Chaos Butterfly The First Xi‘an Ing Sci-Tech Art Season

Chang‘an Yun - Xi‘an Future City Art Centre, Xi‘an, China
Curator: Qiu Zhijie, Wu Xiaochuan
30.12.2024 - 30.05.2025
https://www.dezeen.com/2022/06/22/zaha-hadid-architects-jinghe-new-city-culture-art-centre/


Speculative Evolution, Screenshot 10

The theme of the exhibition is inspired by Liu Cixin's sci-fi masterpiece, and the metaphor of “Chaos Butterfly” implies that in the era of globalization, the fusion of technology and art is reshaping social structures at unprecedented speeds and exploring unknown realms. Just as a butterfly's slight flutter deep in the Amazon rainforest can, across vast distances, stir up a storm in the distant Pacific Ocean, this metaphor brilliantly interprets the subtle connections in nature and the unprecedented intertwined relationships between people, species, individuals, and groups in a globalized era.

Exhibition Venue: Chang'an Yun - Xi'an Future City Art Centre (Intersection of Bahe East Road and Gangxing 3rd Road, Xi'an)


Exhibited Artwork


Speculative Evolution

Mobile App as Interface for Net-Based Installations

Due to the threatening predictions of species extinction and global warming, scientists and farmers are increasingly relying on technologies such as genetic engineering, synthetic biology and machine learning. Speculative Evolution imagines a speculative ecosystem 30 years from now, where artificial intelligence and biotechnologies work together to create and optimize species to withstand the increasingly more …