At 4 p.m. on January 31, 2024, the "Effective Acceleration 2140" digital technology art exhibition, curated by Gu Zhenqing and produced by Lv Hongrong, officially opened at the Jupiter Art Museum. This exhibition is co-sponsored by Shenzhen Jupiter Art Museum and Shenzhen Wanzhong Art Heart Cultural Creativity***, and supported by the Digital Art and Blockchain Laboratory of the Art Development Center of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Shenzhen Digital Creative Industry Association, Quantum School, Beijing Li Space, Mechanical Starlink, and Hangzhou Yixian Advanced Technology***.
Group photo of guests at the opening ceremony of the exhibition.
The exhibition invited 41 Chinese and international artists to participate in the exhibition, aiming at **web 3.The rapid development of 0 technology, artificial intelligence technology and digital art, as well as the social, economic, and cultural issues related to them, reveal an immersive web30 Metaverse, showing the perfect integration of culture, art and technology. The whole exhibition is divided into three thematic exhibition areas: "From Zero to One", "Super Alignment" and "Effective Acceleration", which establish the academic background and academic clues of the exhibition from the perspective of digital art history document research.
Curator Gu Zhenqing guided the audience.
The exhibited works cover the works of artists in the early coding art, generative art, crypto art, AIGC and other emerging digital fields, aiming to sort out the development of digital art and open up a new spiritual time and space of human society through the creative experience of the artist's combination of technology and art. The artist's video installations, mixed reality, holographic technology, digital encryption, and artificial intelligence artworks construct an interactive and dynamic exhibition site. Their work continues to refresh the retina experience, showcasing the beauty of mathematical and geometric formulas, and revealing a kind of revelation from an invisible extradimensional, parallel universe, a testament to the endless frontier of human creativity, the philosophical depth of curiosity, and the transformative power of technological innovation.
Exhibition view. 
Exhibition view. At the opening ceremony, Gu Zhenqing, the curator of the exhibition, and Lv Hongrong, the director of the Jupiter Art Museum, delivered speeches successively, pointing out that with the help of large-scale model artificial intelligence, human science and technology continue to move towards the integration of virtual and real, and the integration of carbon and silicon Web30 metaverse world. At the same time, the creation and display, research and collection of digital art have also accelerated on the platform of art museums in China today, and are synchronized with some developed countries in Europe and the United States. Among them, the performance of Chinese digital art, crypto art, and AIGC art is particularly noteworthy. Wang Zhong, Director of the Digital Art and Blockchain Laboratory of the Art Development Center of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Pi Zhubing, Secretary-General of the Shenzhen Digital Creative Industry Association, Gao Yang, Founder of Shenzhen Wanzhong Yixin Cultural Creativity, He Qiru, an artist, and Fu Yushan of the Quantum School congratulated the curators and participating artists on the visual feast presented by the curators and participating artists in their speeches. At the site of the "Effective Acceleration 2140" digital technology art exhibition, the artist constantly invites people to enter the market to embrace the unknown potential, fearlessly enter the unknown territory, and open up a global perspective that foresees the future of mankind through highly attractive works.
Miao Xiaochun, Red, Yellow and Blue, 2023, resin, 3D printing, coloring, 150x50x150cm
Digitally generated and 3D printed sculptures present the viewer with a virtual, completely brain-computer generated world. In 2023, Miao Xiaochun created a series of new sculptures such as "Red, Yellow and Blue", which are digitally generated and 3D printed, continuing the thinking of the physicalization of digital images. He still uses 3D scanned documents and online motion materials to superimpose seemingly everyday or comical actions to form images and 3D printed sculptures. These works present Miao Xiaochun's analysis and ** of image, movement, motion, and motive. Through the representation of form in space through video, installation and sculpture, the artist derives his commitment to existence and authenticity. In fact, the charm of Miao Xiaochun's 3D printed sculptures lies precisely in the paradigm shift between different dimensions they show, and this is first and foremost due to Miao Xiaochun's eclectic mix of old and new cultures and the virtual and real worlds. Miao Xiaochun uses the past, present, and future to construct a synchronicity, thus providing new opportunities for the viewer to understand the history and future of the digital world.
Xia Hang, The Lobbyist, 2019, stainless steel, 90 x 100 x 220cm, edition 8
Xia Hang's "The Lobbyist" is full of restraint of industrial design and wildness of futuristic technology, and in the seemingly contradictory form, it can find the right amount of precision. Xia Hang is the first artist to create with the concept of "playing sculpture", his sculpture language has the latest trendy sense of futuristic science fiction and retro heavy industrial metal, bold but delicate, rigid and soft, the two textures are mixed and intertwined. Xia Hang accurately combines art and trend, and his technique is mastered, and his sculpture style is calm, sharp and enthusiastic. Xia Hang's works often use unique forms to bring a sense of science and technology at the junction of virtual and real to the urban space, and those artistic UFOs like visitors from outside the world show a grand and wonderful imagination. Xia Hang's large-scale sculptures can be found in many cities around the world, intervening in urban space and contemporary life in an artistic way. Xia Hang is a "subversive of the boundaries of traditional sculpture", and his sculptures are a precise combination of imagination and materials. He uses his imagination to deconstruct everyday things, and through design, dismantling and structuring, he re-integrates sculpture into contemporary life, making artistic imagination and curiosity a part of everyday life.
