Memory Passage
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Overview
2019
Tft display, acrylic painting on plexiglass, ccd camera, teakwood frame
Unique Work
Dimensions: 52.0cm(H) x 52.0cm(W) x 5.5cm(D) / 20.5"(H) x 20.5"(W) x 2.2"(D)
Note: Actual colours may vary due to photography & computer settings.
Artist Statement
What will techies of the future watch online? It may sound like a ridiculous question, but there are 1.2 million data-creating users per day worldwide. Will scholars refer back to classic Youtube or Youku Tudou videos the same way film critics and scholars do in their inflated publications? I wonder if in a few generations, instead of trawling libraries and public records, those trying to connect with their genetic heritage will watch hours upon hours of archived amateur video footage hoping to catch a glimpse of their great-grandma giving cultural commentary about the economic rise of China or hosting a beginner Guzheng tutorial. Maybe instead we’ll keep creating content, and fully realize the postmodernist vision of continual critique, revision, and newness. This isn’t unlike images created by Barbara Kruger, overlaid with text to tell us something damning about the artist, the audience, and the environment in which they were forced to interact. Kruger had the right idea, I think—don’t let the end of the sentence be the end of the discussion: keep creating.
EDITION: Unique
DATE: Made in island6, Shanghai 2019
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Artist Profile
Born: 2006
Hometown: Shanghai
Based in: Shanghai
island6 六岛 (Liu Dao) is a Shanghai-based collective of tech-geeks and creative talents whose driving force is collaboration. Since its inception in 2006, this dynamic international group has produced multimedia art that muses on the relationship between the delicate qualities of traditional art and the technical complexities of the contemporary. Artists from diverse disciplines converge to contemplate the past, present, and future of China through their humorous and innovative new media work. Their unique collaborative philosophy explores the cultural potential of the convergence of art, technology, and science in their quest to promote cross-cultural dialogue. Liu Dao's ever expanding repertoire includes works in diverse mediums such as LED art, video art, interactive art, neon, photography, painting, sculpture, and dynamic laser art, among others.
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