感知物之灵性:“齐物等观——国际新媒体艺术三年展”展览回顾

Perceiving Anima of Things:A Retrospective Review of "Thingworld:International Triennial of New Media Art"

中国美术馆于2014年举办的"齐物等观——国际新媒体艺术三年展".试图通过来自全球的新媒体艺术家的作品,来引发有关平等对待世界之"物"的中国传统观念的反思。本文则从观者的角度回顾这次展览的精彩作品,并发掘出这次展览所呈现的国际新媒体艺术潮流中的前沿话题,即环境生态艺术,以及艺术家凸显机器的主体性和自主性的尝试。总体上,这次展览所传达的正视人与技术之物间的关系,并试图尊重和感知物之灵性的倾向,为化解由技术引发的社会、伦理、政治等方面的危机提供了观念依据。

'Thingworld:International Triennial of New Media Art' held at the National Art Museum of China in 2014 attempts to use the works of new media artists around the globe to induce the reflection on the traditional Chinese concept of equal treatment of the 'things' of the world.This essay reviews the excellent works of this exhibition from a spectator's perspective,and discusses environmental and ecological art,a cutting-edge topic in the trend of international new media art presented in this exhibition,as well as the artists' attempt to highlight machines' subject position and autonomy.Generally speaking,the tendency shown in this exhibition of facing up to the relationship between man and technological things,and attempting to respect and perceive the anima of things,provides a conceptual basis for the solution of the technology-induced social,moral and political crises.