2025-2026

The title of the work derives from the Infinite Monkey Theorem: given an infinite amount of time, countless monkeys randomly striking the keys of typewriters could eventually produce the works of Shakespeare. This thought experiment about probability, repetition, and chance also echoes the way artificial intelligence generates language through training on vast amounts of textual data and continuous iteration.

One Million Monkeys is an automated vending machine for contemporary art proposals. Through a touchscreen interface, visitors select creative parameters such as artistic medium, subject matter, identity, geographical context, and ideology. Based on these selections, an AI system generates a proposal for a contemporary artwork and prints it as a physical receipt that the visitor can take away.

作品是一个“自动电影机器”，灵感源自俄罗斯帝国的同名历史典故，格里戈里·波将金将军在女皇叶卡捷琳娜二世船队所经之地的河岸边搭建了临时的村庄“布景”，再让士兵和农民乔装成快乐的村民，站在这些临时搭建的房子前挥手微笑，让这些“村庄”显得真实而繁荣。女皇一离开，布景就被迅速拆掉，再运到下一个地点重新搭建。在作品前，观众就像俄国女皇一样看着这些近乎无限变化的风景：当火车经过时，传感器切换镜头以追踪火车，Ai将摄像头传入的影像实时生成不断流变的AI动画，火车在循环的轨道上不断激活无限的风景。观众则可以像搭积木一样自由组合沙盘上贴有从我手机相册中挑选出的照片的卡片，诱导AI生成“影像盆景”。 “无限”的幻觉与循环往复的时间悖论被这个影像系统创造出来。

2025年

自运行影像装置

定制沙盘，3D打印，喷绘背景，摄像头，电路设计，彩监，电脑，交互程序

6米*3米*2.1米

The work is an “Automatic Cinema Machine,” inspired by the historical allegory of the Potemkin village in Imperial Russia. General Grigory Potemkin staged temporary “villages” along the riverbanks where Empress Catherine II’s flotilla would pass. Soldiers and peasants, disguised as cheerful villagers, stood before these hastily constructed façades, waving and smiling to create the illusion of prosperity. Once the Empress departed, the sets were quickly dismantled and rebuilt at the next location.

In this installation, viewers—like the Empress—encounter an almost endlessly shifting landscape. As the train circles the track, sensors switch camera perspectives to follow it, while AI transforms the live feed into a perpetually morphing stream of animated imagery. Each passage of the train activates new horizons. Meanwhile, visitors can rearrange photo-covered cards on a sandbox—like building blocks—prompting the AI to generate “cinematic bonsais.”

6m*3m*2.1m