Pixel Extension - Zi-Yin Chen Solo Exhibition
Date｜2022/7/23 (Sat.) -2022/8/28 (Sun.)
Opening & Forum ｜2022/8/6 (Sat.) 15:00
Guest｜Bo-Cheng Shen
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| Pixel Extension |
The imaginary scenes and plots in sci-fi movies can either be based on scientific concepts or pure fantasy. Both stimulate the brain and mind of their audience with images of the future. It is even more fanciful to witness these scenes taking place in the real world as technology changes every detail of life. Looking back to the development of information technology, in a matter of less than two decades we have stopped flipping through dictionaries and printed maps as these have been replaced with screens consisting of pixels. Today, we now understand the world through the internet.
The exhibition Pixel Extension is a perceptual loop made of three artworks. Through the image perceptions of AI, I try to reason out the reciprocal interplay between subjective sensory preference and the AI technology in our everyday life.
The concept of the first art piece “Removal of the Moon” originates from the AI theme panel feature in a smartphone. The AI seems to be capable of detecting my preference and provided me with a set of moonlit night sceneries. I tried to cover the moon in one of the pictures and fed it back to the AI system. To my surprise, the system was still capable of categorizing the retouched image into the same moonlit night theme. As I stared in awe, I found the retouched image to be less appealing than the original picture. Therefore, in this art piece, I hollowed the moon in the original picture and put a black sphere behind the emptied hollow to block the white wall behind, creating a crescent crevice in between. In doing so, I have explored the root of my preference and the AI perceptions in my imagination.
After I “removed” the moon, in my second piece “How to Elevate the Quality of a Picture Through the Use of AI– A Tutorial on Noise Reduction and Super Resolution,” I simulated a self-media style of tutorial video on image editing by using the “Pale Blue Dot” photoed by Voyager 1 space probe as a demonstration for upgrading photo quality through adopting the new noise reduction and super resolution technologies. The AI system detected the earth as a noise, and “removed” the earth just like I emptied the moon to create the crescent crevice. As the earth was removed, a new set of pixels were detected. Under its algorithmic principle, the result has fallen within my expectation. To a certain extent, it also feels like the AI system’s triumphant hurrah for precisely nailing my preference.
The third piece “The Extended Footsteps” is a customized four-storeyed aluminum stairway installed at the farest end of the gallery. The stairs go from 30 cm to a leap above human height to symbolize the accelerating development of human civilization. Since I am only capable of linear thinking, it is impalpable for me to imagine anything further than the aluminum stairway. All I can do is to look up to the unknown and wait patiently for the wheel of time to turn in acceleration as we live in a technological normality.
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【About Zi-Yin Chen】
1995 born in Taipei, Taiwan
｜EDUCATION｜
2017- M.F.A Department of New Media Arts,Taipei National University of the Arts
｜AWARDS｜
2020 Next Art Tainan 2018 NANYING Awards, First prize 2018 Taiwan Emerging Art Awards, Selected 2018 Yilan Awards, Selected 2017 SANCF Award 2017 Taiwan Emerging Art Awards, Selected 2017 Yilan Awards, Selected
｜EXHIBITIONS｜
2022 Pixel Extension - Chen Ziyin Solo Exhibition, Absolute Space for the Arts, Tainan,Taiwan
2022 FLAME VIDEO ART FAIR,Hotel COZZI, Taipei, Taiwan
2022 SYNERGY FESTIVAL，Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Taipei, Taiwan
2021 The Tangent Line To Cognition – Dual Exhibition of Chen Zi Yin & Ko Ta-Sheng, Taipei, Taiwan
2020 New Normal, Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan
2020 Art Formosa, eslite hotel, Taipei, Taiwan
2020 Next Art Tainan: Uneven Parallel, Absolute Space for the Arts, Tainan,Taiwan
2019 Uncertain Sculptures, Bopiliao Historic Block, Taipei, Taiwan
2019 Heavenly Body Movement, Just Romantic, Taipei, Taiwan
2018 NANYING Awards, Xinying Cultural Center, Tainan, Taiwan
2018 Siri, What is new media art : joint Exhibition, TNUA, Taipei, Taiwan
2018 Taiwan Emerging Art Awards, Taichung City Seaport Art Center, Taiwan
2018 Yilan Awards, Yi-Lan County Government, Yilan, Taiwan
2017 Gazing Into the wilderness joint Exhibition, Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall
2017 Mountain movement joint Exhibition, Huaboo, Taipei, Taiwan
2016 La pensee en Archipel joint Exhibition, Palais Jacques Coeur, France
2016 On Site Visual Treasure Hill joint Exhibition, Taipei Artist Village, Taiwan