CV05 | Seawall Walk
"For thousands of years, faced with the endless sea, people have naturally asked: does it have an edge? "
This exhibition is an extension and attempt of artist Liu Jiayu’s installation “Waves” in the virtual space Cryptovoxels. The artist continued and developed the previous idea that the wave data of the physical world would be transformed into digital pixels that would continuously wash across the virtual boundary.
In the real world, the boundaries of the ocean are obvious, such as long coastlines or levees. However, in the virtual world, the transparent “walls” between the digital plots are constructed in the invisible space. While the wall of the three-dimensional building is the natural boundary that defines the virtual space, the digital sea presented on the land of the meta-universe is to emphasize the gaze of the virtual boundary. The artist tries to explore the possibilities of the ocean from the opposite side of the infinity – the seawall. The work explores the boundary between the sea and the shore, the boundary between the infinite and the finite, and the boundary between the virtual and the real.
The sea and sky are one color, and the sea breeze blows strongly; The waves are crashing on the reef. There is no other bank. In the face of constantly iterating media scales and focusing on the eternal theme sea of the earth, the artist throws out the proposition of “how will digital nature be presented and perceived”. If the 1.0 version of Waves converts material reality into data experience, enabling the audience to experience nature in a new dimension, then the 2.0 version of Seawall Walk converts real data into a meta-cosmic landscape, and further explores the digital nature not only by imitating and reacting to the nature, but also by transforming and reconstructing the natural landscape.
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About the Artist
Liu Jiayu, born in 1990 in Liaoning, China, graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2014 and established Liu Jiayu Studio in the same year, which is committed to the creative practice and research of new media art. The reflection of nature in nature has prompted her creation to explore the multiple relationships between human and nature, explore the various perspectives people hold to observe nature, and explore the data sources as essential clues to become communication nodes in the object network, shuttling, encountering, rejecting, penetrating and merging among different fields. Under the constantly updated media, she uses the installation as the port of transmission and feedback to explore the virtual field and the real world, and causes the audience’s behavioral response and emotional resonance through the collage and replacement of space, which makes her creation itself always in the “re-creation” of people.