【OCT-LOFT创意节】展品介绍|爱玛•查尔斯《白山》

03.《白山》

16mm转高清视频， 20'56" ，2013

爱玛•查尔斯《白山》「欢乐宫殿——2019 OCT-LOFT创意节」展览现场

爱玛•查尔斯《白山》影像作品片段

《白山》是一部16毫米胶片拍摄的剧情式纪录片，主要讲述佩蒂恩（Pionen）数据中心的故事。影片从索德马尔姆（Södermalm）周围的大致地形展开，逐渐深入到地表之下，揭开了通常隐匿起来的网络基础设施的面纱。

这座冷战时期的民防地堡是由建筑师阿尔伯特·弗朗西斯-拉诺德在2008年重新设计的，他将其变成了一个数据中心，为曾经包括维基解密和海盗湾（PirateBay）在内的客户存放服务器。该神秘的数据中心位于斯德哥尔摩卑尔根公园（Vita Bergen Park）花岗岩地层30米之下，设计理念直接参考了《无声奔跑》这样的科幻电影。它既像邦德式反派人物的巢穴，又似复古-未来主义的宇宙飞船，在其中，鱼类和郁郁葱葱的绿色植物与数据储存系统的信号灯并存。影片《白山》架构于科幻小说美学之上，在里斯•帕利卡Jussi Parikka的诗化叙述中，揭示了数字设备、地理物质和深层时间/地质时间之间的联系。通过从数据中心地表上的岩面和服务器储存室内部收集振动的电磁声，一种声音景观被构建出来，揭示并改造着那隐秘环境的混响。

White Mountain

16mm transferred to HD video, 20 mins 56 seconds, 2013

White Mountain is a 16mm docu-fiction film focusing on the Pionen data centre.Starting by surveying the rough topography of the surrounding Södermalm landscape, the film gradually pushes beneath the surface, illuminating the ordinarily concealed network infrastructure.

This former Cold War era civil defence bunker was redesigned by architect Albert Frances-Lanord in 2008 into a data centre, housing servers for clients which once included WikiLeaks and PirateBay. Located 30 meters under the granite rocks of Vita Bergen Park in Stockholm, the subterranean data centre has been designed with direct references to science fiction films such as‘Silent Running’. Part Bond villain lair, part retro-futuristic spaceship, fish and lush greenery coexist alongside the flashing lights of the data storage systems. Playing on the science fiction aesthetic and with poetic narration written by Jussi Parikka, White Mountain uncovers the link between digital devices, geological materials and deep time or geologic time. Gathering vibrational and electromagnetic sound from the rock face above the data center as well as deep inside the server room itself, a soundscape has been created both revealing and processing the reverberations of the hidden environment.

爱玛•查尔斯是一位来自英国伦敦的艺术家和电影制片人。她以实验性的方法处理影像和声音，基于调研的创作广泛触及非虚构领域，并反复出现技术、资本主义和景观等主题。其创作游走于纪实与虚构的模糊边界，往往揭示出电影环境和我们生活经历中都存在的虚假性。她曾在伦敦蛇形画廊、伦敦当代艺术学院、柏林世界文化宫和巴黎法国国立网球现代美术馆参展；在谢菲尔德纪录片电影节、伦敦东区电影节、伦敦建筑电影节等电影节上放映过自己的作品。

《白山》曾获2017年英国谢菲尔德纪录片节“新星奖”（New Talent Award）。2015年和2017年她曾获得了英国艺术理事会奖，英国文化协会中英文化交流奖和大象信托基金。爱玛•查尔斯的电影被中国广东美术馆和德国卡尔鲁斯厄艺术与媒体中心收藏。爱玛•查尔斯拥有皇家艺术学院的摄影硕士学位。

Emma Charles is a London-based artist and filmmaker. Working with experimental approaches to moving image and sound, her research based practice navigates the field of non-fiction while engaging with recurring themes of technology, capitalism and landscape.Playing with the blurred lines between documentary and fiction, her work often reveals the artificiality of both the filmic environment and our lived experience. She has exhibited at Serpentine Galleries and ICA London; HKW, Berlin and Jeu de Paume, Paris. She has also screened her films at Sheffield Doc/Fest, East End Film Festival, Architecture Film Festival London, Abandon Normal Devices and Impakt Festival.

Emma was nominated for the New Talent Award for her film‘White Mountain’at Sheffield Doc/Fest in 2017. She is the recipient of a 2015 and 2017 Arts Council England award, British Council UK-China Connections Through Culture grant and The Elephant Trust fund. Charles’ films are held in two museum collections at Guangdong Museum of Art in China and The ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe in Germany. Emma holds an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art.

2019 OCT-LOFT创意节正于深圳华侨城创意文化园北区C2展厅举办。此次创意节将以“欢乐宫殿”为题，聚焦技术伦理及其与社会的关系，强调人们作为“提问者”的角色，并试图借此激发与话题相关的各种讨论。

「欢乐宫殿」主展览部分共邀请16组国内外艺术家，展出包括交互装置、影像、声音、摄影等不同媒介的17件艺术作品。此外，在创意节期间，我们也将组织丰富多样的公共项目，从不同角度与观众一同反思并回应当下的技术生活。

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