【CAC·展览】超体：非人类的想象

                
                
超体：非人类的想象
展期：2106.12.17-12.30
地点：新时线媒体艺术中心（上海市普陀区莫干山路50号18号楼）
新时线媒体艺术中心（CAC）即将推出展览“超体：非人类的想象”（Hyperobject: Rendering the Non-Human）。此次展览由CAC_实验室研究与创造脉络之一，亦即将人工神经网络、计算机认知和四轴飞行器技术纳入艺术创作过程的实践衍生而来，其呈现了一个由机器和物自主生成的不断变化的多重现实，旨在打开一种超越常规美学的新可能，并进而挑战以人为主体的对时间、空间和日常世界的认识与感知。展览将从2016年12月17日持续至12月30日。
进入展厅后，观众首先看到的是艺术家塞缪尔·亚当·斯沃普（Samuel Adam Swope）所创作的《飘浮的房间》（Floating Room）：在一间貌似为舞台演出而布置的屋子里，一系列超实体（hyper-physical）物件悠然悬浮于半空中。《飘浮的房间》被构想为一件感官雕塑装置，其打造了一个横亘于物、飞行与空气之间，幻想和数字现实之间的交界面，并将室内空间从一个静态的，沉寂的，不断积灰的房间转化为一个刺激感官的，嗡嗡作响的，有风的声音景观。从起飞，到悬浮或飘流，再到降落，这些兼具技术性与家用特征的复合体经由气流或其效应而与其它室内人造物品发生碰触；它们将幽默与叙事混合并揉入当下对新兴飞行技术、产品递送的新奇方式以及未来智能家居的探索之中。
当斯沃普的《飘流的房间》将家用物品转化为轻如羽翼般悬浮在空中的奇趣时，菲托·萨格雷拉（Fito Segrera）的新作《[软]图像的变节》（The Treachery of [soft] Images）则借由计算机认知系统和网络技术来探索观念艺术的新形式。在《[软]图像的变节》中，艺术家为两台电脑显示器裱上画框，并刻意将连接在它们之间的网线暴露出来。此作品挪用了勒内·马格利特（Rene Magritte）在其画作《图像的变节》（The Treachery of Images）中的著名宣称“这不是一根烟斗”，并将其作为出发点用于艺术与机器学习的实验中，以此来揭示由智能网络系统在我们的自然认知之上所渲染的一种新的混合现实的观念。
带着恢复技术及其它非人类存在体的应有地位并承认它们与人类存在体具有同等的颠覆和转化潜力这一希冀，“超体：非人类的想象”通过具体而生动的实例进一步引发出有关物与进化的根本问题：如蒂莫西·莫顿（Timothy Morton）所言，“进化是彻底的非目的性的。进化没有高低之分，也不存在一种生命形式比另一种形式进化地更多或更少之说，”因此(人类的)智识不过是造访物的其中一种模式之一，而决非最高模式。
<关于艺术家>
塞缪尔·亚当·斯沃普（Samuel Adam Swope）
塞缪尔·亚当·斯沃普，1984年出生于美国密苏里州，现生活和工作于香港，是一名以空中艺术和创造有艺术价值的新情境而为人所知的艺术家。塞缪尔所依靠的，是他与生俱来的孩子般的好奇心、想象力和淘气的行为。他遵循启发式的方法，并认真地予以贯彻。他着迷于具有美学、工艺与技术性的装置，这些设备始终保持着一个核心概念，那就是科学与荒谬。
 
他对装置、表演、移动影像、科学、技术和DIY文化的当代应用的持续兴趣，使他能够在国际上的画廊、微型电影院及学术和文化机构中进行展览和演说。例如2016年香港ISEA、“这：哥伦比亚巡回坐标”( Este: Coordenadas Itinerantes Colombia )，“夜莺芝加哥”(Nightingale Chicago )以及2015年巴西电子语言国际艺术节（FILE）。
 
