"Please don't talk about Web3" exhibition unveiled at U Design Week 2023
The "Please don't talk about it" series of exhibitions ushered in the second season with the new year of UDW. As mentioned last year, when art, culture, and technology are integrated, the future will be revealed in a clearer light. The relative balance between price and value in the future must be based on consensus. For the industry that has just experienced deep bearishness, native players have deeply realized that a purely virtual consensus cannot support a stable market at all. They have begun to expand the corresponding relationship in the physical field; and the entry of big players from the traditional Web2 industry has directly adopted the method of binding quantifiable physical rights and virtual values to each other, thereby attracting a large number of traditional users. this emerging field.
When we stand together at the intersection of science and technology and humanities, a wonderful entanglement has formed between the virtual and the real. Literature and art are no longer so illusory, and technology is no longer so cold and real. All this is just like the ancient "Zhuang" In Zhou Mengdie's philosophical speculation, it seems that there is no longer a clear boundary between reality and illusion, and there is no need to have a clear boundary.
"Pizza Day" more than ten years ago is still talked about by the public today, which proves that the combination of reality and reality is the basis for maximizing consensus. If you are still unwilling to wake up in your dream, please don't talk about Web3.
——Curator JΛMΞS Li Zheng@CHOCO1ATE
One year after "Please Don't Talk About Metaverse", which debuted at UDW in 2022, became a popular exhibition, the second season of "Please Don't Talk About Web3" made the "Please Don't Talk" series gradually come out with unique IP style content. The eye-catching and playful exhibition name, the interweaving of Web2 and Web3 worlds, the overlapping of mass and niche consumption, people are swept by this wave with half-knowledge, living and traveling in two worlds.
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01. The world premiere of Mr Doodle's digital art series DoodleHeads
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02. Takashi Murakami's Wonderful Collision of Virtuality and Reality
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What happened to CloneX #3487 in UDW by JΛMΞS & KΞNJI
03. Fang Lijun's virtual and real exploration based on ceramic materials
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Elemental by Fang Lijun
04. "U Realm" directly reaches your imagination
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05. Hong Kong's "Godfather of Trends" Ge Minhui and well-known artist Deng Zhuoyue complement each other
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06. VBS x CHOCO1ATE joint BAYC Boring Ape digital asset airdrop
Co-created by VBS and CHOCO1ATE, with BAYC #8644 as the image, based on VBS, the airdrop of the digital assets of Boring Ape Virtual Headgear, which can be repackaged and has AR functions, is co-created.
Is there a real boundary between virtual and reality? In the future world, is the time and space blurred between reality and reality? Have we stepped into the realm of illusory reality, and it gradually becomes clear in the haze: "When the fake is real, the real is also fake, and there is nothing to do, and there is nothing."?
Special thanks (in alphabetical order):
Next Generation Culture / Daniel Arsham
Dorophy Tang / Eric Kot
JΛMΞS & KΞNJI & PUЏUЏΞ
Triumph Gallery / Outland / Pearl Lam Galleries
POPMART / RelaZzZ / SAMSUNG
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About U Design Week
U Design Week is a platform and event activity created by the Alibaba design team at a specific time point, based on the accumulation of digital capabilities and platform-based business connections, and collaborative design ecology. Drive the revitalization of the industry and accelerate the transition from Made in China to Created in China.
