On-Going
D: Zhiwen Shao
We are rapidly approaching the last stage of human extension, the stage of technologically simulating consciousness.” In the work “Disordered Subject,” the author uses the spread of footprints from the moon landing to imply Baudrillard's theory of “simulacra implosion and hyperreal experience”—the dissemination of information does not require proof of the object's real existence and has been abstracted and simplified into virtual symbols and codes, proliferating and iterating like genes.
The newspaper “The Moon Journey,” which archives all news reports and television broadcast schedules related to the moon landing event; “The Simulator,” which compiles 1000 AI-generated images of moon footprints, serving as a simulator of simulacra; and “Thesis Book,” which contains two chapters, “Simulacra Genes” and “Mirror of Fantasy,” along with academic papers. Also, the 1000 generated footprints will be projected onto a replica “moon rock.”