Kiang Malingue is pleased to present “Savage winds, a land of stone, Forsaken intelligence, left alone,” an exhibition of Miao Ying’s latest simulations and paintings. This is the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition continues Miao Ying’s exploration of digital assets in the broader sense—visuals, sounds, special CG effects, gestures and data that have been radically owned, shared and misappropriated in the virtual world—identifying artificial intelligence as a type of digital asset par excellence, a modern alchemy that functions as a black box beyond its creator’s control.
 
Technomancy at Polarized Rift (2023) and Technomancy at Lava pit (2023) are two simulations that depict evolving landscapes, continuously conjuring from a stationary point of view an array of digital readymades: generic, pre-made assets such as epic landscapes, environmental objects and special effects used in many existing games. Spontaneously, audio is generated as poems written by GPT describing the rugged landscape features, fantasy political spells, and technomancy spells are being read by an AI trained in a British accent. The title of the exhibition derives from one such spell that appeared in Technomancy at Polarized Rift. Highlighted is the relationship between magic-ideological incantations and happenings on screen, grounding predestined causality in a randomised cacophony.

Opening reception Sat, 07 Oct, 3 – 6 PM

Gallery address: 13/F, Blue Box Factory Building, 25 Hing Wo Street, Aberdeen