The Today Art Museum in Beijing has launched an unparalleled
exhibition that combines physical and virtual reality to produce an augmented
reality in which human sensorial presence and technology are codependent.
The Future of Today:
Imaginary Future, the inaugural exhibition for the Future Gallery Project, is
a tech-heavy, future-oriented exhibition from the perspective of one’s
ontological exploration in our internet laden, data-driven, network-base
reality.
The work by Sui Jianguo (隋建国) mesmerizes by opening a dimension that
transcends both the physical and the virtual. In his work, an augmented reality
is spawned by marrying the physicality of a site-specific sculpture with the technological
enhancement of the material reality. The viewer is invited to interact with the
sculpture by pointing the camera towards the installation to activate the data-generated
sensorial input. Though the display, the viewers are transported to the outer
space with meteoroids and particles floating towards them.
Technology opens up the possibility of
transfixing viewers beyond their everyday existence. In the exhibition The Future of Today, data-generated, mediated
reality elevates the ordinary museum experience to one of a hypersensorial ecstasy.
On view though 12 September 2015 at
the Today Art Museum, Beijing.
Today Art Museum, Building 4,
Pingod Community, No. 32,
Baiziwan Road,
Chaoyang Distract,
Beijing, China
010-58760600