tian jiang

Video projection, paper shredder, wood box, photo paper

256×12×3 inches (650×30.5×7.6 cm)  

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“Passion for Freedom” London Art Festival 2018 Golden Award, Freedom Ambassador 2018. Exhibited at Royal Opera Arcade Gallery in London, UK. Selected to be part of Fantastic Art China exhibition at Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York;  Currents: Santa Fe International New Media Festival at Santa Fe. Exhibited at Re - exhibition at Flux Factory Gallery in New York；“Passage” Exhibition at Stuart & Co Gallery in Chicago; CICA New Media Art Cenference 2018 & Solo Exhibition at Czong Ho Kim Gallery, CICA Museum, Korea.

Golden Shield Project is a sculptural video installation. The projection-mapped objects consists of a letter size paper shredder and a roll of photo paper. This multi-thematic piece was inspired by a project (known as Great Firewall of China), which is a censorship and surveillance project that blocks potentially unfavorable incoming data from foreign countries. 

This work deals with the issues that network security, data qualification, information control and communication.By projecting the contents of the blocked website on the surface and mosaic moving images on shredded paper, this installation metaphor the process of information loss in both visual and physical way. It explores the uneasy space between projected illusion and material, also it deal with discourse of simulated reality and the relationship between human and society.

Video projection, cardboard, laser paper

200×60×5 cm  

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Selected to be part of 2019 FL3TCH3R Exhibit at Reece Museum at Johnson City, TN, USA

Golden Shield Project series - Blocked Website is a sculptural video installation made with different type of laser paper and cardboard. This multi-thematic piece was inspired by “Golden Shield Project”, the shape of the cardboard was chosen from prohibited website’s logo. The visual illusion of laser paper can be reminiscent of the texture of a magic card or the shiny sequins of a disc and the mosaic in the network, which creates a curious and mysterious visual effect. The "mystery" image from the banned website is flashed back to us on the surface of the paper shell, which is transformed into a form of distortion and illusion .From which the color, shape and information data of the video clips are selected to form a digital information palette to construct the final projection ring.

By projecting the contents of the banned website content video clips back onto their surfaces, this project from the perspective of outsider (outside the Great Firewall internetwork) - who free to see the information and content of the network, which inviting viewers to think about why the same information content is subject to two distinct ways of processing information. Questing the true credibility of the information on these sites and also dealing with the issue  that different social impacts they bring. Date in this project is not only emphasize the specific  blocked signs commemoration, but the current time difference from the time node is a process accumulation of things happening for a long time period. It explores an audio-visual mosaic of our culture, information technology and their survival in today's world.

This project not just the overlay of same objects, but rather different feelings presented from different perspectives (outsider, insider and time) through projected illusion and material. It invited viewer rethink about the relationship between power and society from different perspective of view.

In Progress

NewYorkTimes newspaper, Unity3D, Laser paper

Golden Shield Project series - Hidden Code is AR installation. This multi-thematic piece was inspired by “Golden Shield Project”, which is the Chinese government’s internet censorship and surveillance project. The New York Times newspapers collected here were blocked by the Golden Shield Project. Some well-known news, some rare news, tells the story hidden behind information filtering in a novel and compelling way.

Creating the AR experience involves a complex back-and-forth between 3D and 2D experiences data collection and information restriction. From the perspective of the 2D visual content of the newspaper, by weaving and knitting of the laser paper strip, the visual montage produces a new language and form in un-linear way which reorganizing the information. The visual effect is of an abstraction that the texture of the simulated mosaic reflects double shielding. Among them, the red woven fabric is the information blocked by the United States (represented by trade restrictions), and the silver woven fabric is the information shielded by China. From the 3D virtual perspective, the AR technology shows the hidden stories behind the blocked information in virtual space.

This project allowed viewer use tablet to access a virtual world that based on AR technology, to reflect the dynamic and visual volume of hidden information. It challenge viewers to think the issue of the network security, information control and authenticity of information form different dimension.

Video projection mapping on elevators

Runtime: 00:03:00

32×79 inches (81.3×200 cm)

2019-2023

Video projection, cardboard, laser paper

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Exhibited at El Museo, Buffalo, NY

The Golden Shield Project series - Information Utopia is inspired by the Great Firewall of China, a censorship and surveillance program in which Chinese government blocks potentially unfavorable incoming data from foreign countries.  This multi-thematic piece focuses on the chaotic information that is deconstructed and then reorganized and reborn. In the interstices between virtual and reality, destruction and filtering, there exists a large amount of invisible information intercepted by the Great Firewall, and when they come together, this "information utopia" is formed. Through the weaving of video strips, the video montage produces a new language and restructuring the data with a visual effect that is abstract and mimics the texture of the fabric. By investigating structure as if it were alive, this work highlights the image of "inappropriate" information that is blocked and allows information to be communicated from itself. The screen as a game to explore the multiple possibilities of narrative across the screen. This anarchist collection of data, represents an explosion of information, creating an alienated weave of information and self-iteration.

Video projection, clay

Runtime: 00:01:20

9×9×9 inches (17.8×17.817.8 cm)

Selected to be part of “Images On File” Exhibition at Stuart & Co Gallery in Chicago.

"Shape of Life" is a series of video mapping installation, "Shape of Life — That Building" talk about our daily life which  may normally unimpressive  or people maybe just numb with it. The shape of the clay like people's eyeball and also like the surveillance camera, watching the city and switch the perspective inside out. Showing the outside daily life in a conner indoor to mimic what the surveillance camera's shooting. This piece try to explore the uneasy space between projected illusion and material, also it deal with discourse of simulated reality and the relationship between space and memory.