【HSAM | Exhibition Preview】Avatar : My Metaverse
From September 29th, 2021, to November 21st, 2021, Hanshan Art Museum will present the "Avatar: My Metaverse” art exhibition to the public. The exhibition is presented by Hanshan Art Museum and curated by curator Gu Zhenqing and co-curator Zhang Haitao.This is also one of the important practices of Hanshan Art Museum who has been committed to discovering, summarizing, and presenting the fusion relationship between art and technology in the contemporary contexts. This exhibition focuses on the current art production methods based on blockchain technology and NFT form.
With the theme of Avatar: My Metaverse nearly 40 artworks created by 33 artists (groups) have been invited to participate in the exhibition, which is divided into four sections,
Community Metaverse, Biosphere Metaverse, Parallel Metaverse and Disembedding Metaverse. Using the Internet, VR, AR, MR, AI, NFT, game engine and other technical media, it will present the future circumstance and ecology of "Internet Avatar" in an online virtual universe parallel to the real world, bringing brand new visual and sensory experiences to the public.
PARTICIPANTS:
Arc4g、Arrogant Kei、A.Yang、Niq Chen Keqian、Dabeiyuzhou、Debbie H Digital、Ellwood Studio、Enlighten Studio、Fakito、Gao Feng、Cthuwork & NA、Huang Heshan、IOYOI Hung Shih Cheng、Kefan404、Kidmograph （Gustavo Torres）、Liu Jinpeng（Kalman Pool）、Lin Wanshan、LuluxXX、Echo Can Luo、Fabin Rasheed、RiniiFish、Milton Sanz、Skygolpe、Sleepy、Sparrow Read、Su Yongjian、Sun Yuqian、Rutger Van Der Tas、u2p050、UBERMORGEN、Wenze 17、XI、Zhang Mo
Avatar Universe
By Curator Gu Zhenqing
Pythagoras said, "Everything is numbered." Gödel believed that the function of the human brain is nothing more than a computer, but he himself does not object to using Gödel’s incompleteness theorem as part of the proof that "the human heart is better than a computer." In his opinion, the incompleteness theorem doesnot provide the limits of human intelligence and rational, but only reveals the inherent limitations of the mathematical formal system. The Cognitive Computationalism believes that cognition is calculation. The function of the brain is to process information and to characterize the processed information. With the development of artificial intelligence, cognitive computability has built up more connection between human cognition and algorithm. The basic principles provided by algorithms for cognitive modeling has provided the possibility for the calculation and quantification with cognitive attributes. Nowadays, in the world of network chains, every idea human has, every social interaction, and every economic activity, they are all occurring in the virtual space with binary digitals. People use the Internet, VR, AR, MR, AI, NFT, game engine and other technical media to create, drive and display their own network chain "avatar" in the digital virtual world. This virtual interactive ecology, that runs on the entire network chain, that all digitization is byNFT, and where more and more online chain users are participating, is a type of Metaverse born out of the embryonic form of online games. Metaverse has bondand integrated various platforms of digital technology, Internet technology and blockchain technology, and then presented a virtual space-time parallel to thereal world. All people in the real world can have a network "Avatar"in the Metaverse. This identity is a virtual ID that truly belongs to eachuser, and so is it a necessary identity for each user to participate in online virtual social networking, games, economic activities, and asset allocation.
