Selected student final projects from the China Academy of Art 2020 YOUNG to Young Program Future Tense Class
Future Tense Class – Utilizing 3D Imaging Technology for Conceptual New Media Art Making
Skyscrapers & factories, atomic bombs & TV; robots, drones, the internet, AI; new imaging technologies and the changes they both represent and precipitate have long fascinated artists. Some celebrate the latest innovations as a means to finally realize human potential. Others despair the alienation of mass production, mediation and consumerism. This course looks at the evolving relationship between humans, machines, environments, and art and how the images relating to them are mediated. With writings by futurists and techno utopians and their critics, we will examine the impact of media and technological change on society, the human body, and especially on the visual culture. We will examine works from artists and creatives from the first Machine Age to now, the start of the fourth industrial revolution, including Hito Steyerl, David O’Reily, and Tale of Tales. Class exercises, readings, visits, and projects will be designed to help students to develop critical theoretical foundation and approaches relating to those matters, as well as to build technical skills in digital imaging tools such as basic intro to using post-photographic 3D software such as Maya. Students will create self-driven works that address the course themes.
Course Professor: Professor Snow Yunxue Fu (NYU Tisch)
Assistant Professors: Professor Tongzhou Yu & Professor Zhipeng Wang
Teaching Assistants: Zhixin Chen, Xuyuan Chen, Yulu Wang, and Bixin Yan
For more students' work, please visit the Course Website: futuretense.cargo.site/
Siqi Xie
The story tells that the protagonist Hoo began to try to date a fantasy girlfriend in a virtual world after seeing an advertisement for a virtual dream machine, and indulged in it. When he wakes up from the virtual world, the real world has become a ruin.
In this course, I not only lea...
Zhejun Zhang
The work shows a future world created by artificial intelligence and inorganic biology through Maya and UE4.
What organic life is proud of is nothing more than the coupling and collision of neurons. The great pioneers believed that life was not necessarily limited to organisms, so ...
Zhixin Chen
This is a future society of utopia based on "Brave New World." It is to have you stuck here forever just as a cage or a lock does. All of your stubbornness, romance and thoughts are going to be suffocated here. In my own mental world, I am totally free to dance, to express myself an...
