
2022
Streaming Stillness 虚极静笃
This work was obtained by two steps: Firstly, two-layered deep machine learning and AI technology were used to formulate several sets of virtual, dynamic 3D graphs based on plenty of China’s terrain data. Next, 10,000 Chinese ink-and-wash paintings were learned and trained on the surface of the virtual domain through AI technology.
Referring to the concept of Tribute to Yu, the earliest geological imagination and thinking in China, it reshapes the terrain of China through AI-drawn maps, aiming to create a new geological origin for the Chinese civilization in the new era.
The domain swarming with uncertainties yet appearing sensually real is actually generated by virtual means. It comes from the real world yet doesn’t exist in it. Instead, it’s a natural prototype existing beyond human experience and reaches transcendence. In this work, virtuality is no longer aimless but shakes reality for its approximation to reality. Thus it provides possibilities for revealing the invisible reality. Or it can be called knowing the reality yet sticking to its virtuality.










Credits
Artwork by Jiayu Liu
Artist Assistant:
Haobo Huang
Technical Director:
Louis Mustill
Content Design Director:
William Young
Content Technical Director
Xin Fang
Motion Graphic Design:
Tiankun Yu
Houdini Technician:
Zhaoxue Xiang
VFX:
Jiakun Sun
Machine Learning Technician:
Qihui Wang
Machine Learning R&D:
Aijia Wang, Ashiely Zhang
Surface Redesign:
Xiangyu Wang
Sculpture Redesign:
Bochen Zhang
Fabrication Director:
Junxia Zhang
Prototype Fabrication:
Nian Xiao, Weizhen Bai
Sculpture Fabrication:
Zhenfeng Ding, Jiajun Ding
Projection Director:
Junwei Yuan
Mapping Technician:
Chao Yuan
Film:
Mark Winterlin
Edit:
Matthew Watt
Project manager:
Tingting Wu
Special thanks
Qingxue Liu, Shujuan Ma, Chao Lu