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没顶画廊将于6月4日下午四点推出苗颖个展“内容觉醒”，这是艺术家在没顶画廊举办的首个个展。本次展览由麦克·康纳（Michael Connor）策划，将展出苗颖创作于2016年的一系列最新作品。

“Photoshop会先看一下你的图片，然后为你决定最适合填充到图片中的内容，有时候结果相当令人惊艳。”

—— Youtube上一则关于“内容觉醒”

（Content-Aware*）功能的自制视频教程

本次展览得名自“内容觉醒”这一技术功能，并将借此作为跳转点，探索一类正处于发展过程中的视觉文化——其中，大批图像被迅速而匆忙地生产出来；图像生产者们置传统意义上的品味与质量于不顾，只为满足各式即时性需求。

苗颖此次个展亦对当下世界各地展览与艺博会对“后网络艺术”所展现的巨大热情有所回应。尽管时下对于“后网络艺术”的定义还颇具争议，但对此具有共性的特征在于：许多活跃于美国和欧洲的“后网络”艺术家们乐于对网络饱和化所带来的社会与文化影响进行讨论与回应。在“后网络艺术”已经变成了商业美学趣味代名词和一种（艺术家）对作品的干净熟练的拍摄记录以供在网上循环传播的现象之际，苗颖的展览提出“超级素人主义”来取代后网络这种固有的光洁和未来感；与其对“超级素人”现象视而不见，不如将其理解为一种新兴的，正在发展进化中的美学准则。

展出的新作涉及了从专业图片软件Photopshop中的“傻瓜”功能到“超级素人软件”美图秀秀中的新功能。针对社交媒体在生活中的深度渗透和与其相伴随的各类技术门槛被不断降低的现象，“方便美学/半屁股美学”（Practical/Half-AssedAesthetics, 艺术家造词）被提出，以用于描述两者冲撞下所产生的，由功能决定形式的一种网络极度实用主义和一种“无审美”的审美趣味。

* 在中文版Adobe Photoshop页面中，该功能名称为“内容识别”；此处取英文字面及引申含义。

MadeIn Gallery is pleased to present Content-Aware, the first solo exhibition of Miao Ying at the gallery. Curated by Michael Connor, the exhibition will showcase a series of Miao Ying’s latest works created in 2016.

"Photoshop is going to look at your photo, and it's going to decide what it thinks should be in the area that you're filling, and the results are sometimes pretty surprising.”

——A Homemade Video Tutorial for the ‘Content-Aware Tool’ on Youtube

Miao Ying's exhibition Content-Aware takes the eponymous technology as the jumping-off point for an exploration of a visual culture in which images are produced hastily, without much regard for traditional ideas of taste or quality, in order to serve some immediate, temporary purpose.

Meanwhile, this exhibition comes in the wake of an enormous wave of interest in "postinternet" art in exhibitions and fairs around the world. Though the term's definition is contested, postinternet artists often responded to and narrated the cultural and societal effects of internet saturation, particularly in the US and Europe. Postinternet art became associated with commercial aesthetics and slick photographic documentation circulated online. In place of this slickness and futurity, Miao's exhibition offers a sub-amateurism, and demands that it be understood as a set of new and evolving aesthetic conventions rather than their absence.

Several works in this exhibition involve certain “dummy features” in both professional graphic editing software such as Adobe Photoshop, and more user friendly photo editing apps like MeituPic which, according to the artist, can be considered as a great example of the notion of “sub-amateurism”. In respond to the current situation where social media entirely pervaded our daily life, and related technical skill requirements are constantly lowered, the term “Practical/Half-Assed Aesthetics” is introduced by the artist to describe an extreme internet pragmatism in which functionality is the sole decisive force, as well as to catalyze a new type of aesthetics formed by the lack of aesthetics.

