Virtual Media Archaeology in Futuristic Perspective： The Case of Ancient Chinese Technological Metaverse
本課研項目以廣義元宇宙背景下的多人在線虛擬場景作為實驗對象，在空間中感知過去、現在、未來為時空背景下的以中國古代宇宙論延續的中國古代科技在多人在線虛擬場景平台作為分析創作，旨在從未來學視野下中國古代宇宙論在元宇宙空間中其動能設想作為社會意識形態涉及的相關技術推演，對空間、時間、社交距離、尺度、倫理等問題進行中國古代技術人文關懷下的主題探討。
未來學視野下，从德國媒體理論學者齊林斯基的媒介深層時間感知。獲得對中國文化語境下的另類媒介實驗，成為對媒介思維創想的另類可能。其著作《Variations On Media Thinking》，提到從人類智力史上的Master thinkers現象，敢於以博古通今的視野，打開思維僵局，建構另後世驚嘆其創意性的Master Model（科學與技術史）。虛擬媒介考古在看似已成定義的框架之下，思考獲得逃避的可能，通向可能延展的可誤之學。
多人在線虛擬空間成為了中國古代科技中需要不斷校正的對象，人與時空間的關係成為了一個需要不斷重新校正距離與基準。媒介感受的重新再發生，因其模擬性以及互動的方式，如同代入式的感知過程，也是對所謂真相的再次模擬生成。如何在文化實驗的空間，獲得看似合理的存在。本項目評估了現今元宇宙平台、VR虛擬現實場景所提供的具身體驗可能提出質疑（目前的觀感甚至在某種意義上仍然是離身的），因此重新喚起以中國宇宙論特性（天人合一的貫通時空觀）的古代科技作為對身體理論與媒介共情成為鮮活樣本。這種建構方式不僅作為一個對媒介觀察與文化實驗的組合描述，更是一種思考當下的方式，即一種存在於傳統理解框架之外的認知策略。
This Project takes a multi-person online virtual scene in a broad metaverse context as an experimental object, and perceives the past, present and future in space as the spatio-temporal context of ancient Chinese cosmology in a multi-person online virtual scene platform as an analytical creation, aiming at the kinetic design of ancient Chinese cosmology in the metaverse space from a futuristic perspective as a related technical derivation of social ideology, and to explore the issues of space, time, social distance, scale and ethics under the humanistic care of ancient Chinese technology. The aim is to explore the themes of space, time, social distance, scale and ethics in the context of ancient Chinese technological and humanistic concerns.
In the futuristic perspective, the deep time perception of media from the German media theorist Zielinsky is explored. The book "Variations On Media" is an alternative media experiment in the Chinese cultural context, which is an alternative possibility for the creation of media thinking. In his book Variations On Media Thinking, he refers to the phenomenon of Master thinkers in the history of the human intellect and dares to open up the deadlock of thinking with a broad vision of the past and the present, constructing a Master Model (history of science and technology) that will amaze future generations with its creativity. Virtual media archaeology contemplates the possibility of escapism within a seemingly defined framework, leading to a potentially extended science of misunderstanding.
The multi-person online virtual space becomes an object of constant correction in ancient Chinese technology, and the relationship between human and space-time becomes a distance and a benchmark to be constantly recalibrated. The re-occurrence of media perception, by virtue of its similitude and interaction, is a process of vicarious perception and a re-simulation of the so-called truth. How to achieve a seemingly rational existence in the space of cultural experimentation. This paper assesses the possibility of questioning the embodied experience offered by today's metaverse platforms and VR virtual reality scenes (the current perception is even in a sense still disembodied), and thus reawakens the ancient technology of Chinese cosmological identity (the unified view of heaven and man through space and time) as a vivid model of body theory and media empathy. This construction serves not only as a description of a combination of media observation and cultural experimentation, but also as a way of thinking about the present, a cognitive strategy that exists outside the framework of traditional understanding.