Yiwen Tang
Contemporary Art Practice MA
Royal College of Art
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Digital Arts / Animation / Sound Art
My location: Shanghai, China
Yiwen Tang
First Name: Yiwen
Last Name: Tang
University / College: Royal College of Art
Course / Program: Contemporary Art Practice MA
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Digital Arts / Animation / Sound Art
My Location: Shanghai, China
About
Yiwen TANG, based in Shanghai China, is a digital artist focusing on animation, photography, sound experiment, and installation art. Based on her undergraduate background in mathematics and other scientific disciplines, such as chemistry, biophysics and computer, TANG always intends to apply her mathematical thinking and the study in sociology and philosophy to interpret and analyze her own perceptions about this society. What's more, TANG loves trying to reach out different media for expression, such as moving images, wearable machinery, JavaScript programming, 3D modelling using virtual cameras and so on, to detailedly present the parts that every subject intends to convey. Through organically unifying multiple media symbols in together, TANG prefers to incorporate them into realities to show their inconformity, and to rebuild a bridge between “reality” and “simulation”. TANG is eager to enrich the bidirectional spiritual communications, transformations, and fusions between self and others and to construct further critical interactions between the public and the reality they uniquely perceive.
"Fatigue and Misery in the Gap of Reality; Desires not Found in the World of Unexpectance; Gods and Ghosts of Déjà Vu Floating Aimlessly; They Shouldn't Exist, but They're Everywhere." SAṂVṚTI is a term from Sanskrit used to designate the phenomena, concepts, and understanding associated with unenlightened, ordinary beings. In this 5-minute animation, I mainly outline the electronization of religions in the age of science and technology, and transition of religions’ essence from self-cultivation and spiritual comfort to a synonymous of public interest or personal desire under the influence of contemporary social ideology through social media. Inspired from Chinese Buddhism and Taoism, 6 main scenes from digital temple to heaven are created through 3D modeling together with 3 characters--prayers, monks, and the god "HONG". This animation demonstrates an electronic channel in this post cyber age from the desires of prayers to the birth and death of gods. In this cyber virtual world, the wishes and desires from prayers will be transmitted to the nurturing capsule as nourishments for the creation of gods. The God is no longer unique and supreme existence but the product of human’s desire. However, as the gods can be created, they will also die and disappear. Every time the God fulfil a wish, he will absorb the desire hidden in wished and his own life will be consumed. Once the life has been exhausted, the God will die with the spreading of the desire he absorbed. These desires will go back to the conventional world as the nourishment for the next reserve God. In this way, an endless cycle is formed.
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