Masticatory Turbine: Synthesis is a hybrid installation combining mechanical rotation with micro-scale video imagery. The device consists of two jagged rings, driven by bearings and a motor, rotating steadily in opposite directions to form a turbine-like industrial structure. To view the embedded video, viewers must lean in toward the central cavity. The AI-generated video presents…
Masticatory Turbine: Everything is a hybrid installation combining mechanical rotation with micro-scale video imagery. The device consists of two jagged rings, driven by bearings and a motor, rotating steadily in opposite directions to form a turbine-like industrial structure. To view the embedded video, viewers must lean in toward the central cavity. The AI-generated video presents…
Spector’s Ventriloquism: Reproduction simulates a biomimetic anatomical channel, constructed using a coiled spring-brush structure that evokes a serpentine bodily form. A 0.5-inch micro OLED display is embedded at its head, playing a generative AI video sequence. The imagery, designed by the artist, takes the inner pathways of reproductive organs as its conceptual blueprint—foregrounding the biomimetic…
Spector’s Ventriloquism: Digestion constructs a simulated digestive tract using a 0.5-inch OLED micro-display embedded within a stainless steel corrugated conduit and quick-clamp viewing port, forming a bodily channel akin to esophagus, stomach, and intestines. The animation visualizes a looping cycle—swallowing, internal movement, excretion, and re-entry into the mouth—suggesting a closed-circuit digestion. Digestion here becomes a…
Spector’s Ventriloquism: Mutation resembles a mimetic organ—an apparatus where image is hatched through the viewer’s gaze, channeled via a micro eyepiece and embedded lens screen. The visual core is encased within a finned heat-dissipation tube, an industrial structure composed of radiating blades and a hollow metal cylinder, situated somewhere between a cooling system and a…
Spector’s Ventriloquism: Intra-vision is a micro video installation built upon the metaphor of seeing oneself. The viewer peers through a miniature optical probe embedded within a Tri-Clamp corrugated tube, a quick-seal industrial conduit whose polished metal interior evokes a sterilized bodily passage—an organ reshaped by protocols of hygiene and control. The video traces a fictional…
Circular Interface consists of eight custom-built structural units. Each unit is assembled from aluminum profiles and CNC-milled aluminum panels forming a nine-grid framework. The front surface of each panel is precisely engraved with the Chinese character for Like (赞), echoing the ubiquitous Like button across social media. The nine grids are joined by multi-screw aluminum…
Circular Interface consists of eight custom-built structural units. Each unit is assembled from aluminum profiles and CNC-milled aluminum panels forming a nine-grid framework. The front surface of each panel is precisely engraved with the Chinese character for Like (赞), echoing the ubiquitous Like button across social media. The nine grids are joined by multi-screw aluminum…
Circular Interface consists of eight custom-built structural units. Each unit is assembled from aluminum profiles and CNC-milled aluminum panels forming a nine-grid framework. The front surface of each panel is precisely engraved with the Chinese character for Like (赞), echoing the ubiquitous Like button across social media. The nine grids are joined by multi-screw aluminum…
Circular Interface consists of eight custom-built structural units. Each unit is assembled from aluminum profiles and CNC-milled aluminum panels forming a nine-grid framework. The front surface of each panel is precisely engraved with the Chinese character for Like (赞), echoing the ubiquitous Like button across social media. The nine grids are joined by multi-screw aluminum…
Circular Interface consists of eight custom-built structural units. Each unit is assembled from aluminum profiles and CNC-milled aluminum panels forming a nine-grid framework. The front surface of each panel is precisely engraved with the Chinese character for Like (赞), echoing the ubiquitous Like button across social media. The nine grids are joined by multi-screw aluminum…
Circular Interface consists of eight custom-built structural units. Each unit is assembled from aluminum profiles and CNC-milled aluminum panels forming a nine-grid framework. The front surface of each panel is precisely engraved with the Chinese character for Like (赞), echoing the ubiquitous Like button across social media. The nine grids are joined by multi-screw aluminum…
Circular Interface consists of eight custom-built structural units. Each unit is assembled from aluminum profiles and CNC-milled aluminum panels forming a nine-grid framework. The front surface of each panel is precisely engraved with the Chinese character for Like (赞), echoing the ubiquitous Like button across social media. The nine grids are joined by multi-screw aluminum…
Circular Interface consists of eight custom-built structural units. Each unit is assembled from aluminum profiles and CNC-milled aluminum panels forming a nine-grid framework. The front surface of each panel is precisely engraved with the Chinese character for Like (赞), echoing the ubiquitous Like button across social media. The nine grids are joined by multi-screw aluminum…
Isothermal, a term originally rooted in meteorology, has quietly morphed into a psychological metaphor for the technological society. No longer merely referring to the thermodynamic balance of atmospheric flow, it now points to a deeper structural dilemma: how the human body, in an intensely mediatized reality, is assimilated, disciplined, and trapped within a perceptual circuit…
This book is specially published in conjunction with Ding Shiwei’s 2023 solo exhibition The Window at 1000 Press, Hangzhou.
