A7-Shared Campus Exhibition "World Peace"
メタバース展覧会 / Metaverse Art Exhibition
参加作品紹介 / Exhibit Showcase
目次 / Table of Contents
- Oleksandra Tsapko"God&Garden" - Series of photography made in Ukraine
- Du YanElectric Relaxation
- Peiran WANGWandering in Light 逍遥游
- Kenny Hsiao, Pang Huang, Sihching Changoh shoot ! （ヤバイ！）
- Tammy WangSense of Light Series I: Cyanotype
- Fangas NayawLa XXX Punk
- Phoenix FryFall
- Jonathan LiuEvery Horizon
- Sarah NoorhimliBaju Butterfly Beach Babez (in motion)
- MAO YuxuanThe Barren Era
- LEE Kai Zheng, NickThe Core
- ¡wénrán zhào!Dad, Will You Teach Me Calligraphy?
- Hung Ngai Fung, VermonThe Shape of War Sound
- Lee Ching Ching EuniceVictory Bell
- Maryam Hassanein, Jirui Han, Branca PeixotoPenrose
- Paula DischingerFormations
- Maria ProshkowskaNo name ritual
"God&Garden" - Series of photography made in Ukraine
Zurich University of the Arts (Switzerland / Zurich)
Artist : Oleksandra Tsapko
Format : Still image data
Description :Oleksandra Tsapko is an artist who relocated to Switzerland to escape the war in Ukraine. She enrolled as a Fine Arts student at Zurich's University of the Arts, where she diversified her artistic skills, delving into painting, music production, filmmaking, directing, editing, curating, and more. During a subsequent visit to Ukraine, following the onset of the war in August, Oleksandra, originally from Kyiv but with a love for the Carpathian Mountains, ventured to western Ukraine. There, she reconnected with friends, documented activities in a children's camp, and pursued her interest in photography. This artistic body of work reflects her growth and resilience in the face of adversity.
Electric Relaxation
Zurich University of the Arts (Switzerland / Zurich)
Artist : Du Yan
Format : Still image data
Description :Progress and innovation serve as powerful agents of positive change in our world. However, in our increasingly interconnected global society, progress has been elevated to an almost sacred status, leading to a concerning obsession with consumption that often feels distorted and unhealthy. The prevailing mentality seems to be: "Overindulged? Don't worry, there's a quick fix for every discomfort!" or "You'll be as happy as those flawless individuals if you just possess the same trendy items!" These messages bombard us with irresistible audio and visual stimuli cleverly designed to manipulate our emotions and behavior. Regrettably, there seems to be a lack of significant effort and investment aimed at championing the virtues of moderation and the profound beauty inherent in the natural process of decay. No institution is actively teaching how to embrace a more contemplative and melancholic attitude towards life, and appreciate the serenity found in simplicity and balance. By doing so, we could forge a path towards a more harmonious and fulfilling existence while also safeguarding the planet for future generations.
Wandering in Light 逍遥游
Zurich University of the Arts (Switzerland / Zurich)
Artist : Peiran WANG
Format : Still image data
Description :Imagination is not only the starting point for the thrilling outcomes but also the dynamic of the unknown adventures in everyday life. Rediscovering the imaginative and curious part of human beings, people may break the chains of self-handicapping and be free from the circulation of hurting each other. This work gathers how humans in different fields discover the universe combining rational and emotional methods as well as western and eastern perspectives. Created with ordinary materials and day-to-day life behaviors, the interactions with light are the symbol of imagination that enables us to wander beyond limits.
oh shoot ! （ヤバイ！）
Taipei National University of the Arts (Taiwan / Taipei)
Artist : Kenny Hsiao, Pang Huang, Sihching Chang
Format : Video data
Description :Three truant students, Jian-Hao, Li-Da, and Yuan-An, were idling and laughing in the field. What happens next will change their lives forever.
Sense of Light Series I: Cyanotype
Taipei National University of the Arts (Taiwan / Taipei)
Artist : Tammy Wang
Format : Still image data
Description :The cyanotype process, initially employed for botanical specimen documentation, is one of the earliest photographic techniques. It gradually evolved to reveal images captured on film. Being a student versed in both darkroom techniques and new media art, I had an idea to merge these seemingly disparate "old" and "new" media. This led to the creation of my artwork. I manipulated parameters through algorithms on the computer, generating random graphics, and infusing them with my aesthetic sensibilities. Subsequently, I transferred these computer-generated images onto celluloid film and coated them with photosensitive cyanotype pigment on watercolor paper. This process resulted in sheets of paper that exist in the realm between traditional photography and virtual imagery. Finally, I arranged these sheets into a 16:9 format, aligning with contemporary computer screen dimensions. Through this artwork, I aim to explore the essence of images and the significance of darkroom techniques in the digital age.
