ARY-YUE HUANG黄 钺
Return to the Peach Blossom Wonderland
2021
3 Channel Video
Style Transfer Algorithm
3 Channel Video
Style Transfer Algorithm
In an ancient Chinese fable, The Peach Blossom Spring (桃花源記) , a utopian world is described as having “neatly arranged houses (屋舍儼然) ”.
Looking at a China modernized, are we back in such a wonderland, or is this high-speed train impelling us to somewhere else?
In creating this work, I employed a Style Transfer Algorithm to replace extensive hand-drawn labor, inadvertently uncovering machine learning's traits of infinite generation and unstable aesthetics. To some extent, it manifests as a derivative of modernity—the specter of productivist modernism haunting machine learning's application to content production echoes the modernist architecture of urban landscapes. The video adopts a tripartite structure, with similar opening and concluding segments across each section, as the work's essence lies in world-building: a perpetual cinema of infinite becoming.