Hunsand Space (Beijing) will present a solo exhibition by Ding Shiwei titled Specter’s Ventriloquism on July 13, 2024.The artist has created five new works using media such as video installations, thermosensitive materials, AI-generated imagery, and simulated flesh, tailored specifically to the unique location and internal spatial structure of the gallery. These works conjure an apocalyptic…
The Window is Ding Shiwei’s latest solo exhibition at 1000 Press in Hangzhou. The exhibition focuses on eight video installations entitled Borderman and an artist’s co-created fiction with ChatGPT, all created by the artist between 2022-2023. The exhibition title The Window not only refers to the display windows of the exhibition space but also to…
In The Trial, the work features an image of OpenAI founder Sam Altman’s eye as the main subject. Under the apocalyptic glow of flames, the eye occasionally sheds a tear. The installation takes the shape of a cross, suspended between two supporting columns and fixed with chains, echoing the crucifixion of Jesus. This piece highlights…
Manifesto Steganography appropriates Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 classic political cartoon Join, or Die. The original cartoon depicted a snake cut into eight segments, each representing a colony, symbolizing the need for unity among the colonies to avoid destruction. In this work, Ding Shiwei transforms the concept of the snake into smoke ducts and uses sixteen 5-inch…
In The Ventriloquism of the Flag, the artist uses thermosensitive fabric to create a black flag lying on the gallery floor. Combined with a heat source device under the floor, the flag slowly reveals the fluorescent green text of the classic slogan Join, or Die from Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 political cartoon. Ding Shiwei explores the…
In Echoes of Specters, Ding Shiwei creates a circular interactive video installation featuring 30 AI-generated simulated arm images produced by ChatGPT-4. When viewers approach the screens, ultrasonic sensors trigger the static arm images to transform into generative AI animations, making the arms flutter like fabric or flags. The installation creates a ghostly plaza where the…
In Anatomy of the Monument, a silver aluminum profile serves as a monument, with one part standing in the center of the gallery and the other lying on the floor. A screen embedded in the structure displays images from The Visible Human project, which viewers can only partially see through a polarized film in a…
Based on the political cartoon Join, or Die published by Benjamin Franklin in 1754, the artist presents eight segments of a severed cursor-path-body, each pointing to a modern dilemma of being colonized in the face of screen vortex and techno-politics. At the two ends of the installation are a translucent screen pierced by a sliding,…
Gallery Vacancy is pleased to announce Ding Shiwei’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, Faith on Tap, on view from November 6 to December 18, 2021. Presenting a new body of installation work, Faith on Tap expands on the artist’s prolonged engagement with the medium of the screen to illuminate the exacerbating integration of electronic…
Enter The Void is Ding Shiwei’s latest project at Imagokinetics lab. Its Chinese title [随机预言] ①invokes the concept of cryptology, which is a function mapping each possible query to a (fixed) random response from its output domain. The English title Enter The Void ② is inspired by the same titled movie by Argentinean director Gaspar…
We are pleased to announce the opening of Ding Shiwei Solo Exhibition at 4 p.m. on March 9, 2019 at One Way Art Gallery. Curated by Feng Xi, the exhibition presents Ding Shiwei’s latest works completed in a creation cycle of two years. The layout of the exhibition centers the central axis of the gallery,…
Ding Shiwei’s project?Meteor Sonata?will be shown in Tuinzaal Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Holland. The invitation-only exhibition by Holland Animation Film Festival (HAFF) is curated by Gerben Schermer, and is open from 16-20, March. Every year HAFF presents Expanding Animation, a program devoted to animated installations. The combination of the possibilities of animation film and three-dimensional art…
The Borderman series reuses screens from VR headsets and incorporates eye footage either filmed by the artist or produced in 3D animation. The work explores the profound intervention of digital media in individual lived experience, offering a prophetic vision of a Frankensteinian future species. The eyes embedded within the screens command the viewer’s attention and…
The Borderman series reuses screens from VR headsets and incorporates eye footage either filmed by the artist or produced in 3D animation. The work explores the profound intervention of digital media in individual lived experience, offering a prophetic vision of a Frankensteinian future species. The eyes embedded within the screens command the viewer’s attention and…
The Borderman series reuses screens from VR headsets and incorporates eye footage either filmed by the artist or produced in 3D animation. The work explores the profound intervention of digital media in individual lived experience, offering a prophetic vision of a Frankensteinian future species. The eyes embedded within the screens command the viewer’s attention and…
The Borderman series reuses screens from VR headsets and incorporates eye footage either filmed by the artist or produced in 3D animation. The work explores the profound intervention of digital media in individual lived experience, offering a prophetic vision of a Frankensteinian future species. The eyes embedded within the screens command the viewer’s attention and…
The Borderman series reuses screens from VR headsets and incorporates eye footage either filmed by the artist or produced in 3D animation. The work explores the profound intervention of digital media in individual lived experience, offering a prophetic vision of a Frankensteinian future species. The eyes embedded within the screens command the viewer’s attention and…
The Borderman series reuses screens from VR headsets and incorporates eye footage either filmed by the artist or produced in 3D animation. The work explores the profound intervention of digital media in individual lived experience, offering a prophetic vision of a Frankensteinian future species. The eyes embedded within the screens command the viewer’s attention and…
The Borderman series reuses screens from VR headsets and incorporates eye footage either filmed by the artist or produced in 3D animation. The work explores the profound intervention of digital media in individual lived experience, offering a prophetic vision of a Frankensteinian future species. The eyes embedded within the screens command the viewer’s attention and…
The Borderman series reuses screens from VR headsets and incorporates eye footage either filmed by the artist or produced in 3D animation. The work explores the profound intervention of digital media in individual lived experience, offering a prophetic vision of a Frankensteinian future species. The eyes embedded within the screens command the viewer’s attention and…
This book is specially published in conjunction with Ding Shiwei’s 2016 solo exhibition Ding Shiwei: Daybreak at Beijing Art Now Gallery, jointly produced by Beijing Art Now Gallery and Ding Shiwei Studio.
