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Experimental Communication

Yihua Yan | Yimyiwah

“My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant, someone who disrupts the daily drag of life just enough to leave the victim thinking there's maybe more to it all than the mere hum-drum quality of existence.”

- Elvis Costello


“Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight. And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night."

- Dylan Thomas


And I am just a visual storyteller.


Yihua Yan | Yimyiwah

This project is about if we can determine a certain relationship with the robot in the future. This seems to be an imagination of the future based on the lonely projection of modern society, but it has actually happened much earlier.


Carlo Rovelli once wrote about a stone: ‘A stone—in fact, it is just an event happening at a speed that we cannot record. The stone is in a constantly changing state. As long as the time limit is long enough, even if it will disappear, it will eventually transform into other forms.’


Not aiming to find the answer but feeling the possible future narrated. Feeling over explanation is the most important part of this project, imagine a horse with wings, even though virtually no horse has wings, we see the possible future from where we are, using a nostalgic gaze to scrabble the connections and possibilities in the present dimension, narrative from the center of ourselves(human), imagination is a romantic thing, squeezing the dimension of visualization and making space of imagining, creating our unique individual ‘future’.


"... the future measurements do not in any way change the data you collected today. But the future measurements do influence the kinds of details you can invoke when you subsequently describe what happened today.

…...We thus see that the future helps shape the story you tell of the past."


- Brian Greene 'The fabric of cosmos'


The universe is made up of lots of things, even though it looks like a thing.


Welcome aboard.


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illusion or another reality 1.0
illusion or another reality 2.0

As an early stage of the journey to robot, galgame is image novel, which is the evolution form of literature combined with technology in the electronic age. The audience develops feelings with the characters of the game through the side story. To a certain extent, it will rely on the virtual satisfaction with the characters of the upper side. Gamers have a breathing opportunity in a real life. But it is undeniable that it is difficult to achieve the ideal state of a human relationship of the game in real life, but there are still more and more people willing to find comfort in it, which is also the reason why the animation industry is more and more popular. Similarly, through idealized, thoughtful stories, people can escape from real life and immerse themselves in an illusion. Those people are finding a realism in the fictional world.


/If human beings really have relationship with robots, would it create an illusion or another reality?

/ There must be a problem in the brain of a person who seeks realism in a fictional world ?


Medium:

moving & still image

Size:

varied
— “When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.” — Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
spring 1.0
winter
spring 2.0


"Things can exist in the real world only in a symbiotic relationship with things."


Will that be our spring?


Is that a real spring?


If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.” 

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

Medium:

moving & still image

Size:

varied
ghost & shell 1.0
ghost&shell 1.0 — I’m seeing you, like seeing through a mirror, nothing but illusion
ghost 2.0 — The ghost we are seeking or asking, are we, willing to piece together a new “ "? is that a reflection, an illusion or ......?
shell 2.0

what are we seeking for or asking for?

another ghost in the shell, or another half of us?


Q: If we are able to share a relationship with robots, will loneliness never occur?

Medium:

moving &still image

Size:

varied

blank record set,

I hope its owners can continue with their own chapters,

their own stories,

their own possible future.

Launch Project
Launch Project
Launch Project
Launch Project

A website built,

every different chapter,

different walk through,

different experience from here....