Light as clouds heavy as raindrops 轻若浮云重如雨滴
Sandglass, 2022
AI generated Photography
Size changeable
沙漏, 2022
AI生成影像
可变尺寸
The Sandglass series is an extension of my Mountain series which mainly explores the ontology of AI generated images. Based on this, Sandglass add the element of time and the changes of subjects. In a sense, the Mountain series is static, while the Sandglass series is dynamic. I hope to give the audience an extraordinary perspective through the juxtaposition of images in time, to reflect on the impact of AI images on the temporality of photography.
Sandglass系列是我 Mountain系列的延伸之作。Mountain系列主要探讨了在AI影像中什么是图像本体的问题，Sandglass依此为基础，加入了时间与主体的变化，在不同方向上对图像本体的问题进行探索。某种意义上，Mountain系列是静态的，而Sandglass系列是动态的，我希望通过图像在时间意义上的并置给观众一个超常规的视角，来反思AI影像给摄影的时间性带来的冲击。
The AI used in the Mountain and Sandglass series is "semi-automatic". I need to set the basic structure of the image first, and then let the AI visualize it. Although the image is ultimately generated by AI, the ontology of the image was decided by me at the beginning. The playfulness and uncertainty of this process lie in how the AI understands my settings, which are not always logical. Also, it is about how I view and use these images as an arbiter.
Mountain与Sandglass系列使用的AI是“半自动的”，我需要先设定图像的基本结构，随后让AI对其具像化。虽然图像最终由AI生成，但图像的本体在一开始就由我决定了。此过程的游戏性与不确定性一是在于AI如何理解我的设定，而我的设定并非全合逻辑；二是在于我作为一个裁决者如何看待并使用这些图像。
On the one hand, AI images have surpassed the scope of tools and become producers of content, because they need to make judgments on settings; on the other hand, AI still retains a certain tool nature, because its jurisdiction is not sufficient, and eventually to be a component of a larger structure. But through the process, AI has already possessed the attributes of a medium, carrying and becoming the information itself.
就一而言，AI影像已经超越了工具的范畴，成为了内容的生产者，因其需要对设定做出判断；就二而言，AI仍旧保留了一定的工具性质，因其裁判权并不充分，并且最终只是更大思维结构的组成部分。但无论如何，在此过程中，AI已经具备了媒介的属性，承载并成为了信息本身。
The AI that I experimented with only operates on the level of simulated images. They are harmless spectacles, reproductions of natural images, reimaginations of natural wonders, reproductions of image commodities, simplifications of complex worlds, and fixations of random worlds. AI can better represent nature as it exists in the human mind, but the depth of nature lies beyond the reach of the mind.
Sandglass, 2023
Installation at Exhibition In Tandem, London
3.5m x 2m x 3.5m
我所实验的AI只是拟真图像层面上的，它们是无害的奇观，是对自然图像的再图像、是对自然奇观的再奇观化、是图像消费品的再生产、是对复杂世界的简化与对随机世界的固定。AI能更好地表现人头脑中的自然，但自然的深邃远在头脑之外
Sandglass, 2022
Installation at Exhibition Dwelling on the cloud, Ugly Duck, London
4.8m x 2.8m x 5m