X虚拟孵化器
X Virtual Incubator
xmuseum.org/xvirtual
策展人：吴冬雪，强家栋
Co-curated by Poppy Dongxue Wu and Pete Jiadong Qiang
2022.08.16 全面上线
Available Everywhere 2022.08.16
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艺术家 Artists
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艺术家 Artists
金·劳顿 Kim Laughton
加布里埃尔·马桑 Gabriel Massan
孙羽茜 CheeseTalk
王长存 ayrtbh
X虚拟是一个为艺术爱好者和创意实践者提供3D聚会的线上平台，由艺术家创作的多个虚拟世界的集合。作为X虚拟的首个项目，X虚拟孵化器提供第一人称视角来探索新的数字艺术委任。该项目是项目团队对虚拟环境和线上展览进行的为期两年研究的结果。项目汇集了四位工作于中国、英国和巴西的艺术家，在当下正处于萌生阶段的虚拟艺术网络语境中，他们的实践引发着新的方法论原型。
X Virtual Incubator is the inaugural project of X Virtual - an assemblage of virtual worlds that provides 3D meet-ups for art enthusiasts and creative intellectuals. The project provides first-person exploration of new digital art commissions and is a result of the project team’s 2-year research on virtual environments and online exhibitions. X Virtual Incubator brings together four artists working across China, the UK, and Brazil, whose practices spark new methodological archetypes for the impending network of virtual art.
在全球范围内，对于智慧空间网来临的畅想促使新的数字基础设施得以开始部署。于此同时，艺术从业者则受到元宇宙最古老的先驱——大型多人在线游戏（MMOs）的启发。随着游戏引擎成为游戏行业之外的常用工具，从数字雕塑和视听空间到表演和独立游戏，更广泛的艺术家群体开始使用游戏引擎创作各种作品。虚拟创作环境催生出了新的艺术生产协议，这些新的模式正在重新配置着现有的文化和技术的交涉界面，并且在早前由“物理-虚拟对立”而建构出的扩展领域中激起了新的分支。从建造一座矗立在沙漠中的怪诞考古庙宇，到一系列内部关联的、由暴力和自由为线索贯穿而成的虚拟世界，展览中的艺术家们将虚构的文明、移民历史和洲际地缘政治编织成离经荒诞的网络现实，在艺术和技术之间铺设幻想之地。
The speculative future of The Spatial Web prompts the deployment of new digital infrastructure on a global scale whilst art practitioners enlightening by the oldest pioneer of the metaverse - massively multiplayer online games (MMOs). With the game engine becoming a prominent tool beyond the gaming industry, a broader group of artists started to create various works ranging from digital sculpture and audio-visual space to performance and indie games. This new protocol of art production in the virtual context has reconfigured the existing cultural and technological interface, spiking new branches in the expanded field previously framed by physical-virtual division. From the construction of an eerie archaeological temple standing in an untrodden desert to a series of intra-related virtual worlds conceptually threaded by violence and freedom, the artists in the show weave fictional civilisation, immigration histories and cross-continent geopolitics into uncanny cyberrealities, extending new territories between art and technology.
X虚拟孵化器项目通过委任艺术家在X虚拟的在线社区直接进行创作，深入探讨虚拟环境中的空间性及其相关的多重内涵。从散落在一个冥想式的极简空间周围的算法音乐片段，到未来变异赛博格的虚构管理机构和AI聊天机器人，展览中的艺术家们设想了新形式的空间视听体验、数字物品残影，以及由赛博格的加速发展而带来的，具有意识的突变体等潜在伦理问题。X虚拟孵化器以跨学科的尝试为基础，通过文本、声音、视频、场景、AI聊天机器人和独立游戏，颠覆并重新认识数字艺术、虚拟空间和电子游戏之间错综复杂的网络。
The project delves into spatiality and its multiple connotations in the virtual environment by commissioning artists to work primarily on X Virtual’s online community. From algorithmic music clips scattered around a meditative and boundless virtual space to AI chatbots in a fictional agency for hybrid cyborgs, the artists in the show envision new forms of audio-visual experience, after-image of the digital object, as well as potential sentient mutants brought by the accelerated development of cyborgs. X Virtual Incubator grounds interdisciplinary attempts that destabilise and re-envision the intricate web between digital art, virtual space and video game through text, sound, video, scene, AI chatbot and indie games.
该项目所对应的实体展览将于2022年9月起在北京X美术馆呈现，展览将带来两个沉浸式装置。通过线下参与，艺术家和观众将激活并不事先存在于线上虚拟世界中的更多含义。该项目与Silicon Valet战略合作。
A physical showcase of the project, including two immersive installations will be on view from September 2022 at X Museum in Beijing. With offline participation, new meanings that do not pre-exist in the online virtual worlds will be generated by artists and audiences. The project is in strategic partnership with Silicon Valet.
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