Moving image work Be A God - Tribal Beijing Length: 2 mins 08 sec
Someone once told me that the architecture is somehow like a god to us human beings; our modern life is dependent on it: we work, live, rest, born, love and die inside or around it, it is a god for us.
For my own understanding and expanding, architecture is a skill which does not actually belong to humans. What people can do with it is called a “lucky found” while they are exploring the world. It is the skill that belongs to the Universe, which is a bit like a God, and how the Universe creates and builds the worlds.
I found out that the social media networks which “locks” our daily life are a combination of “Rhythm” and “Architecture”. The way of clicking and sliding the applications and networks is actually a rhythmic pattern; and social media itself (including Wechat, Instagram, Youtube, even Zoom) is an architecture: a huge, endless plaza, each post is an independent room. I was thinking if I can build my own architecture based on the rhythm, and by following the principles, it would be like an algorithm and generative design, yet, the algorithm is the rhythm.
I felt like a god. While I was recording the sound and architecture in my city. I gave all life to streets, bricks, walls, and glass. I reconstituted the sound and noise of Beijing, and it leads to a newer “randomly” Beijing, which is an even bigger massive tribe. The only shame is that I cannot ask someone else to build the city with me, and I cannot live in that newer city for now.
The main two directions for the next step is that designing the whole system like a game: using musical rhythm pattern as a note controlling the architecture building so that everyone could join and build their own cities by rhythms; Applying projection mapping and other kind of techniques, design a space that allow audiences could actually feel and “live” in the city I (or them) build.
