“永恒的生命”
"Eternal Life"
2024.11.06-12.29
10:00-21:00
周二闭馆 (closed on Tuesdays)
南志阁艺术中心
Nanzuka Art Institute
上海市浦东新区杨高南路99弄1号
No. 1, Lane 99, South Yanggao rd, Pudong New District, Shanghai, China
aaajiao作品参加南志阁艺术中心开馆展“永恒的生命”。在本次群展中，17位(组)艺术家通过绘画、雕塑、影像、装置以及AI等多元媒介的作品，探讨人类想象力的起源，并从艺术的角度考察审视由此产生的各种副产物。展览已于11月6日开幕，将持续至12月29日。
此次展出的aaajiao作品《咒文》是艺术家以生成AI构成了一段视频，视频中动画形象念出生成它的文本。标题《咒文》，即是中文互联网上对目前“生成式AI”中“文本-prompt”的昵称。在人工智能情感充沛的唇⻮之间，迫使观众重新思忖技术之于人的边界。
aaajiao，《咒文》，2023，视频，01'39"，尺寸可变
aaajiao, Prompt, 2023, video, 01'39", dimension variable
“永恒的生命”，展览现场，南志阁艺术中心，上海，中国，2024
"Eternal Life", installation view, Nanzuka Art Institute, Shanghai, China, 2024
The work of aaajiao is featured in the inaugural exhibition "Eternal Life" at the Nanzuka Art Institute. In this group exhibition, 17 artists (or artist groups) explore the origins of human imagination through a diverse array of mediums, including painting, sculpture, video, installation, and AI. They examine the various byproducts that emerge from this exploration from an artistic perspective. The exhibition opened on November 6 and will continue until December 29.
The exhibited work by aaajiao titled Prompt consists of a video generated by using AI. The animated character reads the keywords which creates it. The title Prompt is the nickname for the "keyword-prompt" in Generative AI on the Chinese Internet currently. Between the emotionally speaking of AI, the audience is forced to rethink the boundaries of technology in relation to people.
文字与图片由南志阁艺术中心惠允。
Texts and images courtesy of the Nanzuka Art Institute.
关于南志阁艺术中心
南志阁艺术中心位于上海市浦东新区今年九月亮相的花木时光里，品牌LOGO由世界著名艺术家空山基创作，展馆面积约1300平方米，设有九个展厅。这里将展出涵盖绘画、雕塑、影像和装置等多种形式的作品，打造艺术文化体验和时尚创意的复合性空间，通过跨界多维度的合作方式，探索时尚、设计、创意、商业与艺术的无限可能，为广大观众提供国际性和多样化的非凡艺术体验。
The Nanzuka Art Institute is located in the Huamu Time Square of the Pudong New District in Shanghai and made its debut this September. The brand logo was designed by the world-renowned artist Kōyama Katsu. The exhibition space covers approximately 1,300 square meters and features nine exhibition halls. This venue will showcase works in various forms, including painting, sculpture, video, and installation, creating a multifaceted space for artistic and cultural experiences along with fashion and creativity. Through cross-disciplinary collaborations, it aims to explore the infinite possibilities of fashion, design, creativity, commerce, and art, providing a remarkable international and diverse artistic experience for the broad audience.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
1984年出生于西安。现生活工作于上海和柏林。
aaajiao，是年轻艺术家徐文恺的化名，也是他虚构的网络分身。1984年（他的出生年份恰好是乔治·奥威尔经典预言式小说的名称），出生于中国最古老城市之一的西安，aaajiao的创作结合了浓重的反乌托邦意识、对文人精神的反思。他的很多作品都致力于探索新的科技和媒体影响之下的文化现象和政治策略，从社交媒体写作、数据处理，到网络和移动媒介下的新美学景观。作为今天全球新一代媒体艺术的代表人物，aaajiao将今天中国特殊的社交媒体文化、科技运用带入了国际艺术的话语和讨论。
aaajiao的作品频繁展出于全球的美术馆和艺术机构，例如：“永恒的生命”，南志阁艺术中心，上海，中国，2024；“目：中国境象”，巴黎蓬皮杜艺术中心，巴黎，法国，2024；“繁衍生息：中国当代艺术中的复刻与倍增”，艺仓美术馆，上海，中国，2024；“致不灭的你”，今日美术馆，北京，中国，2023；“时间引力—— 2023成都双年展”，成都市美术馆，成都，中国，2023；“真实的拓扑：媒体艺术（深圳2023）”，深圳市当代艺术与城市规划馆，深圳，中国，2023；“流光”，四方当代美术馆，南京，中国，2023；“昊美术馆5周年馆藏展：你和我，保持凝视”，昊美术馆，上海，中国，2023；“第七届广州三年展-化作通变”，广东美术馆，广州，中国，2023；“道法柏林，而游于外”，KINDL，柏林，德国，2022；“Cloud Walkers”，Leeum Museum of Art，首尔，韩国，2022；“档案冲动：反叙事和反记忆的操练”，AIKE，上海，中国，2022；“深渊模拟器”，里沃利城堡当代艺术博物馆，都灵，意大利，2020；“1989年到今天：网络时代的艺术”，波士顿当代艺术中心，波士顿，美国，2018；“非真实”，电子艺术之家，巴塞尔，瑞士，2017；“身体·媒体II”，上海当代艺术博物馆，上海，中国，2017；“带走我（我是你的）”，犹太人美术馆，纽约，美国，2016；“时间转向：当代亚洲的艺术与思辨”，斯班塞美术馆，堪萨斯，美国，2016；“波普之上”，余德耀美术馆，上海，中国，2016；“黑客空间”（由Hans Ulrich Obrist与Amira Gad策展），K11艺术基金会临时空间，香港，中国、chi K11美术馆，上海，中国，2016；“全方位：全控制和言论控制”，ZKM卡尔斯鲁厄艺术与媒体中心，卡尔斯鲁厄，德国，2015；“齐物等观——2014国际新媒体艺术三年展”，中国国家美术馆，北京，中国，2014。
他近期个展包括“炼丹与咒文”，SETAREH，柏林，德国，2024；“aaajiao：薄膜”，星美术馆，上海，中国，2023；“我死于互联网”，Wannsee Contemporary，柏林，德国；“我死于互联网”，铜仁路联华公寓，上海，中国，2021；“深渊模拟器”，Tabula Rasa画廊，伦敦，英国，2021；“深渊模拟器”，里沃利城堡当代艺术博物馆，都灵，意大利，2020；“洞穴模拟器”，AIKE，上海，中国，2020；“a’a’a’jiao: 一个ID”，昊美术馆，上海，中国，2019；“观察者”，House of Egorn，柏林，德国，2018；“暴食”，千高原艺术空间，成都，中国，2018；“用户、爱、高频交易”，Leo Xu Projects，上海，中国，2017；“电子遗留物”，华人艺术中心，曼彻斯特，英国，2016；“电子遗留物”，OCAT，西安，中国，2016。
2023年aaajiao的作品被法国蓬皮杜中心收藏。aaajiao于2014年获得了第三届三亚艺术季暨华宇青年评审大奖，亦入围首届OCAT皮埃尔·于贝尔奖。
aaajiao was born in 1984 in Xi’an. Currently lives and works in Shanghai and Berlin.
