portfolio kunhao shen 2024

chthonic cloud infrastructure

Self-position

A nomadic group who was forced to migrate from rural to urban areas under the influence of China's accelerationism, a sense of social barriers and contradictions in the context of the infringement of man-made objects and man-made concepts on living habits.

The Theme of My Portfolio

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Humans are atomized, objects are imitated

Carbon chauvinism

Social distance between humans and man-made objects

Gilles Deleuze’s

Postscript on the Societies of Control

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the arrival of legions of nonhuman users. (sensors, cars, robots)

bio-augmentation

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The Exegesis of Human Behavior on Nature Translate

The blurred boundary between nature and artificiality

The objectivity of AI and the objectivity of stance

Role swapping between the two parties in the context of technology application

Humanity’s Self-Search for the Truth

Technological development and mutual domestication among users

Whispers of Estrangement

Size: 2.1m x 2.2m x 2.7m

Material: stainless steel, horizontal gyroscope, 3D printed resin robot arm, acrylic, aluminum alloy, circuit board, textile

Time: 2023

An interactive installation that delves into the concepts presented in Benjamin Bratton's " The Black Stack."

This work examines the notion that AI neither hates nor loves us but perceives humans as resources for other purposes. As the sole creator, I was responsible for concept generation, physical installation, technical implementation, and interaction design.

The installation utilizes Arduino code and 3D modeling to create a tangible experience of the social awkwardness between humans and artif icial constructs. This project serves as a vessel for exploring the emergence of AI as a new medium for human-machine interaction.

Video link： https://youtu.be/wdj1q1SPme0

The progress of AGI & Be dissolved into a vital machinic plurality

In the burgeoning era of general artificial intelligence, users and technological artifacts are continuously influencing each other.

As we revel in convenience, we are also subtly altering our usage habits.

Humans could be overcoded by AI

Nohuman users could be replaced to human-beings

Generation of consciousness

Upgrading of product

Postscript on the Societies of Control & Theseus’s Paradox

The popularity of products that atomize humans (in place of human beings)

As Eliezer Yudkowsky puts it, “The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.” I feel that the AI perspective of narration is more like a mirror, reflecting the distance between us and AI, showing the relationship between us and AI.

1. How do human emotional flows and AI coding mechanisms exchange information?

2. When the information of organic life forms is atomized by AI technology, does the narrative of individual existence still exist?

Question RESEARCH Contradiction

Artificial general intelligence

Where after every component of a thing has been replaced, nothing original remains but a metaphysical husk—the User is confronted with the existential lesson that at any point he is only the intersection of many streams. At first, the subject position of the User overproduces individual identity, but in the continuance of the same mechanisms.

Human action and performance

One of the most basic motives of dance is the expression and communication of emotion. People—and even certain animals—often dance as a way of releasing powerful feelings，also dance for the pleasure of experiencing the body and the surrounding environment in new and special ways.

“Where after every component of a thing has been replaced, nothing original remains but a metaphysical husk” ––Ship of Theseus

As Deleuze's cybernetics show, as we enter the era of strong AI, artifacts are disciplined more and more anthropomorphic, and this metaphysical shell also disciplines humans.

human-beings

artificiality computation / use / interaction meta-machine analyse

Ai and mechanical reflection of human performance

barrier between human and AI

Human performance

The most typical form of human communication and social interaction, namely dance body language, is used as a symbol of human social interaction to refer to the externalization of my subjective discomfort from a symbolic perspective, and the discomfort can be empathized by the audience through the form of interactive devices.

Concept

The above elements are translated into the connection between the audience and the work, with theatrical on-site interaction, integrating body language to create the current material experiment

Performing Barriers

Express Emotion

Dance can, in fact, create a completely self-contained world for emotions

Break Down Barriers

Dance can serve as a catalyst for conversations around difficult or sensitive topics.

Foster Community

By organizing community dance events, you can create a space for people to connect, and build relationships.

Collage

Design

The mechanization of limbs, atomization of the body, and anthropomorphization of machines allow the audience to see the subtle relationship between the three. The help of fabric makes the relationship between the two more ambiguous.

