Open Media Lab: Non-Fiction Today
今天,我们不科幻了;因为今天,社会现实已经科幻。因此,我们 Open Media Lab 想从十一年来持续的未来学研发工作中抽身稍作休息。而未来学研究的对象:未来,其实并不存在。一切的未来,只不过是当下工作轨迹之延续与累积。事实上,存在当下、认知当下才是我们一直以来的真正核心关注。 当我们惊觉自己身体受到科技生活/机器生活习惯而生形变,自己已在不知不觉中成为了后人类,每天不断费心维护手机社交媒体中的自我第二存活,而元宇宙地皮的平方米单价涨得比现实地产还要飞快之时,我们需要当下煞住。 我们立即面对非虚构的今天,Non-Fiction Today,NFT。在这次全新的艺术研发成品展示中,我们静静地用虚实互换的双重祭祀送走瘟神,换迎来更新更强大的加密圣像;默默地以虚拟链状拍卖形式交易着热血青年的美图狂秀;我们讨论著如何用徒手的想像力去对抗生成式对抗网络 (GAN) ... 然而,这一切,也只不过是试图跳脱意识圈的终极谐振。
It’s Non-fiction today. For today, Science Fiction has become our social reality. Therefore, today, we at Open Media Lab will take a brief break from our intensive work in futurological research and development that has become our history for the past 11 years. And in fact, the subject of futurology, the future, does not really exist. Future, is nothing but the continuation and accumulation of traces of our work now. Contrary to common perception, existence at the moment and awareness of the moment, now, has always been our true core concern. When we shockingly realize that our bodies have been transformed by our technological/machine life, and that we have become post-human unknowingly, that we are investing huge amount of effort in maintaining our Second Existence in our cellphone-based social media platforms, that the unit prices per square meter in Metaverse have been skyrocketing faster than that of our local real estate, we need to hit the pause button, immediately. We will be facing our Non-Fiction, Today, N.F.T. In this exhibition showcasing our brand-new R&D results in art, we will be silently using the double-layered, interchanging virtual and reality ritual sacrifice to send off the God of Plague, so that we can welcome in the entourage of crypto deities; we will be exchanging the youthful and wildly pretty JPEGs using chain-structured auctions behind the virtual online reality; we will be fighting Generative Adversarial Network with our bare-handed imagination... And all that, are but our attempts to break away from the ultimate harmonic oscillation of the Noosphere.
School of Intermedia Art, China Academy of Art
2010年姚大钧在中国美术学院全新的跨媒体艺术学院创建了 Open Media Lab;之后十一年来,开放媒体系坚持以未来学为导向,以科幻作为方法,持续思考文化、艺术、科技的融合。2016年姚大钧创建了 virREAL 艺术科技中心,中心配备脑波与感知分析、表情动作捕捉、VR虚拟实境,沉浸式影音空间、人工智能机器等前沿的技术环境,并举办大型国际展演活动,提供三十位硕士博士生深度学习研发和创作的机会。 跨媒体艺术的原意是指在媒介与媒介之间创造出新的媒介平台或艺术载体。这十年来姚大钧开设了多种国内少见的新课程,如社交媒体艺术,动态影像声音现场演出,声音艺术,未来书写,应用软件设计,科幻创作,科幻VR,科幻介面设计等。Open Media Lab 的信念是要从媒介材料主导的艺术意识形态中解放出来,最终要能“忘器存道”,目标是培育“新文艺复兴人”。
Dajuin Yao founded the Open Media Lab in 2010, upon the establishment of the new School of Intermedia Art, at China Academy of Art. For these past ten years, the futurology-oriented Open Media Lab has been persistently using sci-fi as its methodology, and devoting itself to the alchemy of culture, art and technology. In 2016, Dajuin founded the virREAL Center for Art and Technology, which has provided his 30 some Master's and Ph.D. students a technology-savvy environment, complete with brainwave and sensory detection, facial and motion capture, virtual and mixed reality, immersive sound and visuals, and AI and robotics. The original meaning of Intermedia art is to create new mediums and platforms "between" existing mediums. And Dajuin has established many courses that have not been offered in this country, such as live social media art, live audio-visual performance, sound art, future writing, sci-fi art, sci-fi virtual reality, FUI design, etc. Open Media Lab believes in liberating oneself from the medium-oriented ideology of art, and aims toward "forgetting the wares and keeping the Way," and finally to nurture a new generation of "New Renaissance Man/Woman."