No different

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No different

11 x 14in; video size adjustable

Mix media

2020

受新冠疫情的影响，网络授课和线上会议成为了新常态。在一次次的通过电脑显示器、手机屏幕与他人进行间接的视线接触和语言交流的过程中，让人思考：我透过“黑镜”看到的“他或她”是否是真实的“他或她”？很显然，通过线上的连接，我们在共享一段时间，所以“他”是一个现实世界活着的人，然而通过编程所解码的“他”的影像不过是存在于虚拟世界中的二进制代码。通过屏幕，人们生活在“现实生活”和“虚拟世界”之间的中间地带，即是有血有肉的、一个世俗意义上的真实的人，也是存活于元宇宙的、虚拟世界中依托代码而生成的人，形成了一个新物种。

Influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, online classes and virtual meetings have become the new norm. The recurrent experience of engaging in indirect eye contact and verbal exchange through computer monitors and mobile phone screens raises an essential question: Is the “other” we perceive through this “black mirror” truly the person in reality? Although online connections enable us to share the same temporal frame, the individual encountered via digital media is a living, breathing person in the physical world; yet, the image rendered by programming exists merely as binary code within a virtual realm. Thus, through the mediation of the screen, individuals inhabit an intermediate space between tangible reality and the virtual, simultaneously manifesting as flesh-and-blood beings and as coded entities within the metaverse—a phenomenon that constitutes a new species.