VIDEO POST relaunches I No Longer Write – Mochiji, an interactive installation by h0nh1m (Chris Cheung) that pays tribute to Wang Xizhi who was famous for his calligraphy that he used to practise near the pond and eventually turned the pond for brush washing into an ink pond (Mochi). The artwork provides a platform for participants to write and record their handwriting that then nurture the artificial intelligence’s Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) where works from ancient Chinese Calligraphers, including Wang Xizhi, Dong Qichang, Rao Jie, Su Shi, Huang Tingjian, Wang Yangming, are collected as input data for deep learning. The ink pond imitates process of machine learning, which observes, compares and filters inputs through layers of image and text, to form a modern edition of “Mochiji”.
h0nh1m (Chris Cheung), 封筆 – 墨池記 I No Longer Write – Mochiji, 2019