Yang Qian, Light of Life Series (Under Purple Light), 2023, mixed material on wood, dimensions variable, 90cm, 60cm, 40cm, 20cm in diameter
Yang Qian's fluorescent series of works are related to life and energy, time and speed. Inspired by cells in life science, he realized that the shape that best sums up the meaning of life is the circle. It presents a variety of equilibrium in form, and every point from its center to the boundary is equal and equal. This form has important hints in this batch of his works. In his works, chromatic light is not the traditional concept of color, but the light and color produced when exposed to violet light. It's as if they carry energy and color in themselves. The human eye can only see things between 380-780 nanometers of light waves, because Yang Qian uses a 365-nanometer purple spotlight, which activates the fluorescent material on the picture, so that the viewer can ** art in this environment. Due to the individual differences in people's retina, they will have different visual experiences under the irradiation of purple light, and he tries to make the audience have different feelings on the spiritual level, so as to achieve spiritual transcendence from **, contemplation to spirituality.
Larval Lab, Cypherpunk 4559, 2017-2019, on-chain generation, PFP
Cypherpunk is the only collectible PFP symbol with proof of ownership stored on the Ethereum blockchain and one of the first NFTs on Ethereum. In 2017, John Watkinson, co-founder of larva labs, created a "pixel character generator" that can be used to generate 10,000 24x24 pixel punk avatars with different details. Each pixel avatar is different, and most of the breeds are human, with 3,840 females and 6,039 males; There are also a small number of varieties that are aliens, zombies, and monkeys. At that time, only the ERC-20 standard for issuing FT fungible tokens was available on Ethereum. In order to make the ERC-20 standard a single and unique token representing each avatar, Matt Hall, co-founder of larva labs, modified and added to the smart protocol for the 10,000 avatars to make it as close to the ERC-20 standard as possible. In June 2017, larva labs named the project "cypherpunks" and posted it on Twitter, Reddit, etc., as a nod to the "cypherpunks" movement of the 1990s. All users online can claim these punk-inspired pfp pixel avatars for free. As a result, "Cypherpunk" became the first art collectible NFT project on Ethereum, in which more than 8,600 avatars were claimed. Since each Cypherpunk avatar token is unique, it cannot be exchanged on a 1:1 basis like ERC-20 tokens. Due to market demand, the ERC-721 protocol, which established the NFT standard, came into being after the release of Cypherpunk, and was developed by Dieter Shirley, a game developer for CryptoKitties, among others. As such, Cypherpunk was the inspiration for the ERC-721 standard**, which powers the majority of digital art and collectibles traded on-chain. After the launch of the Cypherpunk project, it was widely accepted and disseminated by Mashable, CNBC, Financial Times, Bloomberg, The Paris Review, Salon, The Outline, Christie's London, Art Basel, PBS Newstime, The New York Times (2018 and 2021), and others, greatly inspiring the modern crypto art movement. The project was initially launched as an experiment to see if it was technically and psychologically feasible to display and sell digital art on the blockchain. Some of the challenges the team faced included how to display artwork on the blockchain in a cost-effective manner, and how to fix a bug in the management of cryptopunks sales. Despite these challenges, the project has been a success and has paved the way for other projects in the field of immutable NFT tokens.
Taylor Hobbs, Fidenza 575, 2021, On-chain generative art.
The algorithmically generated art series Fidenza, released on the Art Blocks web platform, is Taylor Hobbs' most popular work to date. While it's less complex, the algorithm's core structure is very flexible, allowing for enough diversity to produce consistently surprising results. This is one of the most interesting ways to evaluate the quality of the generated algorithms, and certainly unique. Striking the right balance between unavoidability and quality is a daunting challenge for even the best artists in the field. The main basis of Fidenza is the flow field algorithm. Taylor Hobbs has been using flow field technology since 2016. It allows Taylor Hobbes to create organic curves that are incredible. These curves also have the aesthetic property of not overlapping, they are always parallel to adjacent curves without colliding. The structure of the flow field itself is changeable. It can be changed to light turbulence or extreme turbulence, short or long curves, or even curves along acute angles rather than curves with smooth flow. An important part of Fidenza is the shape drawn on the flow field. Instead of elongated curves, it uses thick arc-shaped rectangles. Importantly, the algorithm checks to make sure that the rectangles don't collide and overlap. In this way, there is a good spacing between the elements. Fidenza uses a probabilistic palette. The colors are all hand-picked and go well together. Each color in the palette has a probability.
