专业的四名学生还参与策展，并担任展览设计委员会成员。

作为上海最有影响力之一的新媒体艺术展“光影秘境”，试图在无限的可能性语境中，探索作品本身与观众接触的无尽机会。展出作品包括上纽大互动媒体艺术研究员刘唱的描绘人类、信息、编码与机器周期的视听艺术装置作品。

“互动媒体艺术专业的学生乐于接受挑战，他们积极创作，并对如何用科技给人类生活带来意义与快乐进行批判性思考，”上纽大艺术助理教授Antonius Wiriadjaja在展览开幕式上致辞表示，“作为一名艺术教授，很开心能看到学生用作品呈现自己对世界的思考与理解。”

此次展览将持续至3月22日。

褪换  2018届学生王子赫  

该作品是作者对视觉生成艺术和计算机音乐的一次探索，以音乐为对象实时生成的花纹和图案，暗喻着已知世界的另一种可能性。

“我很小的时候就喜欢上了音乐，但没有深入研究过。我想将我的计算机编程知识应用于音乐。”

地形  2020届学生贺方晴

这一作品包含四个场景：山水、月色、落日、水晶球，试图将白日梦幻的种种可能，引入日常生活背景。

“小时候，我有一个圣诞树水晶球，我的作品关注的是介于非现实和现实之间的错觉，是对童年碎片记忆的复原和二次演绎，意图营造似是而非的非现实感，”贺方晴说。

星系坐标  2018届学生赵楠  

这是一件代码生成艺术作品，赵楠通过从八卦图中读取信息，结合创意编程，生成可互动的、带有生命感的星座体系。

赵楠说，“我一直都对行星的运动和吸引力定律很感兴趣。不过，我觉得十二星座还不够，而且也缺乏个性。我的作品探索的是无限的星系，让每个个体都能自我定义。”

波塞冬之声  2020届学生张楚宜  

这部作品将声音的性质与水的运动相结合，用一系列3D音乐喷泉突破感官的界限，通过模拟水滴的色调和运动的变换，将声音和音乐视觉化。作品共设置有六组喷泉，不同的组合带来不同视觉效果。

张楚宜说，“我受到迪拜音乐喷泉的启发，它的视觉做的非常漂亮，不过我音乐性和互动性少了一点。所以我设计编程了一个数字喷泉，它可以和任何的声音输入交互。”

Infinite Dimensions

Four selected Interactive Media Arts (IMA) student projects—from an interactive digital fountain to a color-changing constellation—were displayed at the Shanghai MixC Mall in Minhang district as special part of the “INFINITE: Dimensions in Digital Age and Beyond” exhibition on Saturday. This was the first public unveiling of their projects.

Titled INFINITE·New Born, the exhibition is a collaboration between NYU Shanghai IMA, Shanghai Film, Radio&TV Production and MixC Mall, aiming to facilitate wider public access to works by emerging new media artists. The four IMA students also served as curation and design committee members of the exhibition.

As one of the most influential new media arts exhibitions in Shanghai, “INFINITE: Dimensions in Digital Age and Beyond” hosts a variety of digital and immersive artworks that explore the idea of expansiveness and infinite possibilities, including a visual-sound installation by IMA Resident Research Fellow Cici Liu that depicts the cycle of humans, information, coding, and machine.

“IMA students are challenged to create, as well as to think critically about technology in order to bring meaning and delight to people’s lives,” said Assistant Arts Professor Antonius Wiriadjaja at the opening ceremony. “As an arts professor, there is no greater honor than seeing students put forth their vision into the world.”

The exhibition will conclude on March 22. Here is a glimpse into our students’ featured works and what inspired them:

“Fading Illusion” by Wang Zihe ‘18

Wang Zihe’s artwork is an exploration of generative art and computer music. The visual pattern is based on the analysis of real-time music and aims to show a familiar environment having many possibilities through visual snapshots that are fleeting and one-time.

“I developed an interest in music at a very young age but never really pursued it. Now, I want to take advantage of my knowledge in computer programming and apply it to music,” Wang said.

“Terrain” by He Fangqing ‘20

He Fangqing’s Terrain aims to explore the possibilities of romantic daydreams brought into the context of daily life, with four scenes: mountains, moon, sunset, and a crystal ball.

“When I was younger, I had a snow globe with a Christmas tree inside, which inspired my current artwork to be both realistic and fictional: realistic in that each scene I recreated was from my childhood memories and yet fictionalized with creativity and imagination,” said He.

“Constellation” by Zhao Nan ‘18

Zhao Nan managed to create an interactive and vivid constellation through the reading of a Bagua graph (the fundamental principles of reality represented through eight Taoist symbols), combined with creative coding.

“I have always been fascinated by the movements of the stars and the Law of Attraction. I thought the 12 zodiacs were not enough and lacked individuality. That’s why my artwork  has an infinite number of constellations, allowing each individual to define themselves.  

“The Sound of Poseidon” by Zhang Chuyi ‘20

The Sound of Poseidon brings sound and water movement together. It is a set of 3D musical fountains that visualize sound and music by changing the color, movement, and oscillation of several particle systems (as water drops). There are six different types of fountains in total, of which different combinations have various visual effects.

“I was inspired by the Dubai Fountain which was visually stunning. However, I also felt it lacked music and interaction, so I programmed a digital fountain that ‘mingled’ with any sound input,” Zhang said.