Through
The
Information
March 2022
In this era of technological development and information explosion, the existence of the internet has resulted in extensive interconnections between available sources of information, thereby making it messy and hard to decipher. But what is inside information? I developed an experimental hypothesis. On the other side of the wire, I devised a fantasy theme of “passing through information”.I hope to interpret my understanding of information through photography. I wanted to explore what we would be like once we crossed the information dimension.
In the film The Matrix, there is such a thing called “matrix”, which is spawned from the consciousness of a human being who can travel to the matrix world by the connection of a cable and then return to the real world by answering the phone. When the consciousness reaches a certain level, all the things seen in the matrix would be made up of data. For example, to learn Chinese Kongfu, you just need a set of programs. Want to ward off the enemy’s bullet? Just think about it and it will happen.
I expanded the concept of "passing through information" with a non-linear narrative logic, assuming that the channel connecting the future world of information and the real world can be anything that intersects. I presented them in the form of Diptych and distinguished them in colour and black and white to form a complete vision. The real world was set in the 20th century when the information network was not yet developed; it was also an era when the paper media dominated.
Waking up in a futuristic information world, you discover a space of chaos, where lines of seemingly unpredictable rules are moving in their own ways.