
爱心节上海
《NeORIZON》是一件城市互动艺术装置,由闫晓东策划,于2008年10月18日至22日在上海地球节期间为地平线户外展览制作。
《NEORIZON》城市的天际线定义了城市的轮廓。这是其身份的可见部分。与此同时,天际线改变并取代了地平线,即可见世界的界限。这座城市正在通过创造一个新的地平线来隐藏地平线。城市是人为人而建的地方,同时也扩展和中和了人的个性。
把每个人的能量转化成城市的过程并不为人所知。人应该被视为这种启迪的砖瓦吗?《地平线》将这一过程以一种象征性的形式呈现出来。
这座城市似乎被“IDWorms”入侵了。
在上海浦东世纪大道上,IDWorms正在地上爬行。它们邀请人们进去看看,然后被转换成二维(QR)码,这显然是一种中立的识别人和物体的方式。如果你不知道如何解读它们,它们看起来都一样。
在主屏幕上,一个城市景观(IDscape)是由拟人化的idcode的黑白像素构建而成的。
在互联网上,每个人都可以获得自己的二维码,并将其用作个人签名,每个人都可以用手机识别,就像识别大众消费产品一样。
在莫里斯·贝纳永(Maurice Benayoun)的作品中,城市装置是艺术家称之为“批判性融合”(Critical Fusion)的最明显部分,将虚构引入现实,以提高其透明度。《NeORIZON》是将我们日常生活的密码引入物理空间的提示和破译的作品之一。
eArts Festival Shanghai
NeORIZON is a urban interactive art installation produced for Horizon Outdoor exhibit during eArts Festival Shanghai, October 18-22 2008 curated by Yan Xiaodong.
NeORIZON
The city skyline defines the “profile” of the City. It is the visible part of its identity. At the same time, the skyline alters and replaces the horizon line, the limits of the visible world. The city is hiding the horizon by creating a new one. So “human” like!
The city is a place built by the people for the people, at the same time it expands and neutralises their individualities.
The process of converting everyone’s energy into a city is not a well-known one. Should people be seen as bricks of this edification? NeORIZON makes this process visible in a symbolic form.
The city seems to be invaded by the “IDWorms”.
The IDWorms, are crawling on the ground on Century avenue, Pudong, Shanghai. They invite people to have a look inside, then being converted into 2D (QR)Codes which are an apparently neutral way of identifying people and objects. They all look the same if you don’t know how to decipher them.
On the main screen a city landscape (IDscape) is being built out of the black and white pixels of the personified IDCodes.
On the Internet, everyone can get its own 2D code and use it as a personal signature that everybody will recognise by using cell phones as though they were identifying mass consumption products.
In Maurice Benayoun’s work, urban installations are the most visible part of what the artist calls Critical Fusion, introducing fiction into reality to improve its transparency. NeORIZON is one of the works that introduce hints to help and decipher codes of our daily lives into the physical space.