艺术家介绍

苗颖是一位居住在因特网、局域网和她的智能手机上的艺术家。她的作品对主流科技和意识以及它们如何改变我们的日常生活和时代有着强烈警觉。2007年，苗颖学士毕业于中国美术学院新媒体系，2009年硕士毕业于纽约州立大学阿尔弗莱德艺术设计学院电子综合艺术专业。

她的作品曾在柏林KW当代艺术中心（2016）、第56届威尼斯双年展中国馆（2015）、OCAT上海馆（2015）、广州时代美术馆（2015）、北京中央美术学院美术馆（2015）、网络（“错位—新电子艺术双年展”，2015）、北京尤伦斯当代艺术中心（2014）、奥地利林芝国家美术馆（2011）、台北当代艺术馆（2008）和上海美术馆（2007）中展出。2016年苗颖获得“艺术8青年艺术家奖”提名，2015年获“艺术新闻亚洲艺术贡献奖”提名，并于同年入围“第三届华宇青年奖”。

Artist Biography

Miao Ying is an artist who currently resides on The Internet, the Chinese Internet (the Great Fire Wall) and her smartphone. Her works have a strong awareness of mainstream technology and consciousness and its impact on our daily lives. She received her BFA from the China Academyof Fine Art’s New Media Arts department in 2007, and her MFA from the School of Art and Design at SUNY Alfred University, with a focus in Electronic Integrated Arts in 2009.

Miao Ying’s works have been exhibited at KW institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin 2016), the Chinese Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale (Italy 2015), OCAT Shanghai (Shanghai 2015), Times Art Museum (Guangzhou 2015), CAFA Art Museum (Beijing 2015), Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art (Beijing 2014), State Gallery Linz (Linz 2011), Museum of Contemporary Art (Taipei 2008), Shanghai Art Museum (Shanghai 2007) and The Wrong—New Digital Art Biennale (online 2015). In 2016, she has been nominated for Prix YISHU 8 Chine2016. In 2015, she was nominated for the TANC Asia Prize and the 3rd Huayu Youth Award.

策展人介绍

麦克·康纳是纽约新美术馆（The New Museum）旗下成立于1996年的非营利数字艺术平台Rhizome的艺术总监，主要负责平台的项目策划执行、期刊出版、在线展览、艺术家项目委任以及策划Rhizome数字艺术文献库等。康纳同时作为客座助理教授在纽约大学Tisch艺术学院摄影与图像部门授课。他主要围绕数字艺术及科技的审美意涵相关的一系列广泛课题进行教学与写作。

他曾为众多机构策划展览，其中包括Yarat（巴库）、Cornerhouse（曼彻斯特）、The Museum of Moving Image（纽约）、ACMI（墨尔本）、Bell Lightbox （多伦多）、FACT（利物浦）以及 BFI Southbank（伦敦）等。他的近期写作包括一篇由MBCBFTW约稿的文章（Christoph Merion Verlag， 2016）、一篇讨论艺术家吉姆·坎贝尔（Jim  Campbell）的文章、一篇收录于《Abstract Video》（与Johanna Gosse，加州大学出版社，2016），讨论杰米·布莱克（JeremyBlake）的文章等。2014年，他的写作亦被奥马尔·哈利夫（Omar Kholeif）编辑的文选集《You Are Here: Art After theInternet》（Cornerhouse出版，2014）收录。

Curator Biography

Michael Connor is Artistic Director of Rhizome at the New Museum, a digital art non-profit founded in 1996. He leads Rhizome's events program, journal, online exhibitions, and artists' commissions, and curates its digital art archive. Connor is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. He lectures and writes widely on topics in digital art and the aesthetic implications of technology.

He has curated exhibitions and projects for Yarat (Baku), Cornerhouse (Manchester), the  Museumof Moving Image (New York), ACMI (Melbourne), Bell Lightbox (Toronto), FACT (Liverpool), and BFI (London), etc. His recent writing includes an essay for MBCBFTW (Christoph Merion Verlag, 2016), an article on artist Jim Campbell, and a text on Jeremy Blake for the anthology Abstract Video (with Johanna Gosse, University of California Press, 2016). In 2014, his writing appeared in the anthology You Are Here: Art After the Internet, edited by Omar Kholeif.

展览相关讲座

“超级素人”时代的“半屁股美学”

嘉宾：

Michael Connor （麦克·康纳）、 苗颖

时间：2016年6月7日（周二）  19:00

地点：OCAT上海馆

上海市闸北区文安路30号  

Related Lecture

Half-Assed Aesthetics

in the Age of

the Sub-Amateur

Speakers:  

Michael Connor, Miao Ying

Date: 2016.06.07 (Tue.) 19:00

Venue: OCAT Shanghai

30 Wenan Road, Zhabei District, Shanghai