About Art & Game
"Art Utopia" is a trans-media series led by writer Lucia Luo, which is based on the idea of "distributed narrative", integrating literature, music, art, theatre, CG vedio, AR, MR, RPG Game, metaverse and digital human. Life is like a fire sparkling, co-created by multiple elemental forces. Thoughts melt into spirits, bodies transform as objects move, and the essence of such subtle yet deep changes is to be expressed by art. All companions of the “digi-lyrical wandering” thus travel across realities and virtual spaces, from interactive to co-intelligence, through classical times into imaginary futures.
From the Web 1.0 era of uniting the world, to the interactive Web 2.0 era, and now entering the intelligent and distributed Web 3.0 era, the narrative continues to undergo media changes, showing the distribution form, multi-directional structure, content De-authorization, intelligence, co-intelligence and other characteristics. In the multiple blending areas of art and technology, literature and science, there is a widespread phenomenon of "distributed narrative": each element of a story is systematically distributed on various channels and platforms to serve the story with its maximum benefit. For example, the novel provides the world setting; the Automatic Performance and Murder Mystery (jvbensha) allow audiences to explore actively and immersively; the metaverse constructs the virtual space of the characters; and the music, audio, and video assist the presentation; and organize a complete narrative framework through different network structures.
My Latest Performances
Emotion Alchemist
8th The Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture
Emotion Alchemist
in Many Exibition
Lucia Luo Xu's science fiction was adapted by artist Yongjian Su to mechanical installation art and articipated in the 8th Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture and won Organizing Committee Award.
"The chipped human is just different in the original way, just like the childhood experience of the biological human, what is the difference between what you believe in living for 20 years and what a code tells you that you believe? Perhaps we are all constructed." ——Quote from Emotion Alchemist
The work is a heart-shaped dynamic sculpture consisting of several cylinders, air tubes and cables, the mechanical heart is activated by the collaborative movement of the cylinders. Affected by the position and the movement of the surrounded audiences, the cold code is transmitted through the cables to continuously stimulate the twitching and beating of the mechanical heart, making the steel machine seem to have a vital sign that can be perceived. The boundary between chips and emotions is becoming gradually blurred, probably there is essentially no contradiction between coded machines and souled flesh-bodies, without difference as well.
The RPG Game: The Great River
The original digital person “Aura”
Under the guidance of Lucia Luo Xu, created by Raven team of China Academy of Art, it ranked hot on MANA platform.
Combining the classical art schools and cultural trends in history, this paper explores where the spiritual desire will fall when the material conditions of human beings are saturated. With THE concept of "LIGHT" as the introduction, this paper discusses the role of art in the construction of utopian society and the reverse role of technology development on art. Player controls for the leading role of halo 殅 exploration in the art of utopia, through a series of dramatic events, ultimately the halo to the river.
Appearing on the “Eastern Fantasy: A Metaverse Sci-Fi Fest”, the original digital human “Aura” derived from a creative idea come up with by Lucia Luo Xu. It symbolized the combination of technology and art, with the sparks came from the collision of ideas from various fields. The concept was originally from Walter Benjamin’s “Aura” and “when people face the candle light alone and leisurely explore their imagination, they will instantly understand that this lighting life is a life who is speaking” from The Flame of Candle by Gaston Bachelard.
Wang Zhe, the director of Meitu Aesthetics Lab, chose fire as the original concept and creatively directed the final live figure of “Aura”. The concept was to use different images base on the time points of birth, growth and grow-up and embedded the three images together as a whole, implying that the process of growing up means the time of embracing and accept oneself, until the life blooms like a flower, which represents and reflects different periods of life. In this way, viewers could easily read the entire life in the fire.
