Jingyi Gao

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It Is Us is a project that delves into the complex relationship between humans and technology. Using an AI text-to-image generator and portrait photography, I aim to explore the symbiotic connection between the two.
The project consists of six black-and-white long-exposure portraits captured by a pinhole camera. The camera has a lens filter made from AI-generated images of eyes. During the 10-minute exposure, the subjects and the pinhole camera with the lens filter of AI-generated eyes unavoidably look at each other until the shutter closes. The resulting images merge human and technological elements, blurring the lines between what is natural and what is artificial. The black-and-white aesthetic of the portraits highlights the raw humanity of the individuals depicted while introducing a technological element that challenges our perceptions of what it means to be human. 

Through this project, I aim to challenge the common perception that technology and humanity are separate entities. Instead, they are deeply intertwined and interdependent. By exploring this relationship through portraiture, I seek to humanize the impact of technology on our lives, encouraging viewers to reflect on their own experiences and relationships with technology.

The project's name, It Is Us, emphasizes that technology is not an external force acting upon us but an integral part of our collective identity. By embracing the complexity of this relationship, we can begin to forge unexpected and desired alliances that transcend traditional boundaries of identity and experience. Through this project, I also seek to address the topic of "Face to Face," by exploring the relationship between humans and technology in a way that allows for unexpected and desired alliances to form. While technology is often seen as a divisive force that separates us from one another, it can also be a powerful tool for connection and understanding.

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Jingyi Gao 是一位居住在纽约的多媒体艺术家,她的实践专注于摄影、视频和雕塑。她的作品围绕技术与人体之间的共生关系展开,她将人工智能作为一面镜子来反映我们在世界上的位置。

作为一名舞蹈家转变为视觉艺术家,静怡的艺术之旅一直是不断探索和发现的旅程。她对有机身体及其表现之间相互作用的迷恋始于剧院,在那里她第一次对摄影产生兴趣,以捕捉舞蹈的短暂之美。

Since then, her passion for the physicality of movement has continued to inform her artistic practice, inspiring her to explore the boundaries between the real and the virtual, the tangible and the abstract. Her work has taken on a more experimental and interdisciplinary character in recent years. Jingyi seeks to capture the essence of the human form to convey the expressive power of the body as it moves through space and time.

At the same time, she pursues the dialogue between the viewer and the subject, inviting contemplation of the human body in all its complexity. She strives to create visual representations that are fantastical and thought-provoking, encouraging viewers to consider the intricacies of the human form and the various ways it can be perceived and experienced.

无论是在传统媒体的范围内还是在尖端技术的范围内工作,Jingyi 始终致力于探索新的方法来探索身体结构与其表现形式之间的相互作用。通过她的艺术,她渴望加深对人类形态的理解和欣赏,邀请观众以新的和令人兴奋的方式看待人类。

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