CHARLIE YIP  

 

Projects Review

Alien Life In The Telescope, Live Performance for AE2020, Garden Hong Kong

We scrutinised the growth of the alien creatures with a telescope. Their lives became an entertaining performance, which echoes with the theme “A City In Fusion” of AE2020 Garden Hong Kong. The aliens’ lives is an allegory of Hong Kong citizens under surveillance, putting our daily activities as a performing art practice. The aliens keep evolving their shape and perhaps can eventually amuse the one behind the screen. The aliens make no sound, not an utterer. 

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DïloG: The First Alien’s Encounter, interactive media art installation,

for the exhibition Constructing Contexts, June 10-20, 2021

Interactive tools, like Kinect depth camera to capture audience’s movement and Muse EEG headset to receive brainwave data, with the technology of real-time processing stimulation, for example, Unreal Engine with AI machine learning, have given an artwork a body, through which the artworks are able to have a sensory experience, awareness of the environment and make responses. The intention of the artist or the author may seemingly be invisible when the audience’s attention is drawn to their interaction with the artwork and the artwork’s responses. 

Gerhard Richter once said, “We only find paintings interesting because we always search for something that looks familiar to us”. In Media art, the public is not only in search of visual but also behavioural familiarity. New media may change the existing cultural languages we have long been used to but, still, may also inherit the traits of the existing cultural languages, so does the aesthetics of new media art. 

 

We may find the objects that“look” familiar to us as in the realistic paintings of Leonardo da Vinci or the statue La Pieta by Michelangelo on which they projected human’s perception. We see them in our memories, the reminiscence of our past events. 

In media art, we see behaviours of the artist, artwork and audience. The intentions of the artist and audience allow the artwork to have intentions, perhaps this is what the artist (Benayoun, M.) called artificial intentionality.

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