UKI Virus Rising
鄭淑麗 (CHEANG Shu Lea)
UKI virus rising
2018
3 channel installation
Dimensions Variable
Courtesy of the artist
UKI virus rising unfolds an ever-morphing virus roaming at the e-trashville. Taken from the narrative of UKI, Cheang’s scifi alt-reality cinema in development, Reiko, a redundant IKU (orgasm) coder dumped in the e-trashville by GENOM Co. strives to reboot their defunct hard drive body. Inadvertently, Reiko’s frenzy self-coding launches themselves into UKI retrovirus.... Meanwhile, In an era of post-net-crash, GENOM Co. exits the Net and takes the human body hostage to initiate BioNet, a network made up of re-engineered red blood cells (erythrocytes) capable of self-generating orgasmic data. In its profitable biotech engineering scheme, GENOM Co. further harvests orgasmic data for profit-making. UKI virus rising, replicated and mobilized, to enter human body......... thus the story begins.
* UKI, as a sequel to I.K.U. is Cheang’s ongoing viral love project since 2009, currently in development as UKI, a scifi viral alt-reality cinema.
**I.K.U. is Cheang’s scifi cyberpunk cult film, produced by Uplink Tokyo and premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2000.
Photo credit: CHEANG Shu-Lea @ Gwangju Biennale 2018
製作團隊 Production team
概念及導演 Conception/Direction：鄭淑麗 CHEANG Shu-Lea
3D遊戲引擎建模 3D etrashville construction：Mathieu Marguerin
紅血球投影編程 Bloodcell mapping programmation： Etienne Landon
配樂製作 Soundscore： Julien Ottavi
製作人 Production： Isabel Arvers/Kareron
法國國家電影中心多媒體藝術創作計畫贊助製作 Supported by DICRéAM, le Centre national du cinéma (France)
Artist description
Cheng Shu-Lea is an artist and filmmaker whose work aims to re-envision genders, genres, and operating structures. She drafts sci-fi narratives in her film scenario and artwork imagination. As a net art pioneer, her “BRANDON” (1998 - 1999) was the first web art commissioned and collected by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. In 2019, she represented Taiwan with “3×3×6”, a mixed-media installation at the Venice Biennale. She has received a CNC/DICRéAM development fund (2016) and a Guggenheim fellowship (2020) towards the production of her current Scifi viral alt-reality cinema UKI. http://mauvaiscontact.info