La XXX Punk
Taipei National University of the Arts (Taiwan / Taipei)
Artist : Fangas Nayaw
Format : Video data
Description :The four-channel video installation is a speculative exploration on a future when all traces of indigenous population have disappeared. In this parallel universe, all peoples may take up the role of the indigenous and fabricate a music and dance culture of their tribes. The women and men in the video whose appearance reveal nothing about their tribal identity do not wear those traditional costumes in their hands, but put them on display like props. In this ritual of the future Amis people, songs and languages have gone lost. All that is left is the mechanic beats that accompany the movement of these bodies. Fangas Nayaw works across different fields, including media, theatre, and dance, with an emphasis on the indigenous heritage in the contemporary world of globalisation. La XXX Punk adopts a counterfactual model to reconstruct four different aspects of the Amis culture respectively in each channel: song and dance rituals, everyday living, ancestral portraits, and kinship remembrances. Referencing the Amis age set organisation, a system to distribute labour and responsibility among men, this installation dissects the stereotypical imaginings of the Amis people and creates its tune of a futuristic indigenous punk.
Fall
LASALLE College of the Arts (Singapore / Singapore)
Artist : Phoenix Fry
Format : Video data
Description :Contemporary animist theories propose a radical unity between human and non-human life. In this artwork - compiled from interview fragments, music samples, movie clips and iPhone footage - a man is asked to recount a childhood trip to the zoo. The somewhat bittersweet narrative suggests that a person’s connection with the natural world involves a subjectivity that passes freely between multiple forms of nature, linking man, child, animal, mountain, storm - and the viewer themselves.
Every Horizon
LASALLE College of the Arts (Singapore / Singapore)
Artist : Jonathan Liu
Format : Video data
Description :In Every Horizon, Jonathan is experimenting with (re)presentations of his fragmented memories, working with an existing archive of horizons within the landscapes he has photographed. The process of machine learning and the results of the generative process mirrors the act of (re)collection, which occurs at times with clarity but also appears fleeting and marked by voids. The generative system manifests the ambiguities of his experience, hidden between the complex layers of his unconscious. What once was an inscription of memory is turned into a representation of the photograph that is then fragmented into visual data in a state of flux. It breathes and exhales into the next fragment as soon as the current one dies, dissolving the objective form of the mechanical eye into a subjective experience of the machine, perpetuating the experience of the sublime that he seeks within the landscapes.
Baju Butterfly Beach Babez (in motion)
LASALLE College of the Arts (Singapore / Singapore)
Artist : Sarah Noorhimli
Format : Video data
Description :Baju Butterfly Beach Babez (in motion) is an exploration of the artist’s sentiments towards the landscape of her home being one of artifice. It is an accompaniment to the photographic series, 'Baju Butterfly Beach Babez'. It explores the in-between state of a fictional and real landscape. Depicted are three nymph-like figures coexisting within an artificially constructed world. Collaborating with Apple VoiceOver function, she narrates her fragmented thoughts over scenes of these beach babez having fun.
The Barren Era
School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong ( China / Hong Kong)
Artist : MAO Yuxuan
Format : Video data
Description :The game takes place in the future where genetic modification technology is already widely developed. However, the Earth had been destroyed by nuclear weapons in the Third World War. Players need to utilize genetic modification technology to combine various body parts from different animals to create their own creatures to survive in the barren world. The main mechanic is to collect body parts of different creatures and combine them with the player's own creatures. Each body part has its unique abilities. Players need to think both creatively and strategically in order to build a strong creature with powerful skill combinations to fight against other creatures.
The Core
School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong ( China / Hong Kong)
Artist : LEE Kai Zheng, Nick
Format : Video data
Description :The Core aims to create a 3D isometric puzzle game utilising the rotation mechanism of a Rubik's cube. The player manipulates the surrounding blocks to solve the puzzles and reach the game's objectives.
Dad, Will You Teach Me Calligraphy?
School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong ( China / Hong Kong)
Artist : ¡wénrán zhào!
