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Transenlight - Four Emissaries

Video installation, Metal Frame, 1’52”

Jansword Zhu, 2024

转译天显 - 四使者

This work refers to the archetype and Urform proposed by Carl Jung and Goethe.The four stellar entities are translate from the a priori morphologies of gene-protein structures corresponding to BMP2 (Bone Morphogenetic Protein 2), ANGPT1 (Angiopoietin 1), GDF8 (Growth Differentiation Factor 8), and NGF (Nerve Growth Factor).They appear as four messengers of life, each embodying a primordial law of form, successively transforming into Urform of bone density, vasculature, cellular division, and neural growth.
The transcendent gene-text is translated—poetically—into material form, revealing the invisible through a gesture of becoming. All of the forms are algorithmically constructed (not generative AI), simulating the natural logic of biological formation.This algorithmic emulation of nature carries within it a latent tension and risk, subtly echoing the myth of Prometheus.

作品指涉到荣格原型(archetype)与歌德提出的原形(Urform)的形式。四个星光体分别转译自骨形态生成蛋白基因2(BMP2),血管生成素基因1(ANGPT1),肌肉生长因子基因8(GDF8)和神经生长因子基因(NGF)的基因蛋白先验形态,仿佛四位生命的使者,并呈现出四使者所执导的“先验形态法则”。漂浮之形依次变换为骨密度、血管、细胞分裂、神经生长的先验形态。将超验的基因文本显化转译为物质形式的过程以诗性的方式展现。以微见著,汩汩幽玄。
所有造型都经由算法完成(并非生成算法),是算法对自然造物与形式法则的模拟。这种对自然造物的模拟形成了潜在的危机与挑战,回应了普罗米修斯的寓言。

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