身边艺术｜张祎桐 Zhang Yitong

张祎桐，青年独立艺术家，目前受聘为英国格拉斯哥艺术学院驻校艺术家。硕士毕业于英国皇家艺术学院首饰与金属系，其优秀硕士论文被收录于皇家艺术学院图书馆，本科毕业于格拉斯哥艺术学院，获一等荣誉学位，期间赴美国加州艺术学院进行学术交流。

Zhang Yitong, independent artist,is currently employed as an Artist-in-Residence at the Glasgow School of Art, UK. She completed her Masters in Jewellery & Metal at the Royal College of Art, during which her dissertation with distinction has been collected by the RCA library. Before that, Yitong graduated from the Glasgow School of Art with a first-class honours Bachelor’s degree, also travelling for an academic exchange to the California College of the Arts.

作品《Digitalogy》受到3D软件建构模型时因指令错误造成的无法被打印出来的破面的启发，将数字系统尽力避免和拒绝的戏剧性错误形态通过手工艺的方式弥补和实现，将其转化为一种审美原则，从而提出关于“手工艺与数字技术，手与机器的下一代会是什么？”这一问题的假想。作品旨在为传统手工艺在数字造物语境下可能的发展趋势提供一种角度，以及为数字技术与人类的逻辑之间提供一个讨论的场所。

Digitalogy is inspired by the forms of the broken models caused by the wrong order that is accidentally used while building models with 3D software, which could not actually be printed. Through making up and realising these dramatic and unpredictable incorrect forms which have been rejected, and which the digital system tries to exclude through craft and transforming them into an aesthetic principle, Yitong provides a possible response to the question-What is the next generation of objects created by traditional craft and digital technology, human hand and machine? Yitong aims to offer a point of view in thinking about the potential development of traditional craft in the digital environment, as well as the context for a discussion about the dialogue between the logic of digital technology and human. 

《12/03/2022；26/03/2022；12/04/2022》系列以其制作日期命名，聚焦于探索物体，材料与诗意之间的关系。作者以去符号性和保留功能性并存这一悖论的方式，试图创造拒绝文字，拥有完全属于自己的诗意的物体。通过对比，置换和结合诗歌和物体的语言特性，探讨金属物体的诗意与抽象叙事感觉。

This collection of works is titled by the dates they were made and focuses on exploring the relationship between object, material, and poetry. Yitong attempts to create objects that refuse words, with the poetry completely belonging to themselves in the way of the paradox between de-symbolisation and the retaining of functionality. Through contrasting, exchanging, and combining the language characteristics of poetry and objects, Yitong tries to investigate the poetic and abstract narrative of metal objects through these works.