Fiery and Continuous Illusion
Kefan404，2021，Motion Short Film，2160x3840 px
Courtesy: The Artist
The current mobile Internet has achieved a high degree of coverage for netizens, and the rapid development of e-commerce, mobile games, chain games, short videos and other business formats have made the innovation in consumption scenarios of Internet content. Blockchain Internet revolution, network computing power revolution, VR display with holomorphic immersive experience, all above have made online doppelganger gameslike Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPG) continuousl yupgraded and iterated, and then developed into an ultimate form of the Internetcalled "Immersive Metaverse". Metaverse not only integrates digital entertainment and social networks deeply, but also builds the social economic and commercial activities in the world of the network chain. Blockchain technology hasprovided Metaverse with a decentralized clearing and settlement platform, aswell as a distributed storage model. The emergence of smart protocols, DeFi,and NFT has ensured the security of users' virtual identities and virtual assets, as well as the transparent implementation of the Assets Entitlements transfer system and transfer rules in Metaverse. Any element that appears in the Metaverse today must be processed by NFT encrypted digital methods. NFTmakes all digital objects in the Metaverse unique, with their own timestamp, location and rights attributes. NFT is the basic proof that every digital existenceis identifiable, traceable, and verifiable. NFT endows digital human anddigital objects a unique label in the Metaverse, just like the latitude andlongitude needed to determine the location of each object on the earth. Metaverse has made it possible with a fair, just, and complete closed-loopeconomic system and social system. In the future, everyone and everyorganization may construct an Avatar in the Metaverse, and participate in apermanent, stable, real-time, immersive, and diverse online virtual life circlein the form of a digital Avatar, and in this virtual space implements behaviors that are similar with those in the real world. The Metaverse is also aphenomenon that conforms to Maslow's theory of economic needs, that involves people born in the 90s and 00s around the world. They come with the Internet foundation and online social habits, belonging to the new generation of digital natives. Their way of thinking, lifestyle, social rationality, and experiences of online interactive games have provided a huge market space for the Metaverse, and have spawned waves of knowledge one after another, for the conversion from traditional cultural to Memes, IP originality and virtual asset all ocation in the virtual world of the network chain.
Untitled 210726
Peak, 2021, NFT Digital Art, 1284×2463 px
Courtesy: The Artist
LuckyCot100
Niq Chen Keqian, 2021, Digital Format, 1080×1080 px
Courtesy: The Artist
The Metaverse is an inevitable product of the development of digital technology and Internet technology to the stage of blockchain virtual finance, virtual economy, and virtual society. It has represented the big trend of constant migration of human civilization from the material demand level to the spiritual pursuit level, and from the physical reality level to the virtual entity level. The Metaverse has showed to human the possibility of constructing a holographic digital world parallel to the traditional physical world; the Metaverse concept has even triggered the interaction of information science, quantum science, mathematics, and bioscience, changed the scientific paradigm, and pushed forward the breakthrough of the traditional humanities system. With the promotion of newtechnologies, new chip hardware and software in various scenarios, the content scenarios of Internet of Everything and Encryption of Everything are also evolving in the Metaverse. Therefore, whether it is the consumer Internet, the media Internet, or the industrial Internet, in the future, it will embrace the multi-chain Metaverse era that integrates online and offline with the mobile and portable. The " Metaverse " has provided a new path for human society to realize the final digital transformation, and also built the intersection in all domains with the "post-human" society and the "post-biosphere" world, prompting a brand-new era with the same historical significance as the Great Age of Voyage and Aerospace.
Virtual Butterfly
Dabeiyuzhou，2020，Art of artificial Intelligence
Courtesy: The Artist
The development of information technology such as blockchain, NFT, and Metaverse has been accelerating the advancement of thedis-embedding nature of the Internet's upgrade and virtual world construction,continuously subverting the existing cognition and experience of mankind and pointing to a digital immortal future. In the Metaverse, artists are not only the face-creators for ID image of the super digital human, but also the producers of digital objects, the builders of digital buildings, the architects of digital tribes, and the porters to move the human civilization from offline physical reality to online digital virtual world. They carry the responsibility of producing knowledge, emancipating the mind, and creating super digital newcomers. The artist is not only the inheritor, propagator, and refresher for cultural genes of human root, but also the composer, creator, and planner of the future civilization of the Metaverse, as well as the promoter of post-humanist social experiments, and the self-questioner of the meaning of human existence.
