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Chinese Encryption Artist Empowers Art with Technology to Make Oriental Culture "Out of Circle"

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Some crypto artists in China incorporate eastern culture in their works and use technology to empower art.

Original title: "Chinese Encryption Artist Empowers Art with Science and Technology and Leaves Oriental Culture Out of Circle"

Originally written by Medy

Digital artist Beeple dropped an atomic bomb on the art world when his NFT work Everyday: The First 5,000 Days sold for $450 million. As cryptographic artworks are frequently sold for astronomical prices, the discussion around cryptographic art is intensive in China. A number of online and offline exhibitions of NFT art have been held. Artists, collectors, curators and practitioners of art institutions have discussed the development road of Chinese cryptographic art together.

Cryptographic art is supported by blockchain technology. The rights of the artwork are confirmed or stored on the decentralized blockchain, which is truly owned by the holder. The artist can issue the artwork without being limited to a third party or middleman. Anyone can trade, transfer, or even destroy it. The art media in crypto art space is constantly new, and the art form is more broad. In addition to pictures, it can also be GIF, video, and programmable art. The value of a work of art depends on the preferences of its users and the free-trading prices of the open market.

Critics say NFT is the beginning of a new era, and the crypto art movement is the most important art revolution of the second millennium. All round the world art history, its development is in the process of change, the Renaissance follow naturalism and its perspective, is to change the gothic abstract expressionism and stylized, and Picasso's cubist overturned and Matisse beast socialist realistic painting, duchamp urinals moved to the museum, with the finished product to the public now "what is art" is put forward.

NFT art does not constitute a new art form, it is essentially digital art. Digital art has emerged and developed vigorously in the 1980s. In the process of development, it constantly subverts the tradition and broadens the boundaries and concepts of art. However, the emergence of NFT encryption art is an enabling of art by technology, and the boundary between art and technology has been completely broken. As a new track, NFT has attracted many artists to participate. Some domestic crypto artists incorporate eastern culture in their works, and use technology to empower art to create NFT art in line with Chinese cultural taste, such as Song Ting, Lin Kunhao, Ma Rui and others.

Song Ting, 'Tao Incarnate'

Song Ting's NFT work "Butterfly Love Flower of Peony Pavilion Reve -- Information Technology Penetrates Me" was auctioned on May 14 in the form of online auction. Song's work was previously auctioned for 119ETH on cryptoart.ai, a cryptographic platform. Song Ting is a crypto artist, a science fiction writer, an open-source chess player, and a feminist. Her works pursue the integration of technology and culture, material and spiritual, and convey religious beliefs different from traditional religious feelings, but to express the philosophy of incarnation.

"Tao Incarnate" (AI-Human Collaborative Video and NFT) is one of Ms. Song's favorites. She used the patterns generated by the anti-generative neural network for the base of the flesh and blood, and the hand-drawn drawings of the bodhisattva in Mogao Grottoes Cave No. 45 for the skin. The work expresses that in the turbulent times, God does not hide on the holy mountain, but the true God hides in the tears of the suffering people. Now we hold information technology as a god. Babel with Skin (AI-Human Collaborative Painting and NFT) is an exploration and reflection on whether algorithms can overcome biases and help build a cross-cultural Tower of Babel.

Great Mercy Universe (Lin Kunhao) is one of the most influential digital artists in China. In "As If," which opened in Shanghai at the end of 2020, 100 Daibutsu, a restored butbutsu, grew a powerful network of stacked simulacrobuta, using algorithms to simulate the ideology of SuperMind, a cyberspace that is so diffuse. His work explores the mechanical elements of virtual worlds and how their digital logic is combined with philosophical thinking.

Since 2015, Lin has continued to create the "Future Buddha" series using 3D combined with science fiction elements. In his opinion, 3D technology can create the whole world and the universe, and the channel of man to god may be technology. The Buddhas are becoming more and more refined, with a variety of mechanized arteries, reticular structures, and intertwined pipes, making them more futuristic and sci-fi. In 2018 he began exploring biology, algorithms, his insect series and virtual project series, combining algorithms to achieve a "tech-god-man" or "creator" state. He also uses generative adversarial neural network images and algorithmic text to create the Text Gene Project. . He believed that human itself is an "algorithm", he used the algorithm of science and technology to resist the human algorithm, so that people's limited life can be expanded.

Ma Rui, "Windy Mountain Clouds"

Four of Ma's NFT works, The Grace of Cloud Mountain, The Red Central Park of the Forbidden City, The Battle of the Angel and Jacob, and Blue Planet, have been distributed in decentralized NFT. Auction platform on the CROSS, is currently HNFT online exhibition hall exhibition Gallery (https://www.nftgallery.zone/list.html?gid=1& Img = 1. JPG). Ma Rui has multiple identities such as encryption artist and designer. He has cooperated with many brands, such as BMW's new 7-series crossover designer collaboration promotion, Vertu mobile phone collaboration design, Dell computer crossover, and Palace Museum culture collaboration.

Since he was a child, Ma Rui has studied calligraphy, fine brush painting, jade carving and so on, and has a deep research on traditional Chinese culture. His digital art works are also rooted in the thousands of years of Oriental culture, and through the integration of art and technology, arouse people's philosophical thoughts on the Oriental civilization. The creation form of the work combines traditional Chinese art, ultra-flat, pop art and other styles, and adds cyberpunk style, with a sense of the future.

The work "grace of cloud mountain" is themed with the terra-cotta warriors. The artist painted the terracotta warriors in fashionable colors, which have lost their colors after thousands of years of weathering. In terms of space, the Terracotta Army is not only a warrior, but also like the land and the mountains. People and the land are integrated, becoming a symbol, a recognition of their identity IP. The mountain in the painting is similar to the mountain in Chinese painting and is also a reconstituted mountain. The artist endows the natural landscape with artificial traces to show the transformation of nature by human beings in the present world. The ball at the bottom of the picture can be thought of as a planet, perhaps the future of human life. The artist places the terracotta warriors between the present and the future, leading the audience to think about the inheritance of Chinese civilization.

Lu Rongzhi put forward in the New Bureau of Curategist in the NFT Tide that, under the passion of the crazy high price of NFT art trade, "Looking forward to a kind of suitable for China's national conditions, in accordance with Chinese cultural taste, for the Chinese masses, everyone can become art lovers and the owner of the trading system... pioneered the development of China's own scientific and technological innovation, combined with China's own aesthetic, to develop" digital yuan "to the popular culture of the people's economic boom, to support the creative talent that throughout China, Forming a real sense of the Chinese Renaissance movement ". Song Ting, Lin Kunhao, Ma Rui and other artists are practitioners of this aspect.