Near-live digital representations of our bodies in data, measuring, and monitoring our movements

Changing from working exclusively by animals to doing that work with machinery Mechanization

Cyber Futuristic & friction-free something so high-tech and unfamiliar that it looks like it could come from the an imagined future

synchronous interaction Dancing infront Canvas

In the modeling and decomposition of the device, the curtain is taken as the partition, and the semi-light transmittance and flexibility of the fabric are used as the starting point to determine the partition distance between the base and the mechanical movement part.

The sensory experience of the pursuit of light is an index of people's pursuit of natural science and technology. People's pursuit of light is an "instinct" for the scientific and technological revolution.

human-beings

My own experience of drowning has endowed the material of the swimming fabric with a sense of suffocation and isolation. The hazy and translucent texture makes it the only choice for the installation fabric.

The structural strength and cold texture of stainless steel make the installation a collection of man-made products, symbolizing and emphasizing its characteristics.

Modeling Making

Programming

The 3D printed parts are composed of LED light tubes, resin grooves, bolts and nuts. The motor and drive module cooperate with the transformer to ensure the stability of long-term interaction.

Return to the Second Nature

* 60cm

ti-media Installatio

second nature does not disthe virtual media technolog y concept of posthuman condition, ween humans and the enviorganic or inorganic, have the rapid development of technologies, and even mixed imagination, which further of "nature and artificiality" and ecolog y". The installahumans use technolog y to or an ideal body and their f the living world. This project is for the event: “Future F

Future Fantastic

My project is for this event: “Future Fantastic”

Future Fantastic is a first-of-its-kind AI and Arts festival in India that highlights the power that collaborative creative production has in amplifying a global response to our shared nature emergency.

Artificial Nature

daily life

Artificial Nature is an aesthetic surrounding the theme of man-made creations mimicking, recreating, or replacing aspects of nature. Mitcham creates a framework for categorizing human relationships with technology, “being-with technology”.

Hegemony of Post-Human Spectacles Artist Study

When people face the pseudo-culture created by science and technology, they always think that it will eventually replace the material world, and present it as an immaterial and symbolic world, becoming a reality beyond materiality. Some argue that the material civilization of the current generation of technological media (including television, video recorders, video games, animation, or virtual reality) somehow leads humanity to a dematerialized, unnatural (artificial) world.

Ancient scepticism (suspicious of technology)

Enlightenment optimism (promotion of technology)

Romantic uneasiness (ambivalent about technology)

Volition (transcendence)

Will to technology involves tendency to turn away from God or the gods

Will to technology is ordained by God or by nature

Jean Baudrillard's concept of Hyperreality human activity

Will to technology is an aspect of creativity, which tends to crowd out other aspects

Activity (ethics)

Personal:

Technical affluence undermines individual virtue

Societal:

Technical change weakens political stability

Personal: Technical activities socialise individuals

Societal: Technology creates public wealth

Personal: Technology engenders freedom but alienates from affective strength to exercise it

Societal: Technology weakens social bonds of affection

Knowledge (epistemological)

Technical information is not true wisdom

Technical engagement with the world yields true knowledge (pragmatism)

Imagination and vision are more crucial than technical knowledge

Objects (metaphysics)

Artefacts are less real than natural objects and thus require external guidance

Nature and artifice operate by the same mechanical principles

Artefacts expand the process of life and reveal the sublime

The works show a very novel perspective in terms of concept absorption and creative medium, focusing on creating a deeper "communication" with audi ences.

ARTWORK

At The End of Everything

Artpace San Antonio 2023

The project delves into the nature of oil as an asser tive, almost sentient resource rather than a passive substance and explores the intersection of oil, life, and death.

REFLECTION

This installation forms a self-consistent and stable shape that connects the audience and the exhibition hall. While the audience is reflecting on themselves, they cannot directly form a strong visual connection with the products of the first nature (natural resources).

ARTWORK

Ground Station Metal Print

Artpace San Antonio 2021

Jean Baudrillard's concept of hyperreality can be understood as the idea that society often encounters a different reality formed by media, technology, and commercialization. This reality can seem more real than actual reality, such that people are unable to distinguish between the two.

The noise and glitches in the images were caused by them sometimes missing the direction of a satellite. Each image received was uniquely captured over the ten to fifteen minutes when one of the satellites was in a direct line-of-sight to the artist.