Format : Still image data
Description :After witnessing my father practicing calligraphy year after year, I decided to collect his calligraphy works and train a machinelearning algorithm to learn, or imitate, his style. The algorithm is also capable to generate non-existent Chinese characters-characters that look like Chinese but actually make no sense. Therefore, on the left, we get a purely generated calligraphy piece written in a false language, in my dad’s style. On the right is dad’s attempt of recreating the generated work-in his familiar brushstroke style, while the language background was stripped away. Like those pupils learning calligraphy, he started imitating his own style from scratch. This two-way imitation--machine imitating dad’s style and dad imitating the generated output—is where the intimate relationships between dad and calligraphy, digital and analog, and dad and me, get to be explored and perceived.
The Shape of War Sound
Hong Kong Baptist University (China / Hong Kong)
Artist : Hung Ngai Fung, Vermon
Format : Video data
Description :This project transforms an air defense warning sound into a visual image by different frequencies. The work records the shape of the air defense warning sound, and reminds us the destruction of wars and to raise awareness of people’s welfare to achieve “World Peace”.
Victory Bell
Hong Kong Baptist University (China / Hong Kong)
Artist : Lee Ching Ching Eunice
Format : Still image data
Description :This image sequence is generated from the audio of the VE Day of London's bell ring. This shows the end of the years of war, and finally, people worldwide can have peace. The pattern resembles a bell's metal texture, making the image seem cold and sharp even though it is the sound of celebration to show the uneasiness of the chaos without peace.
Penrose
University of the Arts London (UK / London)
Artist : Maryam Hassanein, Jirui Han, Branca Peixoto
Format : Video data
Description :Synopsis: An orange enters a journey of space and time with a staircase. A parallel, non-linear and conflicting relationship is built.
Formations
University of the Arts London (UK / London)
Artist : Paula Dischinger
Format : Still image data
Description :Human made systems or planted in our DNA? Formations: to make it a little bit easier for all of us, I name a few situations seen in the world of humans and animals, seen on this planet: When you line up for an ice cream, when you cue for a cinema ticket, when fishes are swimming against the current in a river, when tour de France cyclist race downhill, once moss grows in the shadow of a tree, once a river meandered through a valley, once frost joins a blade of grass in the morning, a orchestra and many more dancers. All structures, systems. And what all of them have in common is that through this system, they have a huge advantage, they have better conditions, and they profit from one another. My favorite example, trying to bring it closer to you: The V shape formation birds perform once they travel in the south for winter holidays. They do not just do it for us humans, to have a beautiful image and dance like performance on the sky. They mainly do it, because aerodynamically they have a huge advantage from this formation. They can safe a lot of energy by flying in the wind shadow of one another. Also in the front there are experienced birds, which know the way, which know the direction, so they do not have to take detours. It is about changing. All the positions can be changed, it is about sharing and spreading, distributing the pain. This performance: still life peace, shows 5 people being connected in a 30 meter black cotton fabric. The fabric gives them a certain space they can move in, the connection takes some of the personal freedom. The junction of 5 people brings up visual power. The different position are an artistic cooperation between itdividuums. This project is about the idea of a formation. Formation in terms of human made, has a quite negative connotation, in the sense of taking freedom for an individual and giving power to the group. I wonder a lot why this is connected to such criticism. I am not saying to blindly put trust in every situation. But maybe having a sense for good situations.
No name ritual
University of the Arts London (UK / London)
Artist : Maria Proshkowska
Format : Video data
Description :The "No name ritual" is a metaphor for reflection on the experiences collected and lived through and the future. The project is about the importance of working with these experiences, the permanence and routine of this process and how it is an integral part of any journey. The images of the main video are similar to the epic and important film for Ukraine and the reappraisal of its Soviet history, "Earth" by Oleksandr Dovzhenko. Dovzhenko endowed "Earth" with the symbolism of the mystical connection between the Ukrainian people and their land, arguing that man and nature were separated by collectivisation. In this way, Maria Proshkowska and Serhiy Morgunov look back to the past and re-evaluate their experiences. Today, after the start of the large-scale invasion, the video has taken on a new meaning, as it makes the multi-layered connection between the Ukrainians and the Ukrainian land even clearer. About half of the filming locations in the Kyiv region were occupied by Russian troops in February and March 2022 and mutilated by tank tracks. Being a refugee everywhere even here in virtual reality, Maria tries to find a connection between her old and new life, using a soil from homeland as a fundamental basis that painfully disappears at the same time on the horizonts.Understanding the impossibility of putting these memories together awakens us from our dreamlike state and makes us realise that the work of re-examining the experience should never stop so that future generations can find this archive intact.