Active online as a media artist, blogger, activist and programmer, aaajiao is the virtual persona of Shanghai- and Berlin- artist Xu Wenkai. Born in 1984—the title of George Orwell’s classic allegorical novel—and in one of China’s oldest cities, Xi’an, aaajiao’s art and works are marked by a strong dystopian awareness, literati spirits and sophistication. Many of aaajiao’s works speak to new thinkings, controversies and phenomenon around the Internet, with specific projects focusing on the processing of data, the blogsphere and China’s Great Fire Wall. aaajiao’s recent projects extend his practice to various disciplines (among them, architecture, topography, and design) to capture the pulse of the young generation consuming cyber technology and living in social media.
aaajiao’s work has been featured in numerous exhibitions around the world, upcoming and recent shows include "Eternal Life", Nanzuka Art Institute, Shanghai, China, 2024; "目China: A New Generation of Artists", Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, 2024; "Multiply: Power in Numbers in Contemporary Chinese Art", Modern Art Museum Shanghai, Shanghai, China, 2024; “To Your Eternity”, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China, 2023; “Topologies of The Real Techne (Shenzhen 2023)”, Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning, Shenzhen, China, 2023; “Time Gravity - 2023 Chengdu Biennale”, Chengdu Art Museum, Chengdu, China, 2023; “HOW Art Museum 5th Anniversary Collection Exhibition: “Projection”, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China, 2023; “You as Me, Hold the Gaze”, HOW Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2023; “The 7th Guangzhou Triennial - symphony of all the changes”, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China, 2023; “Cloud Walkers”, Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea, 2022; “Forming Communities: Berliner”, KINDL, Berlin, Germany, 2022; “The Archival Impulse: An Exercise in Counter-Narrative and Counter-Memory”, AIKE, Shanghai, China, 2022; “Deep Simulator”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy, 2021; “Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today”, The Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston, USA, 2018; “unREAL”, Haus der elektronischen Künste, Basel, Switzerland, 2017; “Shanghai Project Part II”, Shanghai, China, 2017; “Temporal Turn: Art and Speculation in Contemporary Asia”, Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas, USA, 2016; “Take Me (I’m Yours)” (curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jens Hoffmann and Kelly Taxter), Jewish Museum, New York, USA, 2016; “Overpop”, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China, 2016; “Hack Space” (curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Amira Gad), K11 Art Foundation Pop-up Space, Hong Kong and chi K11 art museum, Shanghai, China, 2016; “Globale: Global Control and Censorship”, ZKM | Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2015; and “Thingworld International Triennial of New Media Art”, The National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China, 2014.
His recent solo exhibition includes “A bit A prompt”, SETAREH, Berlin, Germany, 2024; “aaajiao: membrane”, Start Museum, Shanghai, China, 2023; “I was dead on the Internet”, Wannsee Contemporary, Berlin, Germany, 2022; “I was dead on the Internet”, Lianhua Apartment, Shanghai, China, 2021; “Deep Simulator”, Tabula Rasa Gallery, London, UK, 2021; “Deep Simulator”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy, 2020; “Cave Simulator”, AIKE, Shanghai, China, 2020; “a’a’a’jiao: an ID”, HOW Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2019; “bot,” House of Egorn, Berlin, German, 2018; “Gluttony”, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu, China, 2018; “User, Love, High-frequency Trading”, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China, 2017; “Remnants of an Electronic Past”, CFCCA, Manchester, UK, 2016; “Remnants of an Electronic Past”, OCAT, Xi’an, China, 2016.
In 2023, aaajiao’s work was collected by the Pompidou Center in France. aaajiao was awarded the Art Sanya Awards in 2014 Jury Prize and was nominated for the first edition of OCAT-Pierre Huber Art Prize in 2014.
