CV03 | Blocks of Memory
"Memory is the vessel of consciousness in which the past is extracted."
The exhibition will present the artist’s memory of Chaozong Street in three dimensions. Through close-range mapping and virtual model reconstruction of this demolished street building, Cryptovoxels is no longer a continuous and smooth model like memory, but a voxelized model with the texture of square particles. This is an exposure of model heterogeneity. At the same time, it is also the deconstruction of seemingly complete memory traces left by technical objects.
At the same time, the words in the space and the puzzle-solving system built by language become a new space, in which the audience combines scattered information to form the answers of the game, that is actively constructs an information space constructed by words in their minds and builds it into a de-visualized space. The final answer to the riddle will be reproduced in the hyperlinked web space, which is also the door to the next space of the project, a door to the historical imagination system about Chaozong Street.
Memory is not a static state, but a system that flows through an algorithm; The exhibition is also not a bookkeeping book about history, but a space re-created by artists and participants. The exhibition will combine puzzle games and church activities to provide a specific space in Cryptovoxels, so that participants’ precious memories can be added to the exhibition space by close-range mapping technology. Make a pixel block, a line of text, or a hyperlink, awaken a new memory.
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About the Artist
Haoran CHANG is a multimedia artist living and working in Shanghai. He currently focuses on the creation and research of spatial computing media. His work and practice revolve around the threshold of virtual space and its relationship to physical and social space. Haoran CHANG is also the founder of the Shape-Shifting Dragon Virtual Reality Gallery, dedicated to combining art with immersive media.