吳梓寧,《虛境公民 Cyberbeings》,網路藝術,2003-2004。

2003-2004年間,作者以3D動畫創造了七位網路虛擬角色、七座網路虛擬城市、七個網路虛擬自然場景的動畫影像,呈現作者對網路世界的想像。這些3D獨立製作在發表當時仍屬少見的視覺效果,並贏得了2004年的台北美術獎優選。隨著時間,3D動畫技術的革新與時俱進,已經達到更高標準的影像品質,人們在商業廣告與高成本電影中持續追求視覺刺激。如今,當我們回看《虛境公民》系列影片,仍能發現關於多重的網路虛擬分身與網路場域想像性的明顯符號,包含去性別、去身份的身體形象與動物性姿態的結合,並指向了七宗罪、七位守護天使、七種人性特質,或者網路使用者的七個虛擬化身。而七座《虛境城市》中的運動和《虛境自然》中的場景,或許可以對應到我們在網頁上隨處瀏覽或沈迷於網路遊戲中,七個開啟的視窗、七種逃離現實的路徑。
附註:虛境公民2003-2004最初版本為七頻道單槍投影裝置,三頻道與單頻道版本在2005年後製作,有多種裝置與數位輸出展出版本。並於2008-2009年重製了六個不同視角的環景影音版本,在國立台灣美術館,以360°環景影音裝置呈現。

Between 2003-2004, the early stage of 3D Animation development, the artist created seven Cyber-creatures, seven Cyber-cities, and seven Cyber-natural scenes in 3D animations which showed her imaginations of the Cyberspace. These independent productions made great visual impacts at that time, and won Honorable Mention of 2004 Taipei Art Awards. With the evolutions of 3D Animations technology over time, we have reached a higher standard of the image quality, and people keep pursuing the visual stimulations in the commercials and high cost movies. Nowadays, when we review this series of Cyberbeings videos, we can still find some significant symbols and diversified imaginations on cyber virtual identities and cyber spatial fields, including her Cyberbeings Series which consists of images of desexualized figures, of a combination of animals, and of implying the seven deadly sins, seven guardian angels, seven qualities of human nature, or seven avatars of users on the Internet. Thus, we can also take seven Cyber-cities and seven Cyber-natural scenes as seven windows where to escape from the reality, when we are surfing on the Internet or addicted to the online games.
Notes:The First Version of Cyberbeings in 2003-2004 was 7 Channels Projection Installation. The three channels version and single channel version were made after 2005 with various installation versions and also have digital prints of these works. Cyberbeings was recreated as six different viewing angles in 2008-2009 and shown with the new 360° projection devices of NTMOFA (National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts).

 

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