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Coordinates Shift
"Coordinates shift, we drive between worlds."
The exhibition “Coordinate Shift” is divided into four parts and is also a four-step process to form a virtual immunization program. The drawings, images, data of the early stage of the virtual immunization program and the final vaccine dynamic sculpture are presented respectively.
With the body trapped in the room and the consciousness wandering on the Internet,does the absorption of information begin to become aimless and desperate? Has the delivery of information become intentional and algorithmic? These reflections are discussed in the exhibition’s mysterious underground space. This virtual exhibition rejects the customary linear logic of the physical world in space, and the audience will open the key to the next level of space through one portal, jumping from the huge cell body that explodes after a meteorite falls to the enclosed space shrouded by the roar of war.
The properties of matter itself can evoke memories, emotions and habits of behavior. When we look at the paintings buried in the rolling terrain, these vaguely visible images are reminders of the artist’s experiences-medical gloves, medical thermometers, throats constantly swallowed, airplane Windows, men wearing masks in Chinatown, New York.
From personal feelings, to collective identity, and to social effects, artists have been thinking and adjusting their positioning. From simply making works to carrying out Catholic and interdisciplinary learning, how to transform virtual practice into social value is also the core of this program. The choice to display Cryptovoxels, a virtual world built on the Ethereum blockchain, is to break the limitations of offline physics and restore the experience of online collaborative work during the epidemic period. Here, there’s no gravity, no tail, no distance. We’re going to be particles, moving back and forth between coordinate systems.
About the Artist
Shicheng WANG, born in Wuhan in 1992, graduated from the Maryland Institute of Art. He has worked and lived in Wuhan, New York and Shanghai. His artistic practice involves painting, installation, performance and new media. In Wang’s artistic practice, the artist expresses his experience and understanding of the unpredictable flow of life through the poetic expression of different media. He uses his artwork to discuss the personal, cultural, and historical interconnections between his homeland and other places, while also trying to show how the dynamic and changing society in which he lives has shaped him.
Guided Tour
Online Discussion
Opportunity for discussion:
As the end of the exhibition “Coordinate Transfer”, we invited Shicheng WANG and Zitong LI to have an online conversation. This exchange is based on the two artists’ recent projects “Virtual Immunization Program” and “Pasti Money”. The selected topics and research objects are related to virus/disease, virtual financial system, NFT and other issues, and it is also an opportunity for us to understand different perspectives on similar topics.
Host: Xinchen DU(Curator)
Guest: Shicheng WANG, Zitong LI
Editing: Yibei CHEN
Listen to the navigation:
00:44 Origin of the creation of the Virtual Immunization Program
01:50 Works of game vision
02:25 Authoring methods for remote collaboration
03:15 Why Use NFT
04:18 Why did you write Pasti Money?
06:20 The narrative of money circulation and disease
08:08 The type of virus corresponds to the monetary value
09:48 Mechanics promote the growth of the work
12:28 Smart contracts simulate similarities between vaccine distribution and art trading
14:33 Financial attributes and trading means as creative ideas
16:01 The circulation of Pasti currency in the community
18:31 Feedback from the community and institutions
20:45 The relationship between humans and viruses
24:00 Opposition to gamification design
27:15 How to consider the meta-universe dialectically
Dialogue Artist:
Zitong LI is a Taiwanese conceptual artist. She graduated from the Department of Agricultural Economics of Taiwan University and received a full scholarship to the Master of Creative Arts of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Master of Architecture of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her work combines academic research to focus on how people regain autonomy by establishing political, gender, and disease identities through identity. Her work travels through performance, web art, installation, experimental film, performance and other art forms, attempting to use art as a method to examine the authoritative forms and colonization of contemporary art and technology.