OVERWEATHER / 气候
OVERWEATHER / 气候
We make the climate. The climate makes us.
A factory creates conditions under which objects become possible. OVERWEATHER / 气候 is the moment an environment's climate, pressure, heat, and rhythms become its production system. Weather is manufactured indoors. Red and gold structures assemble, buckle, freeze. The workshop becomes a microclimate of care and control. In a speculative future, embodied AI could learn through material resistance, aesthetically manufacturing its surrounding while being manufactured by it. A reverse factory shadows production: offcuts, absences, rejected possibilities. This expanded painting attributes conditions. Everything is adjustable. Improvement has no final setting.
我们制造气候。气候塑造我们。
工厂创造了物件得以成为可能的条件。OVERWEATHER / 气候 是一个环境的气候、气压、热度与节律成为其生产系统的时刻。天气在室内被制造。红色与金色的结构组装、弯曲、凝固。车间成为一个关怀与控制的微气候。在一个推测性的未来,具身AI可以通过物质阻力学习,在美学上制造其周遭的同时被其所制造。一座反向工厂伴随生产运转:边角料、缺席、被淘汰的可能性。这幅扩展绘画归因于条件。一切皆可调整。改进没有终止设定。
We make the climate. The climate makes us.
我们制造气候。气候塑造我们。
Every factory is a weather system. Heat, pressure, humidity and rhythm are held within tolerances so that objects can exist at all. Developed with WIST, a manufacturer of high-tech metal toys, OVERWEATHER / 气候 moves inside that climate. Red and gold structures are cut, bent and assembled, then buckle and freeze, as if the workshop were rehearsing its own forecast. The video grows from a single hand drawing passed through generative AI, scored with chiptune and the melody of Chinese television's weather forecast: the sound of toys meets the sound of official calm. In a speculative future, an embodied AI might learn exactly like this, through resistance, friction and failure, shaping its surroundings while being shaped by them. Behind every product runs a reverse factory of offcuts, jigs and rejected versions. OVERWEATHER paints that too.
每一座工厂都是一个天气系统。温度、气压、湿度与节律被控制在容差之内,物件才得以存在。与高科技金属玩具制造商微石-WIST共同开发,OVERWEATHER / 气候深入那个气候内部。红色与金色的结构被切割、弯折、组装,随后弯曲、凝固,仿佛车间正在排练自己的天气预报。视频从一幅手绘草图出发,经由生成式AI演化,配以电子游戏音乐和中国电视天气预报的旋律:玩具之声与官方平静之声相遇。在一个推测性的未来,具身AI或许正是这样学习的——通过阻力、摩擦与失败,在塑造周遭环境的同时,被环境所塑造。每件产品背后都运行着一座反向工厂:边角料、夹具与被淘汰的版本。OVERWEATHER也描绘了那些。
Everything is adjustable. Improvement has no final setting.
一切皆可调整。改进没有终止设定。
We make the aesthetics. The aesthetics make us.
We make the climate. The climate makes us.
我们制造美学。美学塑造我们。
我们制造气候。气候塑造我们。
Two companies, two commissions. We said yes, because a factory is not the opposite of art. It is one of the places where our aesthetics and our world is made.
两家公司,两项委托。我们答应了,因为工厂不是艺术的对立面。它是我们的美学与世界被制造出来的地方之一。
The result is two videos, OVERWEATHER and UNDERWEATHER. Each lasts two minutes and two seconds. Each began as one drawing by hand and then went through generative AI.
结果是两件录像作品,OVERWEATHER和UNDERWEATHER。每件时长两分零两秒。每件都始于一幅手绘,随后经由生成式AI演化。
The soundtrack mixes chiptune, the sound of games and toys, with the melody of the chinese television weather, a tune many of you have heard thousands of times. Play and authority. The toy and the forecast.
配乐混合了电子游戏音乐——游戏与玩具之声——以及中国电视天气预报的旋律,那是一支许多人已听过数千次的曲调。游戏与权威。玩具与预报。
Why weather? Because a factory is a weather machine. Temperature, pressure, humidity, flow. If one value drifts, the product fails. Weather is what happens today. Climate is what makes it happen again tomorrow. A factory turns weather into climate. It makes the same day repeat, perfectly.
为何是天气?因为工厂是一台天气机器。温度、气压、湿度、流量。若某个值偏移,产品便会失败。天气是今日之所发生。气候是让它明日再度发生的原因。工厂将天气转化为气候。它让同一天完美地重复。
OVERWEATHER goes inside. With Weischsch-üö /WIST: cutting, bending, assembling. Red and gold structures form, buckle, freeze. The workshop becomes a microclimate of care and control. Something becomes possible because something else is restricted. Everything is adjustable. Improvement has no final setting.
OVERWEATHER向内深入。与微石-WIST:切割、弯折、组装。红色与金色的结构形成、弯曲、凝固。车间成为一个关怀与控制的微气候。某些事物之所以成为可能,是因为另一些事物受到限制。一切皆可调整。改进没有终止设定。
Both works share a horizon: embodied AI. An intelligence with a body will not learn from text alone. It will learn the way a factory learns, through heat, friction, pressure and physical pain and failure. It will shape its environment, and the environment will shape its body and its intelligence. We are building embodied AI weather now.
两件作品共享一条地平线:具身AI。一个拥有身体的智能将不只从文本中学习。它将以工厂学习的方式学习,通过热度、摩擦、气压,以及物理层面的痛苦与失败。它将塑造自己的环境,而环境将塑造它的身体与智能。我们正在制造具身AI天气。
So manufacturing aesthetics is not only about how things look. It is about the conditions under which things, and maybe soon intelligences, become possible.
因此,制造美学不仅仅关乎事物的外观。它关乎事物——以及也许即将到来的智能——得以成为可能的条件。
UBERMORGEN follows the promises of care, protection and improvement all the way, until their contradictions become visible. And beautiful.
超明天沿着关怀、保护与改进的承诺一路追随,直到它们的矛盾变得可见。且美丽。
Thank you. 谢谢。
谢谢。Thank you.