Prototype 0021-0026 is a series of artworks, a world and a narrative.

Using extended reality, artificial intelligence, robotics and complex 3D printing procedures, the exhibition presents a futuristic site, where art is seen as an ‘archaic information processing system’.

CERES-1 is an escaped rocket now in orbit around earth. Traveling across space-time, it shifts magic-mechanical-memory, capturing users thoughts and uploading them to its server: Prototype 0023.

The main protagonist Zero is a sentient data entity, a real time live language, which continually regenerates throughout the network. Their life is interpreted by Ephemeral; an English coder. Their conversations span philosophical questions related to memory, oblivion, and image.

“How long did it take you?”

“Approximately one-millionth of a nanosecond. I was about how all things are related, from disorder to order...”

“...History is unstable, technology breaks through spatiotemporal boundaries; we are experiencing a post-historical time.”

“Exactly, A new generation of culture.”

00 Zhang is a Chinese artist based in London. 00’s practice spans performance, generative and virtual installations, motivated by the investigation of a double-sided exile. 00 intertwines embodiment with elaborate cybernetic concepts, depicting an integration of agent and environment, through complex narratives.

00 has created work for Shanghai Fashion Week 2020, PUBG Mobile, The British Museum, Nike, Dior, Balenciaga and AND Festival Liverpool.

00 was an artist and avatar for SPUR’s 2020-2021 programme.

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