REFLECTION

The installation uses a new interactive form to visual ize and record radio signals. The richness of the carri er jumps over many limitations of the installation itself. The audience can form interactions with the work in the image.

By experimenting with the richness of the carrier, I added a visual screen display to the original design to allow the audience to have new communication with the indescribable natural information.

Second

The reason why I didn’t choose these ideas

In the physical realization of the water pump, it is difficult for the audience to associate the flow rate of the water pump with information such as weather and temperature. The visual presentation of the installation requires more visual carriers to make different interactive attempts. In the process of pre-setting the exhibition, the commissioned works need to communicate with the works, the venue and the man-made objects themselves and achieve the integrity of the information.

CONCEPT

Construction

Culture The cylinder has a sense of sacredness.

Sacred Scripture also describes people as columns and pillars.

The psalmist writes “May our sons in their youth be like plants full grown, our daughters like corner pillars cut for the structure of a palace. ” (Psalm 144:12)

Nature: The cylinder could represent natural vitality.

Tree trunks is cylindrical

cylinder is among the strongest 3D structures to support anything. So, cylindrical trunk provide best support for tree crown. 2) Most accurate It is natural for any cell to grow equally in all directions.

Material

Ferrofluid could be seen as the novel technological carrier and natural object.

As an aerospace material, magnetic fluid has gradually become a collection of novel technological carriers in man-made products. The magnetic material change with positive and negative. Test

The cylindergives the device a more "symbolic" appearance. It is sacred.

DESIGN

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Ferrofluid displays the unique state of the material in the switching of various forms

By adding simpler visual treatments, all installation structures serve the audience's first impression and visual experience when interacting with the work.

These three sensors are temperature, humidity, and atmospheric pressure. They are placed in the environment of the first nature. Through long-term changes in the environment, the values of the sensors change in real time and are transmitted to the stepper motor, causing the magnet of the stepper motor to move. Through the experimental characteristics of the magnetic fluid, the magnetic fluid is deformed, and translated by the touch designer and externalized on the screen.

pressure sensor

sensor

Arduino analyses temperature, humidity and atmospheric pressure sensors and drives the stepper motor to move.

The magnet on the stepper motor affects the magnetic fluid and causes deformation Designer processes the image captured by the macro camera and displays it on the screen.

This work was also invited to other exhibitions on the theme of technology and nature.

Return to Second Nature participated in the “Shanghai New Media Exhibition” and be exhibited at Nanjing D9

Video Link: https://youtu.be/oSG1wpFJvLg

Fusion and Symbiosis

Exhibition time: June 2024

Exhibition location: M50, Shanghai

Celebrating A World of Many Worlds

Exhibition time: July 2024

Exhibition location: China Academy of Art, Hangzhou

Space Shuttle Challenger disaster

On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members aboard.

In the case of the Challenger explosion, many people may have witnessed the tragedy live on television at school, work, or home on January 28, 1986, making it an event with flashbulb memory qualities. However, due to the factors mentioned above, details in memory may become blurred or replaced by false information over time.

WHEN IS THE CHALLENGER DISASTER DATE

Challenger

Explosion Date -

1986 or 1984?

The truth feedback given by gpt &

Forum User DiscussionA jigsaw puzzle of forum users' memories of the Challenger explosion discussion

Me: In the case of the Challenger explosion, many people may have witnessed the tragedy live on television at?

ChatGPT: school, work, or home on January 28, 1986, making it an event with flashbulb memory qualities. However, due to the factors mentioned above, details in memory may become blurred or replaced by false information over time.

The Mandela Effect

The Mandela Effect is a type of false memory that occurs when many different people incorrectly remember the same thing. It refers to a widespread false memory that Nelson Mandela died in prison in the 1980s. Memories are not always precise recordings of events.

