Miao Xiaochun

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COMMENTS Save As: On Miao Xiaochun’s Algorithmic Painting The Cosmos of Miao Xiaochun Double Interface-Miao Xiaochun's Restart Discovering The New In The Old Post-HIistory's being just so Miao Xiaochun and his H2O Miao Xiaochun’s Last Judgment Phantasmagoria-Photographs by Miao Xiaochun Miao Xiaochun：A Visitor from the Past Visual Maze INTERVIEWS Grammar-interview by Henna Joo Restart-Interview by Huang Du with Miao Xiaochun Miao Xiaochun: Microcosm – A Modern Allegory H2O-A Dialogue between Jiang & Miao Two Conversations MXC-Wu Hung STATEMENTS Readme Algorithmic Paintings Metamorphosis Limitless Out of Nothing Disillusion Beijing Handscoll Beijing Index New and Old Media Microcosm H2O-A Study of Art History The Last Judgment in Cyberspace The Power of Photography	Disillusion By Miao Xiaochun Translated by Hao Yanjing Images made of soap bubbles are seen everywhere from the beginning to the end in the 3D animation Disillusion, persons made of soap bubbles would be fleeting and burst with a single touch; as short and fragile as our lives. However, even with such short and fragile lives, men are still creating earth-shaking or totally destructive events. On earth or in the universe, maybe there are no other kinds of beings worth such respect, such pity or such hatred. Disillusion- 3D computer animation script 1. The opening of the animation consists of four Zhuan style Chinese characters with the meaning of “disillusion” made by soap bubbles; they come together and disappear. It is very difficult for our modern audience to recognize Zhuan style Chinese characters; but if I used simplified Chinese characters, it will be difficult for later generations. 2. One tiny person walks with extreme caution on a steel rope situated between the twin towers; one bubble floats around him, going left and right; both the person and the bubble keep perfect balance; but this is only for a while, this balance is meant to be broken later on. 3. Lots of bubbles go through groups of weird people and things; the shapes of these people and things seem like characters drawn by Ba Da Shan Ren (1626-1705, famous artist in early Qing Dynasty); at last, bubbles crash the person on the cross: the omnipresent invisible and untouchable gas has unbelievable power. 4. A person made of bubble is standing among mountains, wobbling and divided into two; a bird flies by and half of the person bursts and vanishes. 5. Transparent warriors hide within transparent Trojan horse, the transparent warriors can see transparent serpents wound around the transparent Laocoön and his transparent sons; the horse is surrounded by transparent priestesses. When everything vanishes into thin air, when dust has settled, you look back at these events, all things including conspiracies are crystal-clear, transparent. 6. Warriors, horses overlap each other. 7. Nuclear submarine travels in deep ocean without a sound. It comes out of the water, people are drinking and enjoying on a ship of fools and eating nuclear submarines made of salmon. Combat aircrafts land on aircraft carrier and become colorful bubbles; they fly into the sky again. I wish all weapons are only created to wait quietly to be eaten away. 8. Nature nurtures and digests people’s bodies; religion soothes and devours people’s souls. 9. Bubblely airship transports bubblely animals to the heaven; animals do not have religion, hell or fear. Souls are everywhere, in heaven, in underground, scattered all over, omnipresent. 10. Holding a person made of countless bubbles, an ever changing body that falls to the ground and disappears. Life is like a dream, time flies by; is it true that we come and go without a trace?

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