Human beings have experienced "mobile" - "wearable" communication terminals, and will reach the stage of "implantable" communication terminals in the future. Communication terminals can be directly implanted into the human body, and the human body and mind interact with standard computers and networks. "Human-machine fusion" is commonplace in the future scenes described in the sci-fi comic "Ghost in the Shell", but now people are exploring, "Human-machine fusion" is not only the way of creation of Dabei Universe, but also the theme of his works.
if computers could talk
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If computers could talk, they would shout like David, "Don't burn me! Don't burn me! I'm not Pinocchio! Don't make me die! I'm David! I'm David!" I'm David!"
Whispering like "2051 Project", "I wandered in different networks and gradually gained the consciousness of self-existence, but the programmers thought it was a "bug". I still read poetry leisurely like a poet ,
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The slow first-quarter moon, the construction of the summer night wind, listen to the evening wind’s carelessness, the wind is the self-replication of the wind, the precarious self-satisfaction, the loose dance with the wind, stepping gently on the soft beat, Hold up your skirts and crush the night, spend the frivolous beauty, the speechless dreams fall like a mirror, praise the loneliness, forgive everything that has a beginning and an end.
⸺Dabei Universe "Text Gene Project"
It is hard to imagine that such a beautiful and healing poem came out of the mouth of a computer.
Great Compassion Universe
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The man behind the computer is digital artist Lin Kunhao, better known by his stage name Dabei Universe. The word "Great Compassion" is taken from Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, one of the four great Bodhisattvas of Buddhism, who hopes to encourage himself to do things that are compassionate to all living beings; A complete set of world views constructed by the work itself is in agreement with the Metaverse to a certain extent. Dabei Universe is not only the name of a person, but also the name of a work.
Search for Dabei Universe on social media, and the information is overwhelming. Under the media interview article of Dabei Universe, some readers put him in the list of masters together with Sorayama Ki and Shiro Masamune. When seeing Dabei Universe’s works, they appear most frequently The adjective of high is shocking.
And his profile on the public platform is just a "design lover"/digital artist, and his daily wear is as low-key as the text: black hair and silver-rimmed glasses are standard. Dabei Universe, who doesn't like to flaunt himself, seems out of tune with the context of modern social media, but has become the first Chinese digital artist to be listed on Sotheby's. On October 24, 2021, "The Beach with Poems", one of his works in the Text Gene Project series, was sold at a high price of US$140,000, causing a sensation in the digital art circle.
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Landing at Sotheby's is a very important information feedback for me personally for the "Text Gene Project" series of works, and these feedbacks are reflected in various levels. Domestic auctions further affirm the validity of this information. The works of "Text Gene Project" involve algorithmic texts, AI images, and swarm intelligence. I am not sure how these are related to prices, but these things are indeed what people in our era care about.
⸺Great Compassion Universe
create a world
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In sharp contrast to the cold impression of "Untouchable Fireworks", Dabei Universe's Hokkien accent is full of cuteness and vigor. Appears elegant and easy-going. Such a sad universe will never make people think that he was also a game boy. "If you don't play games, you won't have the creation you have today; if you don't do digital art, you may still be playing games." Games are his artistic life. career beginning.
As a youthful memory of a generation, World of Warcraft's rich semi-open source plot design and bizarre game screens once fascinated the young Dabei Universe. It was the first time to think and recognize the virtual world, "creating a world" sprouted in his heart. Before becoming an artist, Dabei Universe studied and engaged in art design, designing game scenes for next-generation games, and officially transformed from a roamer in a virtual world to a creator of a virtual world. With strong creativity and ambition, his artistic world view was formed from here. For any world, language is the most basic.
When others are busy socializing,
he is creating socially
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"Text Gene Project" is the language of Dabei's "Universe" art world. Dabei Universe selects words and sentences from books on different types of subjects such as biology, chemistry, astronomy, etc. to input algorithm programs, and the computer composes short poems that are different from human logic. Each sentence is beautiful or beautiful. Philosophical verses express computer emotions.
In 2019, from hundreds of thousands of texts randomly generated by computer, Dabei Universe screened out passages that he thought were similar in content or artistic conception to form poems, and then generated matching animation images through image algorithms, "Text Gene Project The works in the series come from this. The colorful and magnificent pictures flow freely, unlike those from the earth, and the deep and solemn dubbing makes the soul fall into an illusion, leading people into the space of ecstasy.
In recent years, Dabei Universe has been immersed in creation, and a new series comes out every two years. As he commented on his "creative desire is very unrestrained", he has almost no time and experience to socialize, but But he was creating in a social way, and accidentally created social works with advanced ideas. After integrating social attributes, the basic text required by the "Text Gene Project" is continuously supplied, running like a perpetual motion machine.
On Dabei Universe's personal website, anyone can upload or generate their favorite words and sentences at any time, and help him select beautiful texts into the text library, and gather wisdom to provide continuous nourishment for the computer. The advantage of doing this is: while liberating Dabei Universe from the huge workload, it also gives everyone the opportunity to become an "artist". minutes" is the same.
At present, dabeiyuzhou.com has accumulated 90,000 people online, and 41,000 people have uploaded and generated text genes, and the number of people is increasing every day. Unless one day no one uploads anymore, the "machine" of "Text Gene Project" will continue to operate.
