Sublog

2019
Hunsand Space, Beijing

The exhibition will present Jiang Zhuyun's recent further thoughts on the possible state of individual existence in the digital age. The works in exhibition will respectively carry out discussion inside and outside in different directions on the mobile phone, a product under technology existing like an “external organ”. From December 29, 2014 to August 30, 2019, humorously responds to the personal private data recorded by the iPhone app Health in five years with the current knowledage-sharing stage mode of Talk. +86 18657167587 conveys the artist's attitude and doubt on man-machine relationship at present by "negative" means, through the opening of the adventure and the experiment of cutting off this "external organ". Just as he says:

Filled with outdated logs, the diary seems to be dying. The happy people in the cloud world generate samples about individuals, which are kinds of pure, discrete and transportable data. At the same time of disgust with the area of entrance guard by face swiping, they are also dubious and take the mobile phone as an external organ. Today's love-hate relationship doesn't come from a simple relationship of replacement or a bad user experience. I'm trying to imagine that there's some kind of interchange (transaction), and it's always going to continue. Maybe it's going to get complicated but interesting.

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Hunsand Space | 2019














2014.12.29 - 2019.8.31
2019
Installation
Processing / Minim / Arduino Leonardo
computer/ displayer / speaker, stereo / pedal switch

Through the third-party software Access,the artist invoked the step counting data over the past five years of his iPhone APP Health. Artist used the data over the five years to modulate the sounds of mosquitoes passing by.











+86 18657167587
2019
Installation
Processing
cell phone / contact speaker / computer / amplifier / spring / piezo microphone

The artist's cell phone is placed in the space during the exhibition, suspended with springs and ropes. Its vibration will be amplified when there is a call or reminder (the artist will set it as a Morse code). The artist authorizes the gallery to keep his cell phone in the form of works during the exhibition.