Zhang Lizhen + Mechanical Starlink, 2020, mirror stainless steel, aluminum alloy, programmable LED, motor, 500 x 290 x 320 cm
Zhang Lizhen's + mechanical starlink installation work "Set Sail" creates a Musk starship-style space rocket thruster shape. The entire installation contains a powerful iron will of humanity to resist the increase in entropy and aspire to become an interplanetary species. However, when the light emitted from the bottom of the rocket engine model shifts as the blades of the motor fan rotate, the whole work is like a kaleidoscope in the cyber world, exuding endless poetry and tenderness. "Set Sail" seems to create a halo of human ultimate value goals at the exhibition site. Today's digital native generation is still interested in the sea of stars and pursues a global universe survival model that blends the virtual and the real. When the tail fan blades of the device rotate to simulate the tail flame spray form, the classic immersive scene suggests a kind of fast-moving galaxy background, bringing a strong visual appeal.
It is reported that the exhibition period of "Effective Acceleration 2140" Digital Technology Art Exhibition will be open from January 31, 2024 to March 17, 2024 (closed every Monday during the exhibition period, and closed from February 8 to 16, 2024 during the Spring Festival holiday).
Exhibition Foreword: "Effective Acceleration".
Wen curator: Gu Zhenqing.
Silicon-based technology accelerates the evolution of modern society, pointing to the future lifestyle of human beings and the possibility of long-term survival of human civilization. Artificial intelligence, robotics and web3The scientific and technological singularity that will inevitably be brought about by the exponential development of 0 technology is changing human society and the biosphere system. Effectively accelerating technological innovation is an ethical and legitimate behavior for the development of human civilization. Only by accelerating progress can humanity ensure its survival in the entire entropy universe. Effectively accelerated technological rationality is bridging the blurred lines between the physical and digital realms, bringing modern society into an awe-inspiring new era of virtual and real coexistence, and the integration of carbon and silicon. Artists, scientists, and engineers focusing on digital technology continue to challenge the boundaries of creativity and invention, refresh the knowledge production system, and iterate the structure of human cognition. With extraordinary perception and imagination, they predicted a cognitive revolution that would come to the singularity, reflecting the tremendous impact of emerging technologies on human life and society as a whole. From virtual landscapes to interactive installations, from augmented reality experiences to generative art, the artist's work not only witnesses the convergence of art and technology, but also embodies the synergy between the transformative power of human imagination and machines, and shows the infinite energy released by human beings at various super nodes at the intersection of artistic creation and technological innovation.
Human curiosity and exploration spirit are manifested in an endless pursuit of their own development and progress. The effectively accelerated technological power has launched a transcendent odyssey journey in theoretical speculation, philosophical exploration and cutting-edge technological innovation, revealing an immersive, virtual and real integration of Web30 Metaverse. The complex structure of algorithms weaves the intricate harmony and balance of generative aesthetics, while augmented reality and extended reality challenge the ontological framework of the physical world. In the multi-dimensional experience of time and space that integrates the virtual and the real, the artist's expression and the update and iteration of science and technology stimulate and learn from each other, breaking the traditional understanding of the known and unknown realms, and allowing more people to be involved in thought experiments with a sense of the scene again and again, so as to overcome cognitive conflicts and psychological gaps, and perceive the essence of the existence of people and the world. In the works of the art scene, the artist tries to unleash the full potential of technological miracles, so that every visible and invisible information and energy resonates and resonates in the transmission and exchange of live art. Human cognitive structure, philosophical habits, aesthetic mechanisms and the on-site input of various information collide and entangle each other, which is giving countless halos of meaning to the development process of human civilization.
Introduction to the Science Fiction Script of the Exhibition:
Text: The Quantum School.
Technological innovation has been effectively accelerated, so that the evolution of carbon-based life and silicon-based life has been accelerated. Technological rationality has led carbon-based life to ask: 116 years later, does space-time in 2140 still follow classical mechanics, with gravity (f) not expanding with time and light deflecting with time? Is Newtonian mechanics still the cornerstone of civilization? Entropy increase In the universe, is human beings still in a process of entropy reduction, but inevitably creating entropy increase? Is social progress an integral process, or is it a completely utilitarian H2 quantization?
When some people began to doubt that f=m(dv dt) everything is controllable, and no longer thought that Maxwell's electromagnetic transformation =b·s·cos was a matter of course, and began to have self-doubt about originality in science, the imagination of artists focusing on digital technology was not only not bent by social attraction, but their originality was promoted more vigorously by the scientific engine. They forge ahead bravely in theory and practice, rushing left and right again and again in reality and idealism, and sowing the seeds of art, aesthetics and technology in the cracks of time. The illuminated art museum is always asking questions, and the sleepless artists are always answering.
In the year 2140, the peak of human computing power. "2140" has created a parallel time and space, where human beings can use computing power as a connection to create another self, build a new ecology in the future, sketch with imagination, and pioneer a science fiction world. When human beings stand at the door of the leap to digital civilization, the metaverse has become the greatest common divisor of 7 billion people crowded on the blue star of the earth, and "2140" joins hands to "effectively accelerate", which is not only the combination of science fiction and art, but also the unity of imagination and beauty, reality and the future, intertwined here and now, to create a wonderful dream of digital technology and art.