Against rapid advancements in digital technology, hot topics like blockchain, metaverse, and AI are constantly evolving, reshaping our reality and accelerating the visualization of our future landscape. Meanwhile, the boundaries between society and nature, spirituality and materiality, human intelligence, and artificial intelligence are increasingly blurred, as if imagination and creativity are driven towards the desolate wilderness surrounding the technological hub. Amidst the surging tide of technology, what entities emerge? How should we face these emerging yet silent phenomena?
Using mediums such as metaverse, video installations, 3D imagery, science fiction novels, digital collectibles, and experimental games, we explore topics like AI ontology, Chinese futurism, new landscape viewing techniques, and virtual identities within the context of the AI revolution.
Through the intertwining reflection of various mediums, such as visuals, installations, performances, and animations, we endeavor to construct an organic and intricate system within a simulated landscape to restore the tranquil essence of being.
From the living room to the wilderness, we journeyed with the human landscape as our destination, anniversaries as our guideposts, ancient Greek tragedy as our method, and the realm of performance and projection as our domain, venturing into unexplored territories.
About BRAIN GARDEN
Brain Garden – The 5th Zhijiang International Youth Art Festival 2023 & CAA Graduation Season kicked off online and offline concurrently on June 1. This edition of Youth Art Festival is co-hosted by Zhejiang Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education, Zhejiang Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, Publicity Department of the CPC Hangzhou Municipal Committee, China Academy of Art (CAA), and Zhejiang Conservatory of Music under the guidance of the Publicity Department of CPC Zhejiang Provincial Committee and Hangzhou Municipal People's Government. The festival features a wide variety of online and offline artistic shows and activities centered on the future and the youth. It is a grand city-wide artistic feast in Hangzhou.
The Youth Art Festival is presented online on CAACOSMOS and West Lake Sky Screen and offline at six venues, namely Zhejiang Exhibition Hall, West Lake Art Museum, Zhejiang Art Museum, World Tourism Museum (1368 Xiangxi Road), Quan Shanshi Art Center, and Yichuang Town, with a total exhibition area of nearly 70,000 square meters. Over 3,000 works from more than 2,500 Class of 2023 graduates (including 1,766 undergraduates, 688 masters, and 97 doctors) are showcased. Over 2,000 young artists, designers, writers, and scholars have gathered online for this youthful art event.
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