"We want to build an international, fashionable, high-grade, social city that satisfies the dream city of the soul - the ideal place of spirituality."
—Shao Zhong Thomas Shao
Welcome to meta-universe meta-wu
As the carrier of the fusion of the virtual world and the real world, the metacosm proposes a direction, that is, when the civilization prospers and develops to a certain stage, the future world will be an organic combination of the physical world and the virtual world. Everyone can have an "Avatar" in the virtual world, and can carry out all social and productive life, which provides an almost directional blueprint for the future development of the Internet.
On April 26, Super Media Holdings Co., Ltd. and BV Baidu Venture Capital jointly invested in the establishment of Yuanbang Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Yuanbang Technology). In the future cooperation planning, Super Media Holdings will introduce a number of partners in specific fields (including architecture, design, fashion, culture, art, etc.), and Yuanbang Technology will design and complete the construction and operation planning of all landing projects. On April 28, Meta ZiWU, the first practice of cooperation, was unveiled on Baidu's "Xi'a".
Meta Media and Baidu Xi'an created a new meta-universe product "Meta ZiWU" top overlook
As the fourth cultural ecological community of hypermedia group, Meta-universe anthology Meta ZiWU has witnessed the development path of hypermedia group from print magazine to mobile magazine, from space magazine to metacosmum magazine. Meta ZiWU, a meta-universe that adheres to the goal of "high concept, high life, and high technology", is committed to building an ideal home for utopia, integrating art into life, reconstructing society with science and technology, getting rid of the shackles of the real world, and creating a new cosmology.
Open a new era in the Chinese meta-universe
Architecture
Ma Yansong's first work
ZiWU Metaverse Virtual Building
"Meta-Cosmic Eaves Meta ZiWU" architectural water feature
Ma Yansong is known as the most important voice and representative of the new generation of Chinese architects, and also occupies a place in the international design and architecture fields. For Ma Yansong, the interpretation of architecture depends on the architect's deep understanding of man, nature and the times. As a comprehensive discipline involving complex factors such as history, tradition, cultural context, and natural environment, the practical process of architecture is wrapped in challenges at all levels. Because of this, he hopes to try to enter into a surreal reality through his own efforts.
Architect Ma Yansong (left) and Meta Media founder Shao Zhong (right)
Now, the building is completed in the "Hiram". Meta ZiWU and Baidu's new meta-universe product "Xi Lang" specially invited Ma Yansong to create a virtual building subject. This floating meta-universe building is like a floating whale out of the water, and like the Tower of Babel in the sky, you can still get a glimpse of MAD's "rhapsody" way. From the spirit of nature to the dialogue between old and new, from the traditional view of history to the metaverse world, it is also a Force journey that traces the MAD universe along time and space.
Aerial view of the Metacosmum Meta ZiWU
The "architecture" of the house grows naturally in an organic state, without core tubes, floor slabs, architectural structures, and any physical space in the traditional sense, nor with the concept of facades. Its epidermis resembles the skin of a sea creature, translucent and sparkling. The spaces inside the "building" are all islands and cheongsams, without gravity constraints, floating under the dome of the "podium" and in the semi-bright passage of the so-called "tower", and inside the building is a new time and space, constantly changing with time and content. This organism can appear in any terrain or environment it has shaped, desert, seashore, jungle, and starry sky. No matter where it is, it draws nourishment from the crowd and continues to grow.
"Meta-Universe Eaves Meta ZiWU" Street View Wide Angle View
"In the metaverse, I think it can challenge qualities that are not available in the real world, just like the metaverse of the house, the building can grow non-stop, can float in the air, including the way to enter the building will be different." 」 In Ma Yansong's imagination of the metaverse world, spirituality is an important criterion. He repeatedly stressed that "the most fundamental function of art is to touch the human spirit." The so-called spiritual discussion is aimed at mediocrity—the everyday ones that are too boring, functional, procedural—to contrast with mediocrity in order to talk about the role of spirituality. ”
"Former space magazine Store Meta ZiWU" Interior View
"Our imagination of the future is always imprisoned by the reality in which we live. If we open a new world, whether it is an alien world or a metaverse that talks to our own inner and spiritual worlds, we must grasp the possibility of new creation. Ma Yansong hopes that people can completely forget the limitations of the real world due to construction, and give new attributes to "architecture", an organism closely linked to human senses, behavior, emotions and spirits, and work with each audience to imagine, questioning and criticizing the "rationality" of the real world.
Art
"Post-Chinese Futurism"
Metacosm exhibition
"Post-Chinese Futurism" Metacostem Exhibition Propaganda Poster
For the first time, Meta ZiWU presents the metacosmological exhibition "Post-Chinese Futurism". The exhibition is a cross-generational and cross-context compatible art and fashion exchange. In the posthuman philosophical view and the fable of science fiction, the accelerating development of science and technology itself has become the object of humanism's praise and criticism. Human empathy can not only cross species, cross interstellar, but also cross the boundaries of man and machine. To what extent we can fully accept living in the virtual world, communicate feelings with machine subjects, and acknowledge the concept of art that is native to artificial intelligence, there will be a variety of presentations and discussions in this group exhibition that takes place in the metaverse.
Image taken from Lu Minglong's 2016 work Chinese Futurism (1839-2046AD)