Hao x Jiji

Background背景

Born in 1992 in Shanghai, Hao studied at Shanghai Jiaotong University from 2011 to 2015 with a major in Art and Design, and then he went to ArtCenter College of Design and earned a degree in Media Design Practices in 2018. Hao has been practicing with various art forms, such as new media interactive installation, website, AR/VR, documentary film, performing art. During his research period in the U.S. in September 2015, He kept exploring the way of integrating art and digital technology that he started in Shanghai. Hao researches and humorously responds to the cultural landscape as a result of the incessant digitization based on the criticism against internet algorithm by Eastern living philosophy and on the synthetic virtual network.

Hao (张昊)，1992年生于上海，2011-2015年就读于上海交通大学艺术设计系，2018年毕业于美国艺术中心的媒体设计实践专业。Hao 的艺术表现横跨新媒体可交互装置，网站，AR/VR，记录影像，表演艺术等数种媒材。2015年9月在美国研习期，他持续探索从上海开始的将艺术与数字科技相结合的创作方法。Hao 以东方的生活哲学和对互联网算法的批评为根基，具像化虚拟的互联网，探讨并幽默的回应因不断数字化产生的人文景观。

Born in 1995, Jiji is an artist based in Shanghai, China. After she received a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design, she lived and worked in New York before moving back to her home in Shanghai. She makes drawings of girls under celestial backgrounds and ceramics with human-morphed-animals. Jiji also makes her art across a broad scope of materials with a focus on electrical engineering. Failed machines, sino-futuristic fantasies, ancient mysteries, and tampered electronics are inspirations to her works. Born and raised in China, she experienced the rapid growth of China’s economy and technology development. She often goes to tech fairs and appreciates the variety of robots designed for coffee making, visitor reception, and cooking. The uprising economy took a hit by the COVID-19 outbreak is another surreal experience for Jiji: the failures and successes of the economy and political structure across continents. The concept of “vanity glamour” exists strongly throughout Jiji’s wearable works, and the feminine presence in technology is a theme ever so important throughout her practices. 

生于1995年的Jiji 是一名位于上海的艺术家。她在罗德岛设计学院毕业以后，在纽约生活工作了一段时间，随后回到了她的家乡上海。她的绘画中有星空背景下的女孩，她捏的陶瓷中有人形动物。Jiji 的作品也运用了广泛的材料并专注于电子工程。她的作品受到了失败的机器，中华未来主义幻想，古老的谜题，以及被篡改的电子产品的启发。生长于中国的她经历了中国经济和科技的飞速发展。Jiji经常去科技博览会领略各种为了制作咖啡，接待宾客，和烹饪而设计的机器人。新冠爆发对正在上升的经济带来的冲击对她来说是另一个超现实的经历：跨越各洲的经济和政治的失败与成功。虚荣又华丽的概念贯穿了俞简的穿戴作品，在她的艺术尝试中，女性主义在科技中的体现一直是⼀个重要的主题。 

Residency Experience 驻地经历

This dual artists residency was concluded with their NFT ART themed exhibition. 

此次双艺术家驻地以NFT 艺术为主题的展览圆满收尾

Hao created a series of NFT websites registered with a blockchain domain name during the residency at No Name Studio. These domain names end up with .crypto. These websites nuanced the ways we experience the internet. He challenged himself and took intervention on famous search engine companies such as Weibo HotSearch and Zhihu ( Chinese Quora). To him, these front pages are pre-made material. There’s one website that your keyboard doesn’t respond to your typing but instead, the artist predefined the message. There’s another website that hosts a data-craving cloud that demands micro user behaviors. Mouse movement is monitored on pixel levels. He hides the special effects when there’s too much data for this cloud. The third website directly altered from Weibo HotSearch.

互联⽹是城市的基础建设也是培育新思维的场所。搜索引擎和社交媒体是我们⽇常⽣活⼈是现实的最前端。在驻地期间，张昊创作了⼀系列作品来探讨⼈与机器，⼈与算法的关系，并以NFC⽹站的形势呈现，以区块链域名注册并以.crypto结尾。他挑战⾃⼰并尝试⽤著名的搜索引擎⽹站进⾏修改，例如微博热搜和知乎。对他⽽⾔，这些⽹站就是现成的制作材料。⽹站⼀：⽤户的键盘输⼊与普通的键盘输⼊规则不同，艺术家定义了输⼊规则与呈现⽅式。⽹站⼆：这个⽹站会拿全部微笑的⽤户⾏为来影响云的变化。⽹站三：艺术家直接改写了现有了微博热搜⾸⻚，并保留了搜索的功能。

Resin panels illuminated by LED beads, plastic sculptures in squiggly forms, paintings telling stories of fictional characters in symbolic gestures, those are the works produced by Jiji during her residency at No.name Studio. Propelled by intuitive gestures, Jiji starts her work on a fresh panel of the canvas, or a pile of untouched clay by making random marks, then she dives into the instinctive compositions that intrigue her the most. One of the most refreshing parts of Jiji’s time in the residency is that she gets to work with chemical materials that she otherwise would not have the resources to do so. Polymorph plastic is a non-toxic material that softens in hot water, and it is extremely friendly for Jiji to quickly build plastic forms that are structurally stable. Jiji also played with modeling clay, took an impression of the clay forms with silicone, and used the silicone mold to cast illustrative forms in colorful resin with pearl pigments.

由LED灯珠点亮的树脂⾯面板，弯曲形态的塑料雕塑，摆着符号性姿态的虚幻人物的油画，这些是Jiji 在No.name Studio驻地期间的作品。从直觉性的表达开始，Jiji在一张空白的画布上，或者是使⽤一块全新的雕塑⽤用泥来创造随机的形状，然后在她喜欢的构图上进⾏更深入的创造。在驻地期间最新鲜的部分是Jiji可以尝试使⽤之前没有机会利用的⼀些化学材料。可塑土是⼀种可以在热水中变软的环保塑料，⾮常适合快速的创造一个稳固的塑料结构。Jiji也尝试使⽤雕塑用泥进⾏创作，并利用硅胶制作模具，最后⽤混合珠光色彩的环氧树脂来进行翻模