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RHO是由新媒体艺术家、照明公司和空间设计公司合作建立的跨领域团队。我们与世界各地的艺术家的合作，在声音、互动、视觉等多感官艺术中，致力在空间、照明、媒体互动三方创造出独一无二的流畅体验。「 RHO 享见 」系列在于分享我们的 “ 合作艺术家 ” 与他们的艺术探索，也分享团队内部 “ 核心力 ” 的艺术远见。本期邀请前来与我们分享作品的是RHO团队成员冯冰心。

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  艺术家简介  

  Artist Bio  

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 冯冰心 Feng Bingxin 

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跨媒体艺术家

Intermedia Artist

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冯冰心出生于中国广州，是常驻于上海和伦敦的数字艺术家和图像创作者。她的创作实践融合了动态影像、交互体验设计和平面设计等范畴。她的关注方向主要是数字图像对人文体验的影响以及身体、认知和参与之间的关系。在英国伦敦相继获得伦敦艺术大学平面与媒体设计学士学位与伦敦大学金史密斯学院计算机艺术硕士学位后，她以设计师和艺术家的身份参与了一系列与影像、动态图形、交互体验领域相关的商业项目与艺术项目。她致力于通过数字互动与视觉艺术的结合，探索观众行为与参与体验给作品概念和形式表达上带来的可能性。在2019-2020年间，冰心曾作为数字设计师在伦敦SHOWstudio工作，回国后曾在广州哩度艺术中心教授跨媒体艺术与设计相关课程。目前她居住于上海，是RHO Studio的设计师。

Benny Bingxin Feng was born in Guangzhou, China and is based in Shanghai and London as digital artist and image maker. Her practice takes form through moving images, filmmaking, interactive experience design, and graphic design. She is interested in the effect of digital images on the experience of humanity, as well as the relationships between body, cognition, and engagement. After studying Graphic and Media Design at London University of Arts, and Computational Arts at  Goldsmiths University of London, she got involved in moving image, filmmaking, motion graphics, and interactive experience design in both commercial and artistic projects. She is interested in the effect of digital experience of humanity, dedicated to explore the creativity possibilities where visual arts and audience engagement intersect. During 2019-2020, Benny had an experience working as a digital designer at SHOWstudio in London. And she taught intermedia art and design classes at Lido Art Center in Guangzhou. Currently, she is living in Shanghai, working as a designer in RHO Studio.

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  作品分享  

  Artist Projects  

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不见不现不明

We do not See Until We See

“暗流涌动，我们却未曾察觉，直至低头看见被水波打乱的镜像。” 这是一个以水流为表现对象，以抽象隐晦的方式反映人们感知世事状态的多媒体交互装置。装置中的带有镜子的水箱与相邻屏幕上实时生成的数字影像组成一组倒影般的对称景观。水箱中的水一直保持着微弱的波动，经过的人若没有特地留心，几乎不会感受到这个波动。然而，但凡对这个装置有所关心，上前低头看向水中，他/她便会看到水下镜中的自己。当人看到水中的自己时，将感受到水流波动逐渐增强，渐渐地把镜中的人像扭曲，由此周围观众也能感受到水波。而后当人放弃注视自身，不再看向水中镜像之时，波动又将渐复平静，以至于几乎无法被人感受到。这个作品中构建的感受状态不仅发生在该装置的水流中，也发生在世事的潮流中。比如政治、文化、生态、气候等方面，它们一直都是暗涌流动的状态，如同水一般，从来都不曾处于完全静止的状态。但我们时常感受不到这些暗流，我们时常以为这箱水就是静止的——只因我们未曾起意关心，未曾切身经历。唯有当自身或身边人受到事件波及，才恍然真切体会到浪潮的影响力，正如同目睹水中镜像被水波打乱，才感受到水流的波动。

"The flow would not be perceived clearly until we seeing ourselves under its influence." This is an analog and digital interactive reflective installation, an abstraction of the state of how we perceive matters around us. A scene of a mirror in water is symmetrically constructed with a water tank with a mirror at the centre, and a screen against the tank displaying a digital version of the reflection within the flow. There is very subtle, even unnoticeable analog flow being generated from pumps under the water tank. Meanwhile on the screen, there are computer-generated abstract graphics being animated form the data of the analog water movement, which is captured by a webcam on top of the installation. If there is a viewer steps forward and looks straight into his/her self reflection in the mirror within the water tank, his/her reflected face would be captured and recognised by the webcam, which triggers to turn up the pumps, then he/she would see the water flow getting more and more noticeable, eventually distorting his/her reflected image in the mirror. At the same time, the viewer’s reflected image would appear on the screen symmetrically in real-time, which emerges a scene of oneself looking at oneself involuntarily. And the other audience surrounding the installation would also witness the flow from that viewer’s distorted reflection on the screen and/or the triggered waves in the glass tank. The flow would not be perceived clearly until we seeing ourselves under its influence - Not only the flow of water in the tank, but also the flow of politics, culture, ecosystems, climates and so on.

