Heid！Yax Lus！
"Through the life cycle view of 'lower world' and 'heaven' in Yaru King culture, the spatial narrative from 'real world' to 'heaven pole home' is narrated."
“Hey! Aru! (Hmong: Heid! Yax Lus!) It is a virtual exhibition with the theme of the Miao heroic epic “King Yalu”, showing a picture of the “Miao universe” reproduced by AIGC – from the formation of heaven and earth, the origin of human beings, to cultural invention, war migration. Based on the life cycle view of “lower world” and “Heaven” in King Yalu’s culture, the spatial narrative from “real world” to “heaven pole home” is narrated.
“King Yalu” is the first long-length heroic epic of the Miao people in history. It was originally spread orally in the Miao language without written records until it was discovered in 2009 and included in the list of China’s intangible cultural heritage. The Chinese-Italian translation of “King Yalu” was published in 2012, and it began to enter the public eye.
In the 26,000-line epic of King Yalu, curator Guo Duoer and literary support Yu Zhiqing extracted some representative epic texts and presented them to five AIGC artists. The artists then compiled these epic texts into AI painting keywords, and used AI algorithms and models to allow machine learning to evolve, ultimately generating 35 AI illustrations that together represent the journey of King Yaru.
Guided Tour
Curator
Ye Mai is a first-year graduate student majoring in digital curation at the USC-SJTU Institute of Cultural and Creative Industry. Her research interests include serious game design in exhibitions and game-based learning. With a background in science and engineering and more than eight years of dance experience, she focuses on the integration of video, painting, dance and other art forms.
Artist
Li Tan Zhirou, a first-year student of popular Science product design at the School of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University, is an amateur artist with a background in industrial design. She loves games and photography but is not proficient in them. She is full of interest in interactive experience in virtual space — “Create more interesting experiences”. Participants are expected to have fun.
The Door of Liminality
As the final part of the “Digital Exhibition Design” course and curatorial practice, the exhibition “Threshold Gate” has been opened on June 30th, jointly organized by USC-SJTU Institute of Cultural and Creative Industry and Raiden INST, with Chen Junyao and Huang Songhao as the chief curators. The exhibition is co-curated by four curators from the 2022 MFA of USC-SJTU Institute of Cultural and Creative Industry.