Changing the Relationships Among People:

Making the Presence of Others a Positive Experience

改变人际关系：

让他人存在成为正面因素

Traditional media, such as paintings, do not change in relation to the presence of viewers or their behavior. The artwork is based on a relationship with an individual viewer. For the majority of art up until now, the presence of other viewers tends to constitute a hindrance. If you happen to find yourself alone at an exhibition, you would consider yourself to be very lucky.

传统媒介如绘画，并不以众多观众的存在或行为有所转移。艺术作品的欣赏建立在作品与个体观众的关系上。在欣赏现今大多数艺术形式时，其他观众的存在往往是一种妨碍。如果你在欣赏一个展览时，发现除你之外别无他人，那么你一定会觉得自己非常走运。

When an artwork changes based on the presence or behavior of viewers, it causes the boundaries between artwork and viewer to become blurred. In this case, the viewer becomes part of the artwork itself. Similarly, when the artwork changes due to the presence of others, those people also become part of the artwork. This changes the relationship between an artwork and an individual into the relationship between an artwork and a group of individuals. Whether a viewer was present five minutes ago, or how the person next to you is behaving now, suddenly becomes important. Digital art has the ability to change the relationships among people who are present within the same space. If the interaction of other people with an artwork creates change that we feel is beautiful, then the presence of others can in itself become a positive element.

若一件艺术作品由于观众的存在或行为有所变化，那么这件作品与观众之间的界限将被模糊，观众则变成了作品的一部分。同样，若一件作品由于其他观众的存在或行为有所改变，那么这些观众也成为作品的一部分。作品与人之间的关系由作品与个体观众的关系变成了作品与一群观众的关系。五分钟前是否有人站在旁边或旁边的人现在正在做什么，类似的问题突然变得至关重要。数字艺术则可以改变同一空间中的人际关系。如果他人与作品的互动能使这件作品变得更加美丽，那么其他观众的存在本身就可以成为一项正面的因素。

This applies not only to art. Even in modern cities, the presence of others might be considered uncomfortable. We cannot understand or control others, so their existence around us is something that is simply tolerated. This is because the city does not change based on your existence or that of others. If cities were to become more like digital artworks, the presence of other people could become a positive element. In this way, the search for new relationships between people may be able to go beyond art, potentially creating new relationships between cities and individuals, as well as new ways to bring peace among people.

不仅艺术，其他领域也是如此。即便在现代城市中，他人的存在都常常令人不适。我们无法完全理解或控制他人，因此只好容忍他人的存在。这是因为城市本身不会因为你或他人的存在而有所改变。要是城市能像数字艺术作品一样，他人存在就可以成为一种正面的因素。这样说来，对于新型人际关系的追求就可以不仅限于艺术范围，而延伸至建立城市与人之间的新型关系，以及寻求人与人之间和平共处的新方法。