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▟ HyperBody Chungking, mixed reality installation, Chongqing, China, 2019

"重慶超體"

▟ HyperBody Rave, mixed reality installation, Beijing, China, 2019

"超銳舞"

♡ Courtesy of the artist, Mingxuan Xie, Digital Earth Fellowship, Dimensions Art Center, and I: project space

▛ Hyper Bedouin Tent, mixed reality installation, Jerusalem, Israel, 2019

"超鏈接貝都因人營地"

♡ Courtesy of the artist, Mingxuan Xie, Hadas Zucker, and Jerusalem Design Week

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HyperBody Extra: A Skin Workshop, Screen recording, London, 2019

超体皮肤工作坊，录屏，伦敦，2019

for Hamlet exhibition: I: project space | Antonie Angerer & Anna Eschbach Breakfast on Ani Schulze

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Summer Archive, film, with Cactus Liu and Heyou, Beijing, 2019

月坛，影片，与刘雨潇和何悠合作，北京，2019

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Titan Cow’s Body, Unfolded texture, Hangzhou, 2019 (Optimised by Mingxuan Xie)

泰坦神牛的身体，贴图，杭州，2019

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Binbin’s Hyper Body, Digital painting on iPad, Shanghai, 2019

刘彬彬物欲横流的身体，iPad 数码涂画，上海，2019

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Chungking HyperBody Demo, Video, Chongqing, 2019

The research is undertaken by art and architectural practice and seeks to provide a definition of ‘HyperBody’: a hybrid of architecture, anatomy, anthropology and game.

It investigated three specific geographic locations in China that each presents a specific type of excess: The Hyper-religious Body in the Dunhuang Caves, Gansu Province, the Hyper-sexual Body in Beijing, and the Hyper-gastronomical Body in Chongqing. Each offers an expansion of the maximalism research approach, based on visual excess. By conducting field work at these sites, we tried to redefine the spaces around and beyond the human body in order to ultimately lead to the ‘HyperBody’ – a multi-reality architectural space that mediates between the physical and virtual spheres. We built on the knowledge of the bridges and interstices between architecture and the internet, as well as the creation of digital game spaces, by consulting digital anthropologists and also architectural and design theorists.

Press Release: http://chongqingdac.org/article/page?id=276  

Terms:

Techno-Orientalism of new media representations supports the encounter of technological and cultural productions specifically within an Asian framework and expand the effect of schizophrenic significations of anime, comic and games.

Hyperisation is a process of hybridising non-homogeneous physical and virtual spaces.

Gamification is to apply multiple game culture into physical context and vice versa in order to accelerate the dissolution of physical and virtual spaces.

Referring to the etymology of index (forefinger) and digital (finger), indexicality in digital anthropology informs multiple bodies should re-create a more advanced understanding of game space.

Research Questions:

1. How can post-humanism and techno-Orientalism contribute to a better definition of maximalism in art and architecture?

2. How can a hybrid of pictorial space, architectural space and game engine technology inform a better understanding of hyperisation and gamification?

3. How can VR (virtual reality) and AR (augmented reality) technology better inform an understanding of body without organs i.e. HyperBody?

Methodology:

The project takes a number of anthropological, architectural, new media (anime, comic and games) and body materials to remix, recreate and rediscover as the subject for, as well as context of, the research. It will use multiple media starting with drawing and painting before extending to 3D scan, VR filming, painting and game design. This non-hegemonic conglomerate below crosses over from the academic sphere to everyday scenarios and encompasses various subcultures.

Practice:

HyperBody II: The Hyper Anuttara and the Anatomy of Techno-Sexual Power, 10th. November, 2018 – 1st. December, 2018, Minority Space, Beijing, China

HyperBody III: The HyperFeast of Chungking Cannibalism Hotpot, 20th. January, 2019 – 24th. January, 2019, Dimensions Art Centre, Chongqing, China

The HyperFeast of Chungking Cannibalism Hotpot is a ‘multi-reality spatial experiment’ both for the research output of the third field study site in Chongqing and a more comprehensive assemblage of art and architectural work-in-progress under the Digital Earth theoretical framework since October, 2018. This experiment includes 4 physical levels and 7 virtual levels intersected together that encourages audiences to scan, paint and eat during the event.

It includes:

Physical Level 1: Green / Physical Level 2: Orange / Physical Level 3: Pink / Physical Level 4: Red

Virtual Level 1: Rubic’s Cube Mansion / Virtual Level 2: Parallel Cave / Virtual Level 3: 465 Cave / Virtual Level 3.5: Underwater Lama Temple / Virtual Level 4: Anatomy of Embryonic Sexual Power / Virtual Level 5: Ba&Shu Binary Star HyperBody: Hashashin / Virtual Level 6: Ba&Shu Binary Star HyperBody: Shun / Virtual Level 6.5: HyperFeast of Chungking Cannibalism Hotpot

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Thrilled to fly tomorrow to Salvador de Bahia 🇧🇷 for my residency with the Goethe Institute, where I will continue with my Digital Earth project, somewhere else in the Global South. #Videobrasil #digitalart #DigitalEarth #Repost from @goethe.bahia ... A temporada de 2019 do Programa de Residência Artística Vila Sul do Goethe-Institut Salvador-Bahia vai começar. Cinco residentes chegam em janeiro à capital baiana para, durante dois meses, vivenciar a rotina da cidade, interagir com suas práticas e agentes culturais, sendo instalados em apartamentos construídos no último andar da sede do instituto, contando com toda sua estrutura física e articulações locais. O grupo é formado pelo artista visual Emo de Medeiros (Benin) - @emo.demedeiros.5, pela saxofonista e compositora Ida Toninato (Canadá) - @idatoninato, pelo compositor e músico Neo Muyanga (África do Sul) e pela dupla de artistas de quadrinhos e música Tine Fetz - @tinefetz e Nick Jongen - @nikejoggen (Alemanha/Holanda). Oficialmente inaugurada em novembro de 2016, a Vila Sul é a terceira residência artística no âmbito geral das 159 unidades do Goethe-Institut existentes no planeta, e primeira e única da rede no “sul global”, abaixo da Linha do Equador. A sua proposta é fortalecer interlocuções entre o Brasil e demais países do hemisfério Sul a partir da presença de artistas de todo o mundo, genuinamente interessados em perspectivas sociopolíticas e culturais desta metade do planeta. Entre 2016 e 2018, 63 artistas e agentes culturais já experimentaram esta oportunidade. https://www.instagram.com/p/BtJ7cC0n78q/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1cn87mxeb8ccn

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Saint Seiya: Shun, digital painting, Chongqing, 2018

瞬，数码涂画，重庆，2018