「新世代游戏New Generation Games」铭文新展

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• 文章标题：「新世代游戏New Generation Games」铭文新展
• 发表日期：2024-07-20 16:36
• 原文链接：https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/w4WV5aRF-1EUwl9LqD96Gg

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面对“新世代游戏”这个展览，或许有人会问：“线上虚拟展览或者加密艺术的展览还有必要吗？或者还有未来吗？”这也正是我和我的团队在组织这次展览的过程中所面对的问题。

时间不妨向前推移，2021年，我与赤金美术馆的发起人，同时也是长期专注于加密艺术领域的艺术家刘嘉颖合作了“跳出三界外，不在五行中”和“内啡肽”两次线上的加密艺术展览。这两个展览的主题可以透露出当时我们对于加密艺术或者线上展览的模糊认知：其一，虚拟是现实的镜像，来自于现实却又不属于现实；其二，加密艺术区别于以往艺术的不仅仅是虚拟状态还有其背后的运作模式。当然，不得不说的是这两个展览有其当时特殊的时代语境：其一，在特殊时期的线上展览呈现出爆发状态，艺术界出现了面貌不同的线上展览，当时赤金美术馆这样的虚拟美术馆提供了线上展览的一种可能性；其二，那时全球范围内正值加密艺术爆发式增长时期，加密艺术也一度成为当时艺术界的热门话题。

时隔三年，时过境迁，在人工智能、AI大模型等技术迅猛发展的新浪潮下，我们迎来了一个全新的艺术创作和体验时代，于是便有了这次“新世代游戏”展览。

“新世代游戏”这一主题很明确由“新世代”和“游戏”构成，“新世代”在此之前泛指中国八十年代的一批被称之为“第三代诗人”的群体，“新世代”与“新生代”这样的语汇出现在那个时代预示着某种新浪潮的到来。

在今天随着“Z世代”等概念的出现，一代代人总会出现不同的对于“新”的憧憬与概括，“新世代”这一概念也出现在艺术、商业等领域，本次展览中的“新世代”所针对的是艺术创作中的“数字原住民”这一代人。2019年，我在合美术馆策划了“开合未来”这个以艺术和科技关系为主题的展览，其中涉及的一个群体便是“新世代游戏”展览的这个群体，他们大多来自美术学院的新媒体或者数字艺术学科中，与之前的艺术家不同，他们一开始就面对数字语境，本次“新世代游戏”所呈现的艺术家大多都是这样的专业背景，同时他们也是早早实现了数字化生存的一代人。

此外便是“游戏”，游戏涉及艺术产生的本质来源。荷兰历史学家赫伊津哈在他的《游戏的人》认为“游戏”的本质：它不是“平常”的生活或“真实”的生活，而走出了“真实”的生活，暂时迈进一片完全由其支配的活动领域，游戏中人们可以达到创造力的巅峰。游戏作为一种幸福的引擎，承载着玩家们自由创作的意志和重构现实的理想，所以“游戏”正在成为新世代艺术家的艺术观，其自由性、创造性与互动性等特质成为艺术家表达思想和探索世界的重要途径。而在更大的非艺术语境中，2000年以来随着互联网的高速发展，游戏的更新迭代速度令人不可思议，互联网游戏某种程度上就是一个社会公共空间，而虚拟技术，以及人们对于虚拟的想象带来了游戏和元宇宙等新技术的结合。所以我们不得不重新思考，艺术在未来的终极形态会不会是一场游戏？

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本次展览共邀请了26位新世代艺术家于线上的Topbidder Artbyss (Voxels) 展馆展出，场馆独特的克苏鲁风格本身就带有很强的游戏性，而艺术家应用算法、人工智能等新技术创作的不同形式的作品不仅呈现出对未来科技、自然和社会关系的思考与探索，同时与场馆共同了构成一个沉浸式的虚拟世界，成为一个基于互联网与观众共同体验的互动游戏。