Human brain

Reshape memory weaving

SkepticalThinker: I always remembered the Challenger space shuttle blowing up in 1984, but records say 1986. Before we jump on the Mandela bandwagon, could it be that big events like this get cloudy over time?

truthseeker101: First time here, and seeing this is mind-blowing. I could've sworn it was '84 too. Not saying I believe in alternate timelines but this got me questioning my memory.

mandelamessedmeup: Nah nah nah, don't downplay this. Mandela Effects are real and they happen for a reason. Maybe we're shifting through parallell realities or something. Just because it's 'officially' 1986 doesn't mean our memories are wrong. Maybe they're right in another universe!

https://www.thinkerapp.com/t/mandelaeffect/comments/bgp/

Re-filter stance information

“This tool is going to be the most powerful tool for spreading misinformation that has ever been on the internet Crafting a new false narrative can now be done at dramatic scale and much more frequently. It’s like having AI agents contributing to disinformation.”

--------Gordon Crovitz, a co-CEO of NewsGuard

Algorithmic Racism & Data colonialism

The development of AI and data-driven technological advances have been largely dominated by Western tech giants, leading to a global approach to data collection and utilization that has been termed “data colonialism,” in which AI technologies and models are designed, deployed, and used to serve

in which AI technologies and models are designed, deployed, and used to serve the interests of the West more than the needs of multiculturalism across the globe.

Is Our perception of the truth “A LOOP”

Humanity's perceived tendency to close the loop on time, technology, and the perception of truth.

The staircase is pre-positioned in a cave, giving the viewer room to feel more tension while restoring the period of the American-Soviet Cold War

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Technology in the process of self-transformation is a pseudo-linear development of the AI context in the perspective of the old aerospace context is experienced. New technologies and methodologies, but in the value system, the mainstream media still control the implantation of ideology.

The artwork of MC Escher The main model of my work

Up and down the staircase, the work references a sense of mixed order for time, events, and forms the basic framework logic for the display of the Challenger fragments

Kennedy assassination

Starbucks logo

Mickey Mouse's underwear

Statue of Liberty

Black Tom Big Bang

The style of the British flag

The position of the right hand of the

sculpture The Thinker

The lyrics of "Love My China"

Bruce Lee's lines in Fist of Fury

Animation Rubik's Cube Building

Pianist Lang Lang is disabled

1986 TV series "Journey to the West" Yang

Li Daxian Oil pan incident

Year of Mandela's death

Year of Wu Ma's death Pikachu's tail

First space: viewer tour, TV set Soviet AI broadcast generated. Viewer finds an elevator and enters it to the second space. The second space places a fragment of the Challenger, viewers approaching the fragment will pop-up a virtual newspaper of the event the effect of Challenger rocket launch and explosion Material ball: The glowing material simulates the fragments of the Challenger

Link:

https://youtu.be/7cGzBP9tQb0

We are equal under our thoughts, and the control and controlled devices are formed in the face of the mechanism. When the audience is in chaos and order, they are often unable to form a unified thought. The work aims to allow the audience to form self-reflection and new dialogue through action. Heart rate control focuses attention on disciplined self-reflection.

CONCEPT PROCESS

Spectators wearing EEG sensors near the device

The device captures the audience's heart rate in real time, changing the blinking spell in the touchdesigner

The device affects the audience's heart rate

Audience “control”

Product counter-control “audience”

1. AI forms the content of a preset video from keywords entered by the user.

2. The heartbeat and EEG sensors change the motion frequency range value (0 to 1) in the touch designer; the Arduino generates a signal and affects the motion rate of the device in real time.

3. The device completes the translation, which affects the heart rate of the experiencer, and the closed loop of control is formed at this moment.

"I want to show the magnificence in the mind of people who cannot move and speak" is the original intention of the author

The particles follow the sensor's speed and move regularly within the range of 0 to 1, simulating the tense atmosphere of the heartbeating and EEG, and the feeling of being repressed when being disciplined. The visual is mainly based on the base map generated by AI for basic transformation to achieve the ultimate goal of interaction.

DEVELOPMENT---FUTURE VERSION

I want the interactive venue to be condensed into an interactive device that can move forward, surround the people visiting the exhibition, and use digital screens for subsequent visualization.

Now

In fact, the improvement idea is to focus on people's senses and amplify the perception and sensibility of the senses. Large interactive devices will not achieve such good train ing effects, and it is hoped to strengthen the purpose of training and amplify the emo tional feedback after being disciplined.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eKtMjW7T7w&t=343s

I will continue to study in the following learning process