The Past of the Future = Contemporary
Today, the low artificial intelligence – AlphaGo has gained an impressive achievement, so many people would inadvertently think of the relationships between gravitational waves, double black holes, quantum communication, liquid of Mars, God particles and our daily life? As the kind Mother Teresa questioned why NASA that had a huge scientific fund but they did not help the poor children, she believed that everything is arranged by God, and then I would like to purpose that human’s exploration of the unknown is also arranged by God.
When the industrial revolution started 250 years ago, the development of machinery made a large number of farmers and workers unemployed, so many people thought it to be a disaster: pollution, destruction, weapons and wars at that time. The desire of capital was unlimitedly released, which had also spawned a variety of social movements, and artistic genres. It is really the great era, even though the air was full of sulfur oxides in the Europe, which had finished the social transformation, and it is the origin of the present life.
The industrial revolution has created amazing productivities, whether the intelligent times with rapid information can liberate human’s labor to create a better future? Autopilot, virtual reality, holographic images, spatial travel, organ cloning, nanotechnology, gradually enter our life, and whenever a new intelligent product emerges, people always want to try it as soon as possible.
And then, what price does we have to face when the era of intelligence arrive? Many novelists narrate that artificial intelligence rebels humans, and humans are getting more and more lazy which will become a reality, when material civilization continuously meets the desire, humans’ spirit is increasingly indulged in the fantasy, we can’t predict whether it is a destruction or the broader world.
We have imaged a perspective used by the future human beings to reflect on the past, like we reflect on the industrial revolution today. We suppose that human beings safely entered a new era or were destroyed in 2084, and then the current time archives were very important human memories. We have manufactured such a space: a space with the hybridization of information; a blurred and strange space in need of imaginary and verification; the space to trigger events like the butterfly effect; from the future (2084) to reflect on the past (present), across time to look for the key sources of information and explosive dots on the crossroads.
We would like to say that, it is the most sincere contemporary space.
Text by Yan Jiawei on April 17th
About the exhibition:
Title: For Every Yesterday of the Future
Organizer: 11 Gallery
Exhibition Project: Quantum Republic
Artists: Chen Peihua, Li Yinong, Li Yuansu, Tian Yuanzi, Wang Xiaoshuang, Wang Bo, Xie Yi, Yan Jiawei, Yang Jie, Zheng Manyi, Zhang Zhengquan
Duration: July 16th – August 9th, 2016
Opening Ceremony: 16:00, July 16th, 2016
Venue: 3-16 Pingod Community, No.32 Baiziwan Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing
Courtesy of the artists and 11 Gallery.