Singular NFT/Gif
IOYOI Hung Shih Cheng，2020，2000×2000px
Courtesy: The Artist
Art/Science and technology/Metaverse
By Director of Hanshan Art Museum Buda
In the history of mankind, the developments in scienceand technology have played a big role in changing social patterns, as well as shaping new social norms and value systems. With every Productivity Evolution, artists can always adapt to the social upheavals brought by technological innovation at an earlier stage than the rest. They are not like the Capital with a keen sense of smell, and they are also different from the indifferent masses. Art is their way of building a dialogue with the world, so is it the outcome of their struggles with their hearts. Regardless of the changes in the times, art should always care, explore, and think about human survival and their spiritual states, and should always devote its sincerity and enthusiasm to liberate people’s spiritual plights. It is the artist’s obligation to express the wish to maintain basic human values through his/her works.
Double Fat
A.Yang, 2021, Multimedia
Courtesy: The Artist
Fictional Plane--Tuli City
Huang Heshan, 2021, Medium Composite Cardboard, Variable Size
Courtesy: The Artist
The large-scale popularization of the Internet has made digital art and video installation art becoming the mainstream of Contemporary Art,and the art production method based on blockchain technology and NFT form will further expand the boundaries of digital art which is using computers and the Internet as its carrier. As a concept that has been reactivated, Metaverse may become the regular form of next generation on the Internet. With digital avatars, people can nomad, settle, and migrate in the digital virtual world, and the establishment of an economic system allows them to connect with the real world. It has greatly increased the proportion of digital art in the original art production system and provided broader opportunities for the artists of younger generation.
Brian Bug
Riniifish，2021，Digital art，AR
Courtesy: The Artist
Evolution Machine
Su Yongjian, 2020, Aluminum/Electric Putter/Inflatable Ball/Electronic Components/Genetic Algorithm Program, 200×200×250 cm
Courtesy: The Artist
It is true that the Metaverse is still in a prototype form at this stage, with various necessary conditions to be improved urgently. What is the art form of the Metaverse era is still unknown, for everything is happening and processing right now. This digital art exploration exhibition based on the Metaverse ecology, which is initiated and presented by Hanshan Art Museum, is aiming to open a window for artists and the public to understand this specific knowledge production method that is being generated and may change our existing life patterns. In such a parallel world of initial virtual reality, humans of new generation are observing, recording, and constructing its growth, searching for their new homeland on the journey of electronic nomadism.
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Liu Jinpeng (Kalman Pool)，2021，Single-Screen VR Sculpture Image (04:00)
Courtesy: The Artist
The Next Biennial Should Be Curated by a Machine
UBERMORGEN，AI, Database, Browser, Digital Art，Eternally online
Courtesy: The Artist
Emotional Everything
Sleepy,2021, Digital Image, 3000×3000 px
Courtesy: The Artist
Beauty - Alpha
Echo Can Luo, 2021, Video Installation, Computer, Audio, Projector, 5 minutes
Courtesy: The Artist
Welcome to visit the museum for more exhibits.
During this exhibition, IcarusArt. AI will be the chain partner of the Avatar: My Metaverse exhibition, and its 3D chain art venue, Ting Museum, will map the physicalworld in its cyberspace that will be fulfilled with future experiences. At the same time, there will be two themed academic dialogues during the exhibition:" National Tide of Metaverse and Community of Mankind" (13:00-15:00, Sept. 29th); “Metaverse Landscape: Digital Immigration and Digital Immortality"(14:00-16:00, Oct. 20th), to share the academic contents of the exhibition to the public in an optimized way.
ORGANIZER: Hanshan Art Museum
CURATOR: Gu Zhenqing
CO-CURATOR: Zhang Haitao
EXHIBITION DESIGNER: Su Dingxiang
DATES: 2021.09.29-2021.11.21
VENUE: No.999 Taihu Avenue, SND, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
SUPPORT: CryptoC、MoCA、HUAWEI MatePad、Dandelion Chain Lenovo、ICARUSART.AI