Blockchain Generation Art Exhibition [Taipei Generation Site: Islands Hash 2023] Impressions (Push!) — Block D World

Because I don’t know much about art, so for me to experience the “Generative Art” exhibition “on-site” this time, follow the guide’s explanation with the “entity” of the body, and carefully feel the visible and invisible meaning of each work , is a very rare learning process.

First of all, what is the "scene" of digital works?

When a piece of blockchain-generated art is generated line by line by the artist's carefully crafted code on the computer, where should the "scene" where this work takes place be defined?

Holding this doubt, I was cleared in the first minute of the tour (at least I thought it was)!

Co-creation of visitors and artists

It's certainly an understatement to say co-creation, but I do feel the thrill of being included in the creative process of a work.

At the "Certificate of Attendance Exhibition Area" at the beginning of the tour, the on-site staff first took everyone to open the mobile phone to register the Kukai wallet, and then everyone used the QRCode of their own wallet address to interact with the artist Lin Yiwen's work "Sequencing", and immediately Get a generative art created by an artist through the Fibonacci sequence as a free NFT proof of attendance.

Since this work will be generated according to each person's wallet address as a parameter, each person's work is a unique generated work. Visitors can watch the process of their own work being generated on the spot, and in the wallet Receive this NFT airdrop as a proof of attendance.

Feel the atmosphere created by the curator, interact with the mechanism of the artist, input a part of me, experience the process of generating the work with the senses in real time, and then save the whole process as an experience and the work together. For me, this is what "live" means.

Secondly, virtual and real close

In the process of appreciating the exhibition, with the in-depth explanation of the tour guide, I began to feel that the boundaries between "digital generative art" and "physical handcrafted art" are gradually becoming more and more similar on some levels. Generative art plus blockchain increasingly has the characteristics of physical art collections.

Even though they are identical, they are still unique

In the era before computers, an artist must maintain certain consistent styles or elements in his same series of works, so each independent work will be classified into the same series. Even if the artist tries to paint exactly the same works, the characteristics of the physical world make each of his paintings unique.

After the computer age, the biggest pain point of digital art works is that they are easy to copy, so it is almost impossible to have the concept of "collection" like physical works. But the emergence of blockchain and NFT technology has solved this matter. Now artists can mint their works into limited NFTs. When collectors obtain works of art (whether in the form of images, sounds or videos), they also obtain a unique token (Token) on the chain to prove ownership of genuine works .

Manual mass production vs machine mass customization

No, the title text is not misplaced.

When artificial matching machines (such as textile machines) advance to the point where five or ten identical works can be manually produced at one time, is it still considered hand-made? Or mass production by hand?

When the machine can generate a large number of works each time, by generating the code created by the artist to design the random movement of each stroke, to pave the way for texture, to create differences, so that each work can be done according to the current environment or parameters Interaction, even when it can interact with collectors to produce unique works, is it still mass-produced by machine? Or is it machine-made?

At least for me, the line between "customization" and "unpredictability" seems to be getting blurred.

physical digitization, digital materialization

One of the designs I like very much in the exhibition is that the curator unit invited artists Lin Yiwen and Liu Naiting to present the works designed by Miao embroidery collected by Fengjia Art Museum in a generative art way.

Compared with "Xiang embroidery" which is famous for its paintings of flowers, birds and figures, "Miao embroidery" is famous for its abstract totem decorations. A set of generative art in the form of totem patterns was specially displayed on the curatorial site, together with the generative code for comparison with this work. This kind of interactive presentation using Miao embroidery (physical embroidery) and generative art (digital generation) is very interesting, so I can't help but imagine the Miao embroidery-like generative art solid blanket ( want to collect it! ), or the generated artistic Miao embroidery digital work.

In addition to the works mentioned above, there are many well-known artists and themed exhibitions in the exhibition. It is strongly recommended that you must go to the scene to interact and feel, and you must listen to the guided tour. I believe you will have a new understanding of generative art.

【Taipei Generation Site: Islands Hash 2023】Exhibition information:

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Official website: https://www.volumedao.xyz/
Dates: 4/22 - 5/21
Time: 10:30-17:30 (Closed on Mondays)
Venue: Fengjia Art Museum Address: 11F, No. 166, Daye Road, Beitou District, Taipei City (5 minutes walk from MRT Qiyan Station)

On the surface, scattered islands are connected to each other by the sea, just like on the blockchain, multi-center hosts form a large network due to information. If the waves draw a waterway, and the boats go back and forth, and the islanders use it to get what they need, then the code is used as the waterway in the ocean of information, and the tokens produced by the hashing program are used as the boats, and information actors communicate with each other.

In a corner of this information seascape, Zhongshengdao planned "Taipei's Generation Live: Islands Hash 2023". The exhibited works are all written in code and published on the blockchain through algorithms, focusing on specific themes or concepts; The museum exhibited "works on the whole chain" and set a precedent.

The exhibition is divided into four categories. First, there are works by Canadian artist Matt Delorier, Taiwanese artist Wang Xinren, and Brunei artist Aceh Asahari. The process from data input to output is carried out on site, and the long and short formats are displayed side by side. Secondly, focusing on the common "recursion" of generative art, fourteen artists from all over the world, such as the famous Jacek Markusić (Poland) and Aleksandr Jovanic (Serbia) , showing the process of chance and difference produced under the same mechanism respectively. Third, compare the rare Miao embroidery in the Fengjia Museum with digitally coded works, and draw the works of artist Dan Carter with a real-time plotter to explore the translation between materials and brushstrokes. Finally, the audience can adjust the parameters in real time and get the works of artists Lin Yiwen and Huang Xin as proof of attendance. Wang Xinren and akaSwap jointly launched an artificial intelligence generation system for the audience to experience.

Host｜Volume DAO
Co-organizer｜Fengjia Art Museum, c2x3, akaSwap, fxhash, Sandwich Works, Sound Waterfall Aopu Sound Art Lab, Open-Contemporary Art Workstation, Dynamic Trend Media Collaboration｜Collection of ARTouch, Digital Age, FAB DAO, GQ
Exhibition Team｜Qualified Art Sponsor｜National Culture and Arts Foundation

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