Machine vision may perceive nature as a series of spectral information or pressure variations. Satellites determine cloud composition, height, and thickness by analyzing the visible and infrared light reflected by different particles within the clouds. Whether in classic Earth portraits, weather forecasts, or the digitally simulated wind in Harun Farocki's artworks, all are images reconstructed and organized by computers before being retouched by humans. From the classical era to the digital age, the depiction of wind and clouds may appear similar, but the methods of observation and cognition are vastly different. The clouds within computers have become our means of observing, analyzing, and recognizing nature.
Clouds contain immense energy, leading to extreme weather events, and they also hold increasing carbon substances, a driving factor of global warming. Carbon, escaping from the Earth's crust into the sky, is both an essential element of life and a precursor to disaster. Under the quantification and control demands of climate policy, carbon credits have become a tool for regulating emission rights and a result of the financialization of climate footprints.
"Twin Cloud Bitcoin" focuses on the impact of Bitcoin mining on the global climate. The work is based on Cambridge Blockchain Network Sustainability Index, depicting the carbon footprint fluctuations from the genesis block in 2009 to the present. It takes multiple data dimensions, including greenhouse gas emission, sources for mining power(coal or renewable energies), block heights, etc. Simultaneously, the artwork collaborates with Arkreen’s project GreenBTC.
Club, incorporating contributions from clean energy to offset the carbon emissions of the Bitcoin network. The collection of Twin Cloud digital artwork will automatically results in the collection of carbon certificates on-chain, therefore returning carbon to the ground.When we transform climate issues into financial ones, the work raises the question: How can we use such precise calculations and predictions by machines to invest in a different future?
2024 Lumen Prize, Impact Award Finalists;
The 16th IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium, Visual Data Storytelling Winner;
The 14th National Art Exhibition, Shanghai, 2024 July;
"From the Other Hill", Guardian Art Center, Beijing, 2023 December;
"A Thousands Silicon Eyes" 5th Nowness Short Film Awards Exhibition, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, 2023 December;
"Interwowen Scape - France OPLINEPRIZE First Exhibition", Curator - Michèle Robine and ZhijieQiu, Shenzhen Museum, Shenzhen, 2023 November;
"Terrestrial Landing: Planet Candidates" - The 14th Shanghai Biennale"Cosmos Cinema" Urban Project, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, 2023 November;
“Twin Cloud”, The 1rst Annual METAVERSE Art@VENICE, Venice Arsenale, 2022 July;
"Byte, Block and Black Void", Hong Kong Web3 Festival, 2024 April;
Twin Cloud 999 NFT Collection release;