{"id":4947,"date":"2022-09-13T06:31:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T06:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-blog-lb-526867726.eu-central-1.elb.amazonaws.com\/?p=5003"},"modified":"2022-09-13T08:33:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T08:33:08","slug":"shi-zheng-the-screen-as-a-membrane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.niio.com\/blog\/shi-zheng-the-screen-as-a-membrane\/","title":{"rendered":"Shi Zheng: the screen as a membrane"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Shi Zheng<\/a> is a multidisciplinary artist based in Shanghai and New York. Shi Zheng\u2019s works range from audio-visual installations and digital music to live performances. The artist\u2019s body of work explores the overlapping space between the real and the virtual by creating immersive spaces, which resonate as meditative spiritual experiences. In turn, these perceptual experiences created by Shi Zheng open up spaces for deep introspection.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Shi Zheng\u2019s two newly commissioned artworks<\/a> by Niio expose the artist\u2019s ongoing interest in technology, machine vision, digital voyage and \u2018latent time\u2019. Marvelous Cloud #1<\/a><\/em> and Marvelous Cloud #2<\/a><\/em> are part of Shi Zheng\u2019s ongoing Nimbus <\/em>series, which he started working on in 2015. Nimbus is defined as a cloud, an aura, or an atmosphere. In Latin \u2018nimbus\u2019 refers to a dark cloud. In Shi Zheng\u2019s works, the clouds are made visible by light, which instills in them a sense of aura of gaseous floating. The Nimbus series represents the artist\u2019s construction of virtual realities where virtual clouds live inside of the screen space, thus setting his viewers into imagined virtual spaces that mimic reality. However, here, the reality is entirely generated from virtual cameras of computer programs and noise algorithms. Ultimately, the viewer is able to experience the virtual landscape that computers share with human eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shi Zheng\u2019s works have been exhibited at a wide range of galleries, museums and institutions including TANK Shanghai, MOCA Yinchuan, Ars Electronica, and Institute of Contemporary Arts London. In 2013, Shi Zheng, together with Nenghuo, Wang Zhipeng, and Weng Wei, founded the artistic new media art group RMBit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In your works, through computer technology, you explore the possibility to extend your viewer\u2019s audio and visual experience. Could you elaborate on this process and the anticipated result of the interaction with your artworks?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my Audio-Visual installations, I’ve always thought that sound and image are the two sides of one being. They are intertwined and can’t be separated from each other. In these works, there is no discernible narrative. I did not intend to let the work convey a specific message or language. Instead, sound and image as two different materials, are presented to create a purely perceptual environment. So in my work, I hope to create an immersive space in which the viewer can generate thoughts through their experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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