2007年，塞缪尔从密苏里州立大学雕塑系获得艺术学士学位。2014年，他在芝加哥艺术学院艺术与技术系获全额奖学金并取得硕士学位。2015年，在香港城市大学创意媒体学院担任研究员。
菲托·萨格雷拉（Fito Segrera）
菲托·萨格雷拉是一位专注于新技术与数字媒体创作的当代艺术家，同时也是一名视听及多媒体制作的技术专家，目前担任新时线媒体艺术中心研究/创造部主任。他以优异的成绩从波哥大的豪尔赫·塔德奥·洛萨诺大学(Jorge Tadeo Lozano University of Bogotá)毕业，2013年至2015年获福布莱特（Fulbright）奖学金进入纽约帕森斯设计学院（Parsons, The New School）设计与技术专业学习并取得艺术硕士学位。他目前的研究与创作实践采纳数字哲学（digital philosophy）、人工智能、一元论和现代物理学的元素，同时也使用物理计算、软件程序及信息/远程通讯技术来探索关于现实本质及宇宙的物性的本体论问题。他参加的主要展览有：“变奏新媒体艺术”（巴黎，2016）、PLUNC艺术节（里斯本，2016）、西岸艺术博览会（上海，2015）、新时线媒体艺术中心（上海，2015）、SIGGRAPH电脑图像和互动技术展览（2014）、COLLISION 20（波士顿计算机艺术画廊，2014）、国际表演双年展（休斯顿，2014）、SXSW艺术节（德州奥斯汀，2014）、EYEBEAM（纽约，2013）、 AGORA COLLECTIVE CENTER（柏林，2013）、Dorkbot（纽约，2013）、Harvestworks（纽约，2013）等。
媒体联系：sasa.qin@chronusartcenter.org
Hyperobject: Rendering the Non-Human
Chronus Art Center is pleased to present Hyperobject: Rendering the Non-Human, an exhibition resulting from CAC_LAB’s research and creation practice integrating artificial neural networks, cognitive computation and quadcopter technologies into the art-making process. Featuring a multiplicity of ever-changing layers of reality rendered by the machine and things through autopoiesis, Hyperobject opens up a new potential beyond conventional aesthetics, thus challenging human knowledge and perception of time, space and the mundane world. The exhibition will be on view from December 17th to December 30th, 2016.
Viewers entering the exhibition space will first encounter an array of hovering hyper-physical objects within Samuel Adam Swope’s staged house: Floating Room. Conceived as a sensorial, sculptural installation, Floating Room shapes interfaces between our things, flight, and air, and between fantasy and digital realization, transforming the domestic space from static and quiet dust-collecting rooms into sensational buzzing, windy soundscapes. From taking off, to hovering or drifting, and then landing, these floating technological-domestic hybrids touch other home interior artifacts through air currents or impact, embodying a message that mixes humor and narration into contemporary inquiries regarding emerging flight technologies, novel approaches to product delivery, and future smart homes.
While Swope’s Floating Room shifts domestic products into featherweight, hovering airborne whimsies, The Treachery of [soft] Images, a newly made piece by Fito Segrera, proposes an inquiry into new forms of conceptual art by making use of cognitive computational systems and Internet technologies. In The Treachery of [soft] Images, two framed computer-displays are hung on the wall and networked together. The piece appropriates Rene Magritte's famous statement “This is not a pipe” in his painting The Treachery of Images and utilizes it as the starting point for an experiment in art and machine learning, hence revealing a new hybridized notion of reality rendered over our natural cognition by intelligent on-line systems.
As an attempt at restoring the technical and other non-human existence on par with human being to its due place as an equally disruptive and transformative potentiality, Hyperobject: Rendering the Non-Human with its concrete and vivid examples leads up to fundamental questions on things and the evolution, which in Timothy Morton’s terms, “is radically non-teleological. In evolution there is no high or low. A life form is not more or less evolved than another life form,” and knowing is thus just one mode of accessing a thing and by no means the top access mode.
<About the Artists>
 Samuel Adam Swope
Samuel Adam Swope, born 1984 in Missouri, USA, currently based in Hong Kong, is an artist most recognized for his Aerial Art and for inventing novel situations with artistic merit. Samuel feeds off his innate boyish curiosities, imagination, and mischievous behavior. He follows heuristic methodologies and seriously plays. He fancies apparatuses with aesthetics, craft, and technique, but that maintain a core concept related to science and whimsy.
 
His continued interest in contemporary uses of apparatuses, performance, technology and DIY culture has enabled him to exhibit and lecture internationally in art spaces and academic and cultural institutions, for example ISEA 2016 Hong Kong, Este: Coordenadas Itinerantes Colombia, Nightingale Chicago, and FILE 2015 Brazil.
 
Samuel received a BFA in sculpture from Missouri State University in 2007. In 2014 he earned his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago within the Art and Technology department as their full merit scholar. In 2015 he was a Research Associate at School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong.
Fito Segrera
Fito Segrera is an artist, technologist and Head of Research/Creation at Chronus Art Center, Shanghai. He studied fine arts and audiovisual / Multimedia production at Jorge Tadeo Lozano University of Bogotá, Colombia and completed a MFA in Design and Technology with honors at Parsons, The New School, New York, while being a Fulbright Scholar from 2013 until 2015. His current research and creative practice appropriates elements from digital philosophy, artificial intelligence, monism and modern physics while using physical computing, software programming and information/telecommunication technologies to inquiry in fundamental ontological questions regarding the nature of reality and the physicality of the universe. His main exhibitions are: Variations New Media Art Paris 2016, PLUNC Festival Lisbon 2016, West Bund Art Center Shanghai 2015, Chronus Art Center Shanghai 2015, SIGGRAPH 2014 Canada, Collision 20 & 21 at Boston Ciberarts Gallery 2014, Huston International Performance Biennale 2014, SXSW Austin TX 2014, EYEBEAM New York 2013, Agora Collective Center Berlin 2013, Dorkbot NYC 2013, Harvestworks New York 2013.