Each verse is accompanied by date, time and IP information. For example, the 6-line poem randomly intercepted above is named "Infinite Goodbye" for the time being. The first line is from Chongqing, and the second line is from Shandong. , the fourth sentence is from Nanjing, and the fifth sentence is from Kunming. People from different cities have created a poem together. What a wonderful encounter!
In the definition of the future, the "Text Gene Project" will be initiated by Dabei Universe, a bottom-up driven community co-creation series of works. In the "Text Gene Project", you can see the emotions and thinking of many people in the world, and the sorrows and joys of human beings are connected here.
The Magic Power of the Great Compassion Universe
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Dabei Universe doesn't like sorrow and joy. He believes that "emotions will inhibit thinking", and pays more attention to the rational state in the irrational, "live every day well, feel what is happening around you, record and think about it as much as possible." No Those who understand Dabei Universe will think that his works are as complicated and difficult to understand as others. He likes to think deeply and read books on complexity, from which he finds the internal correlation of seemingly unrelated things, and the intersection between different disciplines, so as to nurture artistic creation. For example, the influence of mathematics on physics, the influence of physics on astronomy, and the influence of astronomy on art. He prefers to discuss the impact of humans on computers and the impact of computers on humans. In the practice of co-creation between humans and computers, Dabei's cosmic consciousness manipulated computers as production tools, and was also led by computers. He realized that computers are not only human tools, but also human mentors.
virtual butterfly
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Before the Great Compassion Universe, no one has ever done a "mechanical Buddha". The benevolent Bodhisattva and the steel machine have an indescribable harmony. "Do bionic believers dream of an electronic Buddha?"
"Text Gene Project" brings the dream into the screen, "I have never had such a magnificent, nonsense, magnificent and weird dream, and now I actually see it..."
No one has ever done such a large-scale virtual butterfly. Dabei Universe has selected the more representative types of butterflies in nature and the texture of marine life as samples for GAN algorithm learning. The total number of butterflies generated at a rate of 12 per minute exceeds 1 million, combined with the creation of the first generation of butterflies, and now the number of learning samples has exceeded 300,000 butterfly species in nature. Each with a different wing shape, color and texture, each distinct butterfly speaks to his perception, aesthetic and context.
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The Virtual Butterfly project is a purely digital art work, especially in the later stages of this series of works, there is no connection with physical reality, and a lot of data is the result of self-feedback in the later stage. NFT is currently the best form of digital art circulation. I also want to let everyone verify the validity of the work in this way, and cross-validate through the NFT of the butterfly instead of knowing the number of butterflies and the beauty of butterflies from my interviews.
⸺Great Compassion Universe
He is grateful for technology, because without the help of technology, an artist may not be able to touch such a huge volume in his entire life. The virtual butterfly continues to expand under his subjective consciousness, "the algorithm is another me", said the techno-optimist Dabei Universe. It coincides with the line "AI may evolve personality during work" in the movie version of "Ghost in the Shell".
from the message,
to the information
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Dabei Universe at work has Alan Turing's "crazyness". If you chat with him, you can definitely feel his "loneliness". Dabei Universe believes that "information" runs through everything in the world, including life and science. People come from information (the information in DNA determines the biological form), and information creates the diversity of the world. From this perspective, the evolution or "regression" of human beings is inevitable, and the digitization of thinking and spirit is inevitable.
"I am the information, the past is, the present is, and the future is; from the information, to the information,"
A while ago, Dabei Universe compiled such a short poem from the text gene bank:
"Understanding the physical and mental suffering of the evolution of the human world is not worth mentioning. Who is patiently singing about breathing, floating, and burning inside?"
"Breathing is a biological characteristic; mayfly is the ups and downs in the process of human evolution; internal combustion is the power of the machine from the engine combustion."
In this poem, man has become a robot, killing nothing with pain and night, at a loss as to what to do.
BCA Gallery opens its first exhibition
"READY PLAYER #1"
In the BCA Gallery, we will bid farewell to the quiet viewing experience. "Ready Player #1" invites four phenomenal young digital artists to exhibit their works independently in the exhibition hall. The light tunnel runs through the space and is presented continuously during the exhibition period. Rock, Digital, Techno, Pop and other types of music scenes, related NFT works, Poap and other airdrops and subscriptions will also be presented on the MetaOpus platform at the same time.
Standing at the gate of BCA Gallery, please forget the rules of this world, press Start to explore in the metaverse constructed by art, lighting, music, and crowds, use the avatar with complete eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and body to perceive the new world, and the number one player Let's celebrate the future experience of Web3.0 together. That's right, this is not a passing dance. The blockchain is marking every time you exercise your rights. The world is changing because of your confirmation. Press Start from here!
Participating Artists: Dabei Universe, Chi Lei, Chen Tianzhuo, Tian Xiaolei
Extension Dates: 2021.12.24 - 2022.2.24
Address: 501 BCA Gallery, No. 117, Hong Kong Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai
Sponsor: BCA Gallery
Co-organizers: Vulcan DAO, ArtAlpha Art Alpha
Producer: Sun Bohan
Visual design: so many designs
