{"id":146,"date":"2022-01-22T14:37:33","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T19:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/s2022\/?p=146"},"modified":"2022-01-22T14:37:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T19:37:33","slug":"solar-lookingoutwards01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/s2022\/solar\/01\/22\/solar-lookingoutwards01\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar &#8211; LookingOutwards01"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Cao Fei&#8217;s <em>RMB City<\/em>, 2008<\/h5>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-152\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/s2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/rmb-city-a-second-life-city-planning-a-project-by-cao-fei-rmb-city-cao-fei-stirworld-200825012142-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/s2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/rmb-city-a-second-life-city-planning-a-project-by-cao-fei-rmb-city-cao-fei-stirworld-200825012142-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/s2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/rmb-city-a-second-life-city-planning-a-project-by-cao-fei-rmb-city-cao-fei-stirworld-200825012142-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/s2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/rmb-city-a-second-life-city-planning-a-project-by-cao-fei-rmb-city-cao-fei-stirworld-200825012142-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/s2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/rmb-city-a-second-life-city-planning-a-project-by-cao-fei-rmb-city-cao-fei-stirworld-200825012142-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/s2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/rmb-city-a-second-life-city-planning-a-project-by-cao-fei-rmb-city-cao-fei-stirworld-200825012142-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/s2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/rmb-city-a-second-life-city-planning-a-project-by-cao-fei-rmb-city-cao-fei-stirworld-200825012142.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cao Fei\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RMB City<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 2008 is a virtual adaptation of China\u2019s urban landscape, where audiences are players with a personalized avatar. Cao Fei features landmarks that are symbols of China\u2019s prosperity in her virtual world, providing a land of open possibilities, yet she presents them in ruins to reveal the harsh realities of China&#8217;s industrial growth. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the main elements of the work that I admire is its continual evolution as users build their own desires in this virtual utopia and are updated with new events that mimick the transformations in China in real life. More interestingly, such interplay between the real and the virtual is able to successfully construct a cyber-space where residents carry out lives satisfying their fantasies and escape harsh realities. I also admire the programming of the movement of the avatar panning the environment, tilting its head, and walking around, which resembles human behaviour and provides a higher element of virtual life and immersion of the environment. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RMB City<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> also features background sounds that often reflect the loud constructions of a developing urban city, as one would in real life. This work seems to stem from some of her previous works that explore China\u2019s cosplay culture and the popularity of gaming in the younger generations and the routine of waking up and immersing oneself in the fictional realm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The video attached goes deeper into how Cao Fei built <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RMB City:<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cao Fei: Building &quot;RMB City&quot; | Art21 &quot;Extended Play&quot;\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qi_jrNGa9RM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cao Fei&#8217;s RMB City, 2008 Cao Fei\u2019s RMB City, 2008 is a virtual adaptation of China\u2019s urban landscape, where audiences are players with a personalized avatar. Cao Fei features landmarks that are symbols of China\u2019s prosperity in her virtual world, providing a land of open possibilities, yet she presents them in ruins to reveal the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/s2022\/solar\/01\/22\/solar-lookingoutwards01\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Solar &#8211; LookingOutwards01&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/s2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/s2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/s2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/s2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/s2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/s2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/s2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/s2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/s2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/s2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}