再次盛开

The Strength to Rebloom

受邀于由日本制药公司Takeda和英国公关公司Hill+Knowlton Strategies，冰心为他们发起的“I Am Number 17”罕见疾病公益宣传项目创作了互动影像装置作品。在该项目中，17个艺术家分别与17个对罕见疾病有很深羁绊且有杰出贡献的病人或病人家属配对合作。她的合作对象Alan Thomas是一名共济失调症（Ataxia）患者，同时也是慈善机构“Ataxia&Me”的创始人。Alan向冰心介绍了这种疾病，并分享了他的经历：共济失调症多为天生，但常于成长过程中甚至成年后才发病，一开始只是行动缓慢，动作不协调，随着年月会渐渐发展到手脚不听使唤，语言障碍等，甚至可能失去大部分行动能力（但这个病对智商、思想没有影响）。目前共济失调症无法根治，有可能通过药物和物理治疗减缓症状恶化的速度。但是因为这个病罕为人知，病人往往要花费好几年才能被确诊，这个过程也就给他们的身体、心理、经济等带来更多负担。因此Alan才想要通过慈善活动向更多人普及这一疾病的信息，即使大家只是单纯地“知道了”这个病，对相关的病人、医生来说也是一种帮助。作品中，花开到枝枯的过程象征共济失调症患者从拥有常人行动条件到逐渐丧失行动能力与信心的过程。装置花环中上的盒子代表花苞，若一直无人理会，影像中的花与枝叶便止于绝望。相反，若观众上前用双手温暖花苞，影像中的花便能在观众的支持下再次盛开。这一过程象征着作为他者，我们的了解、接纳与帮助，能为共济失调症群体带来前进的希望。

"Flowers bloomed are losing strength in their lifetime. But if there are people become aware of it, and willing to hold the bud with care, they would give the flowers the strength to rebloom." In January, Benny was involved in a great campaign "IAmNumber17" founded by Takeda, to arise awareness of rare diseases. Partnered with Alan Thomas (Instagram @ataxia_and_me), she created a video installation inspired from his experience of living with a rare diseases called Ataxia. In this project, the process that the flowers bloom as beautiful as usual at the beginning, but grow with less and less vitality - is a representation of the experience with Ataxia that the patients will progressively lose their strength and coordination abilities which brings difficulties to their balance, speech and motion. However, it doesn’t mean the situation is hopeless. For the patients, their families, doctors, and the other general public, raising more awareness and care of this rare disease could improve the condition. And that’s the meaning embodied in the interaction in this installation - the audience do not just watch the flowers journey going down, by holding the bud with their hands, they could help the flowers to rebloom.

Face Filter Notebook

人像滤镜记事簿

Filter name from left to right

Level Up - Raw Love - How Green Are You - Breath

抬头看人 Head up then level up //

爱是谬赞，爱是赤裸，爱是盲目 Iconic like or realistic love, raw love is just blind //

今天你绿了吗 How green are you //

当受困于湍流之中，也许再往前一点，就能上来喘口气 While trapped under the flow, I guess head forward is the only way to comp up and breath again //

To try on more face filters, please visit Benny's instagram @benyfeng

“人像滤镜记事簿”系列是冰心作为创作者，探索自我表达、记录，并寻求他者共鸣的一种媒介。它们就像是新时代版本的肖像艺术——通过构筑肖像场景，配合人物神情仪态，以表现艺术家或模特的某种难以言喻的心理感受。而社交媒体这一数字互动平台，让不同的人、地点、时间可以无限地重构这些肖像，不论是观众、模特、抑或是艺术家本人，都能不断地从中解读出新的讯息。当然，大家也可以仅仅把它们作为消遣自恋的玩具。

For Benny as a creator, the Face Filter is an approach to explore her self-expression, documentation, and look for some kind of resonance from the others. Face Filters are like portrait arts in the digital age - with the elaborated scenario and the model's performance, a portrait depicts subtle emotion from the artist or the model. And the fact that social media as a digital interactive medium, it infinitely brings new characters, different places, and time into the portrait. Therefore, one prototype could be developed into infinite possibilities. But of course, we could also just enjoy these filters as some narcissistic toys. 

欢迎来到巨椒珍宝号

Welcome to the Spiceship

与服装设计师 Jojo Ruiji Zhou (weibo @ackbooboo) 合作，为“Welcome to the Spiceship 欢迎来到巨椒珍宝号”系列所创作的影像。结合设计师服装中“防护防卫”的概念来源和“spiceship巨椒珍宝号”的关键词，影像呈现的是一段关于外星旅程中可能遇到危险的安全预警指南。

Fashion film collaboration for textile designer Jojo Ruiji Zhou’s collection "Welcome to the Spiceship" (2019). With the "protective defense" fashion concept and the brand keyword "Jumbo Chilli Spiceship", the film presents a safety warning guide on dangerous possibilities in outter space journey.

编辑：Ale

设计：Ale / Jing

校对：Benny / Jing

图片素材来自于艺术家个人网站与其他网络资料

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