Golden City Instalacion Arti by Arlene Sun

Golden City Instalacion Arti by Arlene Sun is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Çmimi i Hekurt A' Design Award in Dizajni i Arteve të Bukura dhe Instalacioneve Artistike Competition Category.

HekuriArt e Bukur· 2020

Golden City Instalacion Arti

by Arlene Sun

Client: Spdl Design Lab

Çmimi i Hekurt A' Design Award Winner in Art e Bukur Category

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The Design

About Golden City Instalacion Arti

Qyteti i Artë është një instalacion arti me media të përziera, i krijuar nga pjesë kompjuteri të hedhura. Vepra ka përmasa 30 me 30 inç dhe kombinon bojë akrilike abstrakte mbi kanavacë me mbeturina elektronike, veshje metalike, ndriçim dhe një kontrollues Arduino. Komponentët e dëmtuar u mblodhën nga grumbujt e mbeturinave dhe u vendosën në një kontekst të ri, në vend që të riparoheshin. Sipërfaqet e arta u japin pjesëve një jetë të dytë dhe i shndërrojnë ato në objekte vëmendjeje. Qëllimi është të rrisë ndërgjegjësimin për mbeturinat elektronike dhe të vërë në pikëpyetje mënyrën se si u jepet vlerë gjërave.

The Recognition

About the Çmimi i Hekurt A' Design Award

Golden City Instalacion Arti është fitues i Çmimit të Hekurt A' Design Award, një njohje prestigjioze që u akordohet dizajneve të mira që plotësojnë kërkesat profesionale e industriale që priten nga krijimet e dizajnuara mirë. Fituesit e Hekurt shfaqin aftësi të madhe, specializim të lartë, kuptim ekspert dhe kapacitet krijues të autorëve të tyre. Golden City Instalacion Arti pritet të jetë një krijim shumë i vlerësuar, i admiruar e i dashur, praktik dhe inovativ. Ky dizajn fitues i Çmimit të Hekurt A' Design Award integron praktikat më të mira të industrisë dhe ka karakteristika teknike të afta, të lidhura me njohuri dhe talent. Golden City Instalacion Arti respektohet për përpikërinë e tij dhe është dizajnuar për të ofruar përmirësime të cilësisë së jetës që ndihmojnë ta bëjnë botën një vend më të mirë.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: When new technology comes out we purchase the new and discard the old. What is the the value of those discarded technologies? Is it garbage? And should be buried in the landfill. Or does it still have value ? What is the environmental cost of land-filling those devices? These question inspired me to create Golden City with used land-filled computer parts. I want ignite people's environmental consciousness by given a new life to those discarded parts. The Golden Life.
Dimensions & Packaging: Abstract acrylic and mixed media on canvas 30'' × 30''
Tags: Abstract Acrylic, Mixed Media, Installation Art, Exhibition, Sustainable Design, Electronic Wastes, Green Design, Golden City
Production Technology: Acrylic, Electronic Waste, Metallic Coatings, Arduino, Lighting
Design Challenge: How can I use it to catch up all the attention from my audience? Is the project unique, creative and imaginative? Does it offer a new and ground-breaking value proposition in the social impact sector?
Research: In this era of digitally, filled with virtual objects and digital models, we still hold the old commitment to things. This commitment is reflected in, for example, our preference for materializing concepts – whether it is an abstract theory, a comic character, or a digital image, we want to turn the abstract doctrine into a metal breast-pin on the chest, materializing the comic character into a doll, printing digital images into files or photos. In any case, we hope that we can turn non-objects into objects - those that can be grasped with and touchable by our hands. We believe that only the objected things are real - after all, from various aspects, we are also things – in one way or another, our attachments and detachments toward each other and the world will end up with things. Thus comes our pathological roots of fetishism.

In a world of things, people have long believed that the shape of things has a deeper meaning. This conviction gave birth to the so-called Metaphysics – just as in the long Neolithic era, people once had a superstitious obsession with the metal buried in the ground: people treated metal as another form of human being, and excavating them from the ground would interrupt the process of cocooning in the earth. A vast body of knowledge is built upon this belief - Alchemy. The alchemists' mission is not to extract gold from the metal, but to eventually combine the metal with the flesh, and to achieving the final refinement of Philosopher's Stone—the object that allows everything freely transforming its form through it.

Would art be the Philosopher’s Stone? Or would our computers and smartphones be? While there seems to be no conclusive answer for this pursuit, every device around us is transforming the form of some things in its way. This pursuit has expanded into a series of questions under the hands of the artist Arlene Sun: How to turn a panel painting into a sculpture- into a devise that phonate – into a device that interacts – into a device that acts. As she chooses to scavenge the damaged electronic components from the waste pile, these 'problematic' electronic components were fixed in her hands, not by repairing but shifting into a different context than they used to be located. The devices are transformed from e-wastes into vital parts of works. The value of these devices has grown a thousand folds simply because of relocating into a different context – isn't this a way of forging gold from metal?

At this moment, these electronic components are framed into the frame, turning into the target of our vision in this space. Their another layer of meaning has been excavated in such away. Doesn't our own meaning usually come from the things around us? When we talk about meaning, don’t things always be the strongest bonds between us and our destiny? So What is our commitment to things? What do we mean when we intervene the fate of things? Who is the strong definer of whose fate? Is there a deep oriental gesture embedded in this cherished of things? Artist Arlene Sun responds to these questions via the works exhibiting here.
Inspiration: How to understand Value? I thought the value generate only when you care about it. The thought related me to started to think about the Value between technology and ecology. Nowadays, AI already into our life everywhere, but we still need to evoke much more attentions on solution of the environment. In the future the smart life is not just wear a VR glasses to escape from the reality. We are not able to live in a virtual world with environmental pollution, electronic wastes, abandoned resource.How do we determine value?
Project Duration: The project started in December 2017 in New York and finished in April 2019 in New York, and was exhibited in Novado Gallery in April-May 2019.
Operation Flow: Curator: Dandi Gu, Academic Advisor: Zi
Patents: Arlenesun Solo Mixed Media Art Exhibition
Team Members: Curator: Dandi Gu Academic Advisor: Zi
Image Credits: Image / Photo: Echo, Dylan