Yes, I’m a simp. Simply in love with…

2023.02.25-04.16 「Yes, I’m a simp. Simply in love with…」阮柏遠個展，台北數位藝術中心，台北

I’m simply in love with the digital stuff, LCD screens, and images, as well as moiré patterns, signals, information, pictures, images, and shell models, from one digital object to another digital object, to another emotional individual, connecting a particular emotional transmission - the emotional linkage of the spirit and the sense of body connection. This may be a digital love.

Yes, I’m a simp. Simply in love with … 2023 VTuber Yes, I’m a simp. Simply in love with …The term “simp” in this work comes from “simp/ simping” used in the VTuber culture to describe the relationship of the fans and audience with the VTubers, streamers, and live streamers, satirizing the over-commitment of emotions, money, and real life from fans of the extreme level behind the screens. This work uses the concept of “simp relationship” formed between the viewers and the virtual images. This creation is a reflection of the particular relationship and linkage of people with the digital interface and virtual images, as well as the absolute objective existential state of the virtual images being the projected and reflected desire. Creative Subsidy/Taipei City Government Cultural Affairs Bureau

This world is so clean/beautiful/pleasant that you may wanna die 2023 Social Media、Dreamcore、AI generators(writing、image)、LSD simulator The work is derived from the dreamcore images in social media, which are characterized by anxiety, depression, self-harm and suicidal tendencies. Using the LSD-Dream Emulator scene as the basis of creation and the dreamcore images as the concept of presentation, the images are filled with a large number of depressing and strange architectural spaces, with mysterious, misanthropic, or fearful feelings, and are paired with vague textual content often used in the AI algorithm of the dreamcore to compile texts and stories, which are meant to discuss the emotions and moods that are formed by the contemporary human beings on the internet in the relationships with the algorithms, the social media platforms, and the images on the internet.

Feel your information flow and body through this shell layer of the body 2023 Machinima, VRchat The project combines virtual imagery and physical installations, online performances, and VRChat nightclub to express internal and external bodily and spiritual experiences. The artist explores the layered 3D model characters to the shellbody, depicting scenes of desire like cyber love and avatar sex. The work presents a fluid and mobile cyberqueer and sensory body in space. The work aims to use haptic visuality and visual glitches in a digital game to evoke a physical relationship with the viewers, offering various possibilities of future erotic imagination and dreamscapes.