Interstellar, 2024
Installation, Resin and Metal tube
80x60x40cm (one pair)
Interstellar was created during the pandemic. I built a virtual model through algorithms and then used 3D printing technology to try to reproduce my dreams back to the audience's vision. During the pandemic, human society once again started the collective virtual mode (collective consciousness mode), and my creative mode also changed from the traditional studio to only "one computer" and "one brain". As the whole society entered a large-scale dormant period, I began to discover the feasibility of combining data art with dreams. In the long observation of my own dreams, I began to try to outline the dreams. I used a lot of related words such as "fear", "anxiety", "nothingness", "consciousness", "future", "dream" in this data model. At the same time, I also used a large area of black to strengthen the visual deviation between "tangible" and "intangible" when people observe dreams.
When Metaphrica Studio offered me the opportunity to exhibit, I began to rethink this work. I was not satisfied with the concept of "object" that was only built by data at that time. I re-cut the work in reality, using the most traditional installation material, metal pipes, to cut and reconstruct the work. This increases the stability and certainty of the work's structure, and also reinforces the integration and mutual exclusivity between dreams created by data and dreams created by humans.