JUNYI HUANG, a Shanghai-based Metaverse artist and fashion illustrator, is also a Web3 DAO Founder. With a keen interest in exploring the intricate dynamics between the web and community, he continually pushes the frontiers of the impending decentralized future. Drawing from fashion and ACG (Anime, Comics, Games) culture, Junyi masterfully synthesizes these influences, creating groundbreaking and intellectually stimulating artwork that encapsulates the spirit of futurism.
His innovative creations shed light on uncharted technological utopias, bridging the distance between technology and human connection in our rapidly evolving digital world. Currently a student at the Royal College of Art, Junyi's work has gained recognition from prominent entities such as the British Royal Family and the BBC. His pieces have been showcased during the coronation of Charles III and are part of private collections.
Major collaborations to his name include distinguished brands like Hermès, DIOR, Starbucks, and Kimberley Diamonds. His commitment lies in pioneering new art forms within the Web3 space, focusing on digital platforms for East Asian culture, Eastern Blockchain, Metaverse gaming, and virtual city-state development.
His innovative creations shed light on uncharted technological utopias, bridging the distance between technology and human connection in our rapidly evolving digital world. Currently a student at the Royal College of Art, Junyi's work has gained recognition from prominent entities such as the British Royal Family and the BBC. His pieces have been showcased during the coronation of Charles III and are part of private collections.
Major collaborations to his name include distinguished brands like Hermès, DIOR, Starbucks, and Kimberley Diamonds. His commitment lies in pioneering new art forms within the Web3 space, focusing on digital platforms for East Asian culture, Eastern Blockchain, Metaverse gaming, and virtual city-state development.
ARTWORK
NEBUFORNIA星云福尼亚
VIDEO GAME, BLOCKCHAIN, EXHIBITION, 2023
<Nebufornia> intertwines Web3 principles and post-colonial smart contracts in a video game artwork symbolizing the 'nebula' of future East Asian societies. Invoking Web3 memes, it sparks collective contemplation of underlying digital infrastructures. The artwork, highlighting digital sustainability, draws the audience into the Web3 frontier, fostering thoughtfulness about blockchain's potential.
TROYTOPIA
特洛伊托邦
FILM, CGI, VR, EXHIBITION, 2023
<Troytopia> is an artwork in the virtual world, which aims to present a more objective view of the future entire ecosystem, rather than from the perspective of humans as apex predators. The fusion of animals and machinery explores the relationship between life and technology in the future. Rather than separating technology from nature, the more we employ technology, the more we can comprehend the interdependence of all things.
CHARLES III CORONATION
查尔斯三世加冕典礼
PAINTING, VFX, EXHIBITION, 2023
The synthesis of classical fashion illustration techniques and regal motifs produces a magnificent harmony, like a reel woven from interlaced stars, concealed amidst serene forests, tranquil oceans, and crystal-clear skies, weaving together all the beautiful aspirations.
ARTIOMA
艾缇欧姆
GAME, AI, EXHIBITION, 2023
<Artioma> is a project built out of a critique of the linguistic habits of the contemporary art industry, as we've been observing an emerging elitism and aggressive cultural invasion of the contemporary art jargon in the English language. The project initially questions whether this is a problem of 'art terminology' per se or of the context and people that drive this trend. After clarifying and de-constructing this phenomenon, attention is drawn to external factors. Finally, by engaging the audience in a dialogue with an AI chatbot inside the website that is trained to talk like an emerging artist using texts from works that we chose from the RCA catalogue, we critique the institutions and agencies that play the role of 'disciplinarians' in this trend.
DIGITAL OUTLIERS
数字离群者
PLATFORM GAME, CGI, EXHIBITION, 2023
This digital artwork explores the era of data-driven living and offers a fresh perspective on it. It introduces the <Digital Outliers>, a group of people who have experienced the near-collapse of the cryptocurrency market and those seeking refuge from mainstream networks. They embark on a secret plan to cross the “Data Door” and find themselves in a realm of “Digital Wreckage”. The abandoned virtual cyberspace leads them to a new narrative, raising questions about decentralization and its role in shaping the future. The artwork takes the audience on a transformative journey through this digital space.
FASHION
时尚
FASHION WORK, EXHIBITION, 2023
Fashion / Digital Fashion / Luxury / Handicrafts / Illustration / Cooperation
STARBUCKS: MODO LOONG
星巴克：魔多龙和他的朋友们
INSTALLATION, EXHIBITION, 2021
This work expresses-we all know that children have been babbling since childhood, stumbled from crawling on the ground to slowly being able to stand up on their own and then gradually learning to walk, but as adults, think about what we are doing for our career and The family is constantly on the go, even stumbling, wake up early, go to bed late. Isn't this kind of "stumbled" like a child? Sometimes we also need to look back to cherish and perceive the beauty of life in life, pay attention to those landscapes that we have neglected, and seem to have nothing but the whole world. Hope that through these funny and lively cuties, you can heal yourself and find your own shelter.
NATURE’S GAZE
自然凝视
PAINTING, INSTALLATION, 2022<Nature’s Gaze> is an audiovisual painting hidden in the forest, through which the viewer can see characters from the hidden story. Including the animals wearing technological products and the Yokai behind the painting, as an ironic language to the way humans live with nature and a series of anti-natural behaviors in our society. Yokai represents nature, which gazes at the actions of humans. The forest is interspersed with monstrous sounds
Synthesized by cherished animals and ethereal instruments. The work combines digital technology with ethereal watercolor to explore the urgent need for reverence for nature in the post-epidemic era.
SMELL MONSTERS
气味妖怪
AR, GAME, 2022
The project uses AR to increase people's fun sensory experience. By exploring human synesthesia, the scents are visualized as different monsters, thus connecting the present environment with the virtual world.
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