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Exhibit shows how humans have merged with video screens
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“The Screen Generation,” a solo exhibition by artist Xu Wenkai exploring the changing relationship between humans and the video screens that surround them, will open tomorrow at chi K11 Art Space.
Known for his ingenious and innovative experiments in integrating computer software with art, in this exhibition, Xu presents six of his latest works.
The six pieces that make up “The Screen Generation” are titled “Soft,” “Repeatedly,” “Hard,” “Pure,” “Static” and “Noise.”
“We belong to a generation who have long been surrounded by information technology,” Xu said. “The screen in a broader sense, is non-flat, mobile, movable, constituting a complete ecosystem. Screens are ubiquitous within our culture, allowing us to be interconnected as a whole.
“The previous definition of a screen that was ‘electrical appliance for the display of images and colors,’ has long been obsolete. As digital screen users, we have been developed into a screen generation where we become the screen itself.”
The six new pieces all cast light on the self-display of technology — that is, technology using itself to represent itself.
Ultimately, the works exist not in themselves, but in interactions with a human, who takes in the sensory information provided by the work.
“It is interesting to think that the human is in some way constituted by the information that the screen projects out, which then meets the human, the audience, half way. The human is the other to the screen, as the screen is to the human,” Xu concluded.
As one of the young generation of artists sponsored by the K11 Art Foundation, Xu is a leading new media artist in China. His work features exploration and application of data in various forms, endeavoring to present a full picture of his practice and his thought behind it through the modulation/demodulation of data and reality.
Date: Through February 15, 10am-6pm
Address: Chi K11 Art Space, 300 Huaihai Rd M.
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