Are we gazing at the same moon?
“As the bright moon rises above the sea, we share this moment from different corners of the world” — Are we truly seeing the same moon? Are the scenes we observe really within the same time and space?
This artwork creates a ritual of moon-gazing, presenting to the audience a gigantic image of the moon composed of multiple stitched-together fragments. As the camera gradually zooms out from these regions, the scenes outside each fragment are slowly revealed: they do not belong to a continuous whole. As the moon disintegrates from a unified whole and then slowly reassembles, the boundaries between individual emotions and collective memory become blurred and begin to flow.
2024
2024 3rd Annual Metaverse Art @Venice, Italy
2024 Tank Art Festival, Shanghai
In astronomical photography, the “Lunar Mosaic” is often used to synthesize high-definition images of the moon. This work is an artistic experiment based on the moon image by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft in 1992.
However, it employs generative AI technology to allow artificial intelligence to imagine the parts of the celestial body beyond the fragments, revealing the dislocation and discontinuity behind the vast whole. By showcasing the parallel existences and possibilities of the moon, it forms a surreal and fantastical picture.
“Are We Gazing at the Same Moon?” at Tank Art Festival
3 new projects/AI experiments showing at Tank Art Festival in Shanghai, 9.15-9.17
1. Tears of the Sky – my collaboration with Xi Wang about the eternity of the moment before the catastrophe destroy us.
2. Are we gazing at the same moon? – a project that argues the collective memories and the continuity of the moon.
3. Transient – how short can one moment be and how intrusive thoughts affect our perception?