Week11#Final seminar with J.L.

Part I: Instructions for creating an exhibition and peer comments

In this seminar, J.L. talked to us about some elements she hopes to see in our exhibition and our protfolio. For example, when we evaluate the students in the group, we can present more objective problems that we can point out under the existing conditions, whether technical or logical. Secondly, while I am thinking about what content can be evaluated by others, I am also thinking about the visibility of the information that my text can provide. In the words of J.L., it is the visualization of content. So I also revised my own text after class. The content of my exhibition is related to flowers. The complete theme name is: One Flower One World. The theme and vision of the exhibition is to hope that the audience can think more about people in the immersive art audio-visual space created by digital media. The problem of symbiosis with the environment is taken from the perspective of a tiny creature, the flower, as an entrance.

So, I think I can give the perspective of the question raised by the person who commented on me in the following aspects. For example, in what order does she think my exhibitions and works can be presented, and how can the entire space present a scattered and concentrated audio-visual environment? And, in my works, can she think about all things macroscopically from the perspective of flowers and microcosms? Including calls for a sustainable future for the environment.
Third, can my curatorial language be improved? Can you give me some suggestions on expression, or logic.

The following is the promotion text modified by my tutor Jake:

Title of project: 
One Flower: One World 
2. Artist involved: 
Li Zhang; Jingyi; Rij; Hwju 
3. 25-word short description: 
In a mysterious, technological garden, find your own pieces of the environment and discover the secrets of integrating humans and their environment. 
4. 300-500 longer description: 

What are you thinking when you look at a flower? Do flowers ‘see’ you too? Do Bionic Flowers Dream of Electronic Gardens? This exhibition presents the concept of the heart coexisting with flowers. Flowers don’t have the means to express themselves and don’t confine their lives, we should live symbiotically with the environment rather than colonize it. Beautiful plants wield their bodies and in visualizing alternative understandings of flowers, we can reverse perception and create a model which cautions but also–explore the hope and possibility of future biological equality.  One Flower: One World creates a world of flowers, an electronic garden in which the artworks embody the perspective of the environment. Here, we remove the colonization of the environment and flowers, and instead, we bring flowers into the pixel world from an equal perspective. By using digital media technology to build dreams belonging to flowers we can explore the potential consciousness of flowers. We interact with the heart of the flower, and when we touch it, we touch the world, and the surrounding environment is also perceived in new ways. 
In this exhibition, we use the NFT works of the digital garden to leave evidence of “existence”, and everyone will get a different NFT digital garden work, which is also a similar counterproductive effect, each person is unique, and each flower is different. 
“Decolonizing” the world, I hope that we can feel more about nature in those pauses in life, and environmental sustainability requires us to have this awareness first. 

Part II: Searching my exhibition place – Fire engine station

We saw the last exhibitions of students from other majors here, and created a very professional space in the fire station, which also gave me some constructive impressions of this place. We see their works presented through black and white printing, oil painting and hand painting, etc. And in the distribution of the entire exhibition location, we can see that they have carefully designed the exhibition route.

At the same time, I found a “dark room” here that can provide me with projectors and my display screen content. I think this is very helpful for me to create an art space that allows the audience to immerse themselves. At the same time, I will also take advantage of the physical space and equip it with meditative music with narration to create better audio-visual effects.