2020年9月18日至11月1日，上海织城文化（Urban Network Office）邀请了哈佛大学中国艺术实验室（Harvard CAMLab），在城市交集URBANCROSS Gallery艺术空间呈现其首个多频影像装置作品《火梦》。
展览旨在展示从人类中心主义 (anthropocentrism) 到生态中心主义 (ecocentrism) 的视角转换，通过戏剧性的音像编排，将人类感官体系投射到物质媒介中，营造物我两忘的虚实体验，呈现不同物质间的变化过程，进行人与生态相互融合的生命思考。
From September 18th to November 1st，2020, Harvard CAMLab will be presenting Fire Dream for the first time in curatorial and venue partnership with Shanghai’s Urban Network Office. Fire Dream, a multi-channel film installation, queries the presumed primacy of human agency, and alludes to a simultaneous convergence and inversion of anthropocentrism and ecocentrism. The viewers will experience first-hand the transformative process an array of natural elements will undergo on-screen, and will embody these protagonists in their metamorphosis.
《火梦》最初的创作灵感源自于当代艺术家赵梦的陶瓷作品，艺术家在创作过程中，利用稻草、纸浆等不同材料，通过高温烧制出特殊的造型陶瓷，再以数字化的方式记录，将其合成为“奇石或山水画”，最后呈现到宣纸上。整个创作过程像一种生态循环：宣纸由纸浆、稻草制成，从稻草到稻草、再从宣纸到宣纸，中间经历物质转化以及燃烧等自然现象，最后又回归于实际物质载体。
The sparks of inspiration that lit Fire Dream into conception were the ceramic works created by contemporary artist Zhao Meng. Zhao’s creative process challenges his traditional ceramic training by incorporating raw materials such as straw or paper fiber during the sculpting process. The idiosyncratic involvement of these elements represents an intentional departure from the elements’ traditional usages in ceramic creation. Zhao’s process mirrors that which occurs ecologically: from straw in all its forms back to straw. Contemporary ecology fuses the intentionality of nature and humanity, twining agency with all elements as they flow and flux through time.
赵梦在进行艺术创作的时候，他并没有刻意地雕琢，而是把泥土自然的形状和肌理组成雕塑，用摄影影像的方式将不同材料组合起来，形成“奇石或山水画”作品。从某种意义上，赵梦已经进入到了一个数字化信息时代的艺术创作，将传统雕塑、陶瓷烧制与摄影、数字印刷结合，通过内在的趣味性探索何为“雕塑”的同时，也是对传统“美术”观念的重新定义。
Zhao Meng’s artistic journey coalesces in a collection of multi-dimensional “scholar’s rocks.” He allows the natural properties and processes inherent in each material he uses to guide him in the making of sculptural components. Only with digital transmutation do the pieces come to life. This final step of digital creation launches Zhao’s works into the realm of New Media, while still anchoring his work in tradition, realized as prints on xuan paper. His approach reimagines the role of “traditional” aesthetics and art while questioning the epistemology of sculpture.
《火梦》为CAMLab长期线上研究性展览项目，此次带来的影像装置节选“燃烧”与“灰烬”两幕，试图用实验性视听解构再重组的方式，开启在人类主体与物质生态、现代媒介与传统技艺、“有情”与“无情”之间的追问与反思，探索个体与集体、理性思维与感官认知之间的微妙关系。通过物质性与虚拟感不断地交融互换，邀请观众体验一场以火为介，多重维度的音画交响，在无常的循环中感悟万物变迁与幻灭重生。
From these roots, Fire Dream was first introduced as a permanent online exhibition and now presents the stages of “Fire” and “Ash” to its audience at large. Through transfiguring the visual and auditory senses, the film calls its viewers to reconsider their recognition of the liminal stages between dichotomies that many have become familiar with. The transitional stage within aesthetics, creative techniques, feeling, questioning and philosophical ecology are all welcome to play out within Fire Dream and in the minds of its viewers. Rather than leaving with a conclusive impression, the film is intended to celebrate the process of fire and firing and the potential of living through a sensorial orchestra of all entities.
哈佛中国艺术实验室属哈佛大学文理学院，由哈佛大学洛克菲勒亚洲艺术史终身教授汪悦进 (Eugene Wang) 创立并领衔，是整合尖端学术研究与多媒艺术创意的国际平台，开启中国文化艺术想象时空的跨界实验地，熔铸精神维度文化体验的艺术展示空间。实验室旨在将前沿学术研究成果化为艺术体验呈现，并以艺术实践催化激活学术研究，是集学术与艺术为一体的创意园和孵化器。
Harvard Chinese Art Media Lab (CAMLab), affiliated with Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, is founded and directed by Harvard University Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art Eugene Wang. An international platform and exhibition space, CAMLab is dedicated to bringing together innovative academic research and multimedia design , unveiling the imaginative space of Chinese visual traditions, and creating cultural experiences that impress the spiritual dimension. Central to CAMLab’s mission is the artistic presentation of cutting-edge research, as well as the catalyzing of intellectual inquiries through artistic practices. CAMLab is an incubator focusing on the integration of scholarship and art.
实验室位处哈佛大学校区中心地带的艺术史与建筑学系大楼内，毗邻哈佛大学艺术博物馆，含研发、展览、行政空间。项目参与者包括实验室研发及策划团队、哈佛大学师生、驻留创意设计师与多媒艺术家、访问学者、实习生等。实验室项目包括以学术研究驱动的创意策展、沉浸式体验虚拟剧研发、实验性艺术影视创作、网络在线与纸媒的交涉出版等。
实验室目前为线上运作，欢迎艺术家、电影人、音乐家、人文学生等多元背景青年才俊的加入，以及国际合作。详情请联系media.harvardcamlab@gmail.com。
Comprised of paces for research, exhibition, and administrative offices, CAMLab is located at the heart of Harvard’s campus. CAMLab’s research and production teams work closely with Harvard faculty and students, artists and designers in residence, visiting scholars, and interns.
CAMLab provides a platform and community for international collaborators and young talents with diversified backgrounds that share the organization’s views on creation, tradition, and engaging contemporaries.
Please join us by contacting media.harvardcamlab@gmail.com.
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