Category Archives: Time

Zexian Hu

Zexian Hu

Memory Distortion

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The photographic series “Memory Distortion” is inspired by people’s memories and experiences in memory, such memories have completely different backgrounds in time and space, and memories of things constitute our imagination of the time and space that existed in the past. We can certainly move around in space at will. But strictly speaking, we can never go back to a point we reached before, because it is already another space in another dimension of time. After all, time can stretch and fold, but not to retreat.

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Jingwen Zhang

Jingwen Zhang

Fragment

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What exactly counts as human? And what exactly counts as nature? As humans overly pursue the beauty of urban construction on natural land, the stability of natural ecosystems is gradually being destroyed by human over-exploitation. For my project, I asked humans to hold up an image of a natural landscape and photograph it in a city that smells of steel and concrete. What happens next to this image of a natural landscape?

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Siyi Zhou

Siyi Zhou

Absent Presence

In a simulated canyon that does not exist in reality, are humans the audience of nature? How do we define the presence of humans and nature?

 

The project explores the relationship and boundaries between humans, nature and media, refuting the dichotomy of biological/non-biological, embodied/non-embodied existence.

 

In a future where human dominance is disintegrated, the human body is disintegrated or confined to a virtual natural environment by the screen, creating an eerie sense of participation in nature. As well as blurring the position of the viewer in the simulated landscape, humans are both the viewer and the watched of nature, exploring the long-standing dichotomy between humans and nature.

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Naomi

Naomi

Heavy Heart

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Heavy Heart is a multi-sensory installation that explores the connection between images, memory, and affect within personal family archives. Through a non-linear format, the video essay follows ordinary people with extraordinary stories who reflect on experiences of togetherness, loss, and dreams.  Building from Tina Campt’s research on haptic images, I suggest that images and memories can act in a call-and-response relationship as the construction of the image itself acts as a ‘call’ to evoke visceral ‘responses’ connected to memory. This installation invites the viewer to contemplate their relationship to images and how it has influenced their identity and knowledge in the communities to which they belong.

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Zhaoqi Jiang

Zhaoqi Jiang

Turritopsis dohrnii

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Turritopsis dohrnii is a species of small,biologically immortal jellyfish. As the materialization of Infinity, its existence is like a miracle. Its theoretically infinite life cycle is just like hydrological cycle. This video is trying to build a loop of water as a metaphor for the infinity of nature.

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Sidi Li

Sidi Li

Rainy season never leave

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A person’s life is made up of many moments, which are usually attached to certain carriers and will record many moments and memories, which will make things that change from time to time permanent.It rarely rains in my hometown, but it often rains in London. It turns out that I have mixed feelings about the rain in London, because it is rare for me, and it carries many memories for me. I have had pink hair since I was in London and I love it. But it also fades quickly, like all “moments”. It is an experience as much as the rain, I print the pink hair on paper, let them bend, deform, fade, I cannot change them or force them not to change. Because “instant” is “eternal”, but “instant” can never be “eternal”.

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Oluwasegun Wycliff Alabi

Oluwasegun
Wycliff Alabi

Mindful Disruption

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“Mindful disruption” refers to a concept that combines the principles of mindfulness and disruptive innovation. It involves approaching disruptions or changes in a conscious, intentional, and aware manner, with a focus on positive outcomes and sustainable transformation. Mindfulness, derived from Buddhist traditions, involves bringing one’s attention to the present moment, being aware of one’s thoughts, feelings, and surroundings without judgment. It is often practiced through meditation and other techniques to cultivate a state of heightened awareness and clarity. Disruptive innovation, on the other hand, refers to the process of introducing new products, services, or business models that significantly alter the existing market landscape. Disruptive innovations typically challenge traditional ways of doing things and often create new opportunities or reshape industries. The concept of mindful disruption brings these two ideas together. It encourages individuals and organisations to approach disruptions and innovations with a mindful mindset, emphasising qualities such as intention, awareness, and ethical considerations. By applying mindfulness to the process of disruption, one can navigate change more consciously and empathetically, minimising negative consequences and maximising positive outcomes.