A spinning waiting cursor The Spinning Wheel of Death intrudes into the real space and floats between the broken concrete columns of the gallery. It appears in ruins destructively and waits in a breakdown way. At the moment, the seesaw battle between reality and virtuality continues quietly in its silent spinning.
Five OLED screens are immersed in the five curved acrylic tubes, continuously displaying parts of human skin and the scratches on the inflamed skin wherever the virtual cursor goes. The words were taken from a smartphone powering-up slogan Hello, a social media company ad Dive into Anything, a revolutionary slogan in squares Join or Die,…
A static sculpture stands atop a pixel-shaped blue screen. One end of the curved black PVC bend is the swipe gesture under the user’s dimension-reduced avatar, and the other end is a cursor arrow with a stainless-steel texture. In this sculpture, the cursor arrow evolves from pixelated jaggedness into a harmful sharp dagger. The black…
A static sculpture stands atop a pixel-shaped blue screen. One end of the curved black PVC bend is the mouse control gesture under the user’s dimension-reduced avatar, and the other end is a cursor arrow with a stainless-steel texture. In this sculpture, the cursor arrow evolves from pixelated jaggedness into a harmful sharp dagger. The…
A curved black PVC bend shuttles through the walls and corners of the space. One end is the swipe gesture under the user’s dimension-reduced avatar, and the other end is a flat cursor arrow. The black bend is both the user’s dimension-reduced body (arm) and also the path of the screen operation interface.
A static sculpture stands atop a pixel-shaped blue screen. One end of the curved black PVC bend is a fist to show protest under the user’s dimension-reduced avatar, and the other end is a flat cursor arrow. The black bend is both the user’s dimension-reduced body (arm) and also the path of the screen operation…
A static sculpture stands atop a pixel-shaped blue screen. One end of the curved black PVC bend is the mouse control gesture under the user’s dimension-reduced avatar, and the other end is a cursor arrow with stainless steel texture. In this sculpture, the cursor arrow does not have the pixel-like sawtooth, but becomes a harmful…
A static sculpture stands atop a pixel-shaped blue screen. One end of the curved black PVC bend is the swipe gesture under the user’s dimension-reduced avatar, and the other end is a flat cursor hand. The black bend is both the user’s dimension-reduced body (arm) and also the path of the screen operation interface.
A static sculpture stands atop a pixel-shaped blue screen. One end of the curved black PVC bend is a fist to show protest under the user’s dimension-reduced avatar, and the other end is a flat cursor arrow. The black bend is both the user’s dimension-reduced body (arm) and also the path of the screen operation…
A cursor pointer that is controlled by a machine with a horizontal and vertical track moves on the white screen, on which contents are only visible within the cursor area. The visible contents of the videos are parts of collaged, life-sized heads, and the cracked figures are the projection of the tired faces of the…
A cursor arrow that is controlled by a machine with a horizontal and vertical track moves on the white LCD screen, on which contents are only visible within the cursor area. These visible video shards reflect the fragments of seven-deadly-sin human desires. The cross-shaped industrial track moves constantly, providing an established algorithm path for viewers…
The screen is the flag, and the flag is the screen. A collapsed LED screen-flag lies on the ground, circularly displaying the slogans borrowed from social media company slogans, revolutionary slogans, and technical reflection treatises, each with a word in it as a staging post for the next. Therefore, dozens of these slogans have formed…
The screen is the flag, and the flag is the screen. The 7.8-inch flexible curved display is slightly raised by the blower behind it and becomes a waving blue flag. The words TOMORROW elaborately carved on the acrylic and the emojis on the blue screen-flag indicate that the screen will become an integrated carrier of…
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