身边艺术｜王业丰 Frank WANG Yefeng

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王业丰，出生于1984年，是一名跨学科新媒体艺术家，会运用到多种媒体技术，包括3D动画，视频，装置和诗歌。从中国移居到北美的经历，让他能够从一个多元文化个体的角度展现创造力，使他得以研究与流浪主义和合法性有关的问题。作为一个流动移民，他的经历往往让他孕育出以后人类主义为中心的想象中的形象，以及将真实与虚拟编织在一起的场景。在他以时间为基础的作品中，叙事的角度通常介于边界，多语言和事物的发展状态之间。

Frank WANG Yefeng (b. 1984) is an interdisciplinary artist who works across multiple media, including 3D animation, video art, installation, and poetry. Traversed from China to North America, his existential position as a multicultural individual illuminates his creation and makes him investigate the questions related to Nomadism and liminality. As a migrant who turned nomad, his experience hatches whimsical characters that are often post-anthropocentric, and imageries that weave together the real and the virtual. The narratives in his time-based works are often in-between frontiers, multi-linguistic, and in the state of becoming.

《鸟系列-慢鬼魂》的灵感来自于一次散漫的公路旅行。在旅途中，一个奇怪的鸟形人体模型在乡间的路边被意外地发现了。这个模型的姿势就像是在无休止地向过往车辆挥手，却从没有得到任何回应。在王业丰的动画中，这个角色就像一个悬浮的幽灵，它目睹了周遭的一切，同时却不断被忽视。通过在这个意外发现的形象的孤独中重构这个角色，这件作品以一种荒诞的存在感试图减缓人们的快节奏生活，并通过“减速”和“打断”等姿态实现一种对于他者的新的想象。在展示时，多块印有动画角色的广告牌上携带有二维码，它使路人停下脚步，用手机扫描并观看线上展览中的动画作品。

Slow Spectre is inspired by a discursive road trip in a remote area in Europe. Away from the primary highroads and large chain gas stations, an absurd bird-shaped mannequin is accidentally encountered at a humble café on a country roadside. The mannequin endlessly waves at the passing vehicles without receiving a response. In the animation, the character appears as an invisible ghost who levitates on the road. It witnesses its surroundings while constantly being neglected. Its sedate sense of time is in contrast to the constant acceleration of the passengers under its eyes. By recontextualizing the character in its solitude, the piece disrupts and slows down people’s rapid life with an uncanny presence. QR codes are printed together with the digitally rendered images on the outdoor billboards, making the passersby stop, scan, and view the animation in the online exhibition. While the accelerationist prediction of emancipation has failed to been realized, this character intends to fulfill an outlook of a “newness” by the gestures of “deceleration” and “disruption.”

《梦幻空间》是一个虚构的、未完成的虚拟公寓。它由普通建筑材料和王业丰3D项目文件夹中的随机数字文件构建而成。当观众进入作品时，虚拟空间会使用谷歌翻译器重复朗诵一行文字，试图无休止地向他们推销这个虚拟公寓。

Dreamspace is a VR project developed based on my Experimental 3D animations The Drifting Stages. Dreamspace is a fictional and unfinished virtual apartment. It is constructed by common building material and random digital files in my 3D project folders. When the viewer enters the work, the virtual space repetitively recites a line of texts using Google Translator, it attempts to sell this virtual apartment to the viewer endlessly.