展览“新世代游戏“希望在人工智能生成时代的生态下，通过“游戏”探寻深度结合现实世界的可能，同时期待在一个技术爆炸的时代来临，在虚拟与现实、技术与艺术的交汇处，共同见证新世代艺术家的无限可能。

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Foreword

Facing the "New Generation Games" exhibition, one might ask: "Are online virtual exhibitions or Crypto Art exhibitions still necessary, or do they have a future?" This question is precisely what my team and I confronted during the organization of this exhibition. Let us take a step back to 2021, when I collaborated with Liu Jiaying, the founder of ChiJin Art Museum and an artist deeply involved in the Crypto Art field, on two online Crypto Art exhibitions: "NOT HERE, NOT THERE" and "ENDORPHIN." The themes of these two exhibitions hinted at our then-ambiguous understanding of Crypto Art and online exhibitions: firstly, the virtual is a mirror of reality, stemming from reality yet not belonging to it; secondly, Crypto Art is distinguished from previous art forms not only by its virtual nature but also by its underlying operational mode. It is also worth mentioning that these two exhibitions had their unique historical context: firstly, during a special period, online exhibitions experienced a boom, and various forms of online exhibitions emerged in the art world. Virtual museums like ChiJin Art Museum provided a possibility for online exhibitions. Secondly, that period witnessed an explosive growth in Crypto Art globally, making it a hot topic in the art world. Three years later, with the rapid development of technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and AI Large Models, we have entered a new era of artistic creation and experience, leading to the "New Generation Games" exhibition.

The theme "New Generation Games" is composed of "New Generation" and "Games." Previously, "New Generation" referred to a group of poets from the 1980s in China known as the "Third Generation Poets." The emergence of terms like "New Generation" and "New Youth" in that era heralded a new wave. Today, with concepts such as "Generation Z," each generation inevitably harbors different aspirations and definitions of the "New." The term "New Generation" also appears in fields like art and commerce. In this exhibition, "New Generation" refers to the generation of "Digital Natives" in artistic creation. In 2019, I curated an exhibition at United Art Museum titled "Undefined Future," which explored the relationship between art and technology. One of the groups involved was the same group featured in the "New Generation Games" exhibition. Most of them come from New Media or Digital Art disciplines in art academies. Unlike previous artists, they have faced a digital context from the start. The artists presented in this exhibition mostly have such professional backgrounds and are a generation that has realized digital existence early on.

Furthermore, "Games" pertain to the essential origin of art creation. Dutch historian Johan Huizinga, in his book "Homo Ludens," argues that the essence of "games" is not part of "ordinary" or "real" life but steps out of "real" life into a domain entirely governed by its activities. In games, people can reach the pinnacle of creativity. As an engine of happiness, games carry the players' will for free creation and the ideal of reconstructing reality. Therefore, "games" are becoming an artistic vision for new generation artists. Their characteristics of freedom, creativity, and interactivity become important avenues for artists to express thoughts and explore the world. In a broader non-artistic context, since 2000, with the rapid development of the internet, the iteration speed of games has been astonishing. Internet games, to some extent, represent a public social space. Virtual technology and the imagination of the virtual have brought about the integration of games and new technologies like the Metaverse. Hence, we must rethink whether the ultimate form of art in the future could be a game. This exhibition invites 26 new generation artists to exhibit at the online TOPBIDDER ARTBYSS venue. The venue's unique Cthulhu style itself carries a strong sense of playfulness, and the artists' works, created using Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, and other new technologies, present reflections and explorations of future technology, nature, and social relationships. Together with the venue, they form an immersive virtual world, becoming an interactive game based on the internet experience shared with the audience.

The "New Generation Games" exhibition aims to explore the possibilities of deeply integrating the real world through "games" in the era of AI-generated ecosystems. It also hopes to witness the infinite possibilities of new generation artists at the intersection of virtual and reality, technology and art, as we enter an era of technological explosion.

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