Identical Stage
Modern people have lost their identity and turned to an identical collective framework.
This work stems from my unease about the current environment and my identity. I feel being controlled by everything happening around me gradually. We are mastered by big data algorithms and isolated from the real natural world. People incline to be assimilative but no longer the unique carriers of their own culture, and the Internet has accelerated this global assimilation. We abandoned the respect for nature and fell into the postmodern world we created, then eventually turned into similar codes. I feel it’s something wrong, but I can not escape.
With the development of human civilization, nowadays, culture and religion have been presented in a new strange way. From cognizing the world with symbols to being swallowed up by symbols, I linked the symbols and the Chinese and Western creation myths, as well as the fables about "being" and "truth" with contemporary existentialism and consumerism. Meanwhile, I also put the consideration of my female identity into this context.
The recurring images of numbers, eyes, black figures and hands in this zine are symbolic metaphors about different identities, reflects my suspicion of the government and capital ‘gazing’ us by mastering big data, and the concerns about the destructive force of artificial intelligence development on human culture, also depicts the struggle between my absence and existence in this stage.
现代人类失去了自己的身份，转向了一个集体性的相似框架中。
这个项目源于我对于当下环境和自己身份的不安，我感到自己逐渐被周围所发生的一切所控制，我们被大数据算法控制，被与真实的自然世界相隔离。我们不再是各自文化的独特载体而普遍趋于同一化，网络加速了这种全球化和同一化，我们摒弃了人类的对大自然的崇敬，而陷入我们自己创造的后现代主义世界中，最终变成相似的代码。我感知到了这是不对的，却无法逃离。
人类文明发展到了今天，文化、宗教都被以一种全新的陌生方式呈现出来。从以符号认知世界到被符号吞噬，我把这些符号与中西方的创世神话，以及关于“存在”与“真理”的寓言故事和现代人类的存在主义、消费主义相对接，同时代入自己女性身份在当下环境中的思考。
书中反复出现的数字，眼睛，和黑色的人影和手，是关于不同身份的象征性隐喻，反映了我对于政府和资本通过掌握大数据“凝视”我们的怀疑，对于人工智能发展对人类文化破坏力的担忧，对于自己在世界上的缺席和存在之间的挣扎。