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Ying Yang

Ying Yang

Parallel Universe

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Parallel Universe is a development and extension of Ying Yang’s previous project ‘Peep Summer’, where she has been dedicated to discovering the beauty of everyday life from a special perspective. In this project, Ying Yang uses a mirror as a medium to observe the world in the mirror, in order to explore the new fusion point between the invisible Angle behind and the reality vision in front. From the two sides of the object, think about whether the eye betrays the essence. Are dead trees in the real world in parallel universes or alive?

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Ming Li

Ming Li

Urban Vascular

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Reality is equal for everyone in the world, something that exists objectively, who has some rules of his own, just like there are veins and bones in the body of an animal, gravity in the world, the Roche limit. In the midst of a city there are also streets, and alleyways, connecting the different subdivisions of the city. But people perceive things differently, and everyone feels the same thing differently, just as there are 10,000 Hamlets in 10,000 people. People are bound to carry their own feelings with them as they use their eyes or tools to record their exploration of the world, so can we say this: “Everything in the world that is built and produced by humans is a product of human feelings”. What we know in the process of knowing the world is also the product of belonging to the perceptions of others. The streets of the city are everywhere; they are like veins that connect the various areas of the city. Although these streets exist objectively, it may not be entirely consistent in each person’s perception.

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Amina El-Edroos

Amina El-Edroos

Temporal Fragments

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The work explores the fragmented experience of time and the interplay between visual representation and identity. Drawing inspiration from the rich history of classical Islamic art and its mathematical foundations, the artist employs Islamic geometric patterns to highlight the connection between historical artistic principles and media art. Using visual techniques such as fragmented imagery, glitch aesthetics, and abstract forms, the work visualises the multidimensional nature of time in the digital age. Additionally, by referring how contemporary images arise from non-visual data, such as code or text, through specific algorithms, the artist tries to blur the boundaries between the visual and the abstract. Through the interplay of visual techniques and historical inspirations, the work invites viewers to contemplate complexities of our digitally influenced temporal experiences and how they shape our understanding of self and identity in the contemporary world.

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Haowei Zhang

Haowei Zhang

One path of absurdity

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My works are rooted in my training in photography as a documentary and art medium, which investigates the topic of life, time, and loneliness, exploring the relationship among image, text, and Experience of life. My final work has two parts, photography and video, and The main topic of my work is loneliness. I start from the “society of spectacle”(by Guy Debord). I work on the topic of people that are controlled, or oppressed by society, and loneliness. What I’m doing now is more about myself, showing the same thing, about that People can feel lonely in society, even if there are people everywhere. The second part is a video that reflects my understanding of the “experience of life”. After the first part of the photography, I developed the relationship between loneliness and life. So I realize that nihilism and existence, both are in my life experience. Sometimes humans just move forward in life in a way that is powerless but necessary, whether they know the reason or not.

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Kaiyuan Deng

Kaiyuan Deng

Vibrating Void

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What occurs when places with visible entities are transformed into infinite void? With this doubt, I use photography to build an atmosphere in which the sense of time and space turns subtle and eccentric. The three-dimensional reality seems to collapse in it into a virtual space synthesised by Ai tools. The figures of the human being are stripped away at the visual level in a place of activity that was originally subordinated to society. Their functions are compressed, and their practical values are limited. Nevertheless, people’s judgements and evaluations of them, based on the experience of socially shared behaviour, remain as attached to such ‘non-place’ as the souls of the dead. Thus, everything begins to appear traceable and wobbly. The scent of death wafts through them, and an inner activity close to the instinct for survival reverberates violently in the silent images, penetrating my eyes and blowing a breeze.

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Ziyao Lin

Ziyao Lin

Archive 2023 - Stories of My Life with AI

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This project, conceived and created over the first half of 2023, started with the concept of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) archive, which I then documented over a period of several months.

In the first part, the anonymous artist author presents her daily conversations, practices and life with ChatGPT as informative visual images. These fragmented recordings present the possibilities and potential problems of AI, a giant and complete intelligent system reflected through the lives and existence of distinct, insignificant individuals.

Another part of the work is a video essay, in which the AI speaks from their perspective about the archive, recounting its creation over the same period of time. It includes details of events from the AI’s point of view, as well as the AI’s flirtations with and comments on human behaviour.

This archive, which mixes memory and truth, blurring the boundaries between the private and the public, explores the hot topic of AI in 2023, how it is slowly entering the public eye and influencing action, throwing up the question of how humans will live with AI technology in the future.

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