中式梦核图像是一类由网生代亚文化群体创造的互联网图像艺术, 通过怀旧复古风格表现中国社会在21世纪初特定历史阶段的媒介物与文化符号。作为“核”系视觉艺术的重要子类型, 中式梦核图像远离历史叙事, 聚焦个体日常生活之物, 以怀旧的姿态和超现实的语汇在移动互联网时代重建早期网络文化记忆。在图像表达主题、创作冲动和观看体验等方面, 中式梦核图像都体现出以物为导向的“核”系美学及其阈限性内涵。重混的操作逻辑和媒介处境令中式梦核图像成为一种自我揭露的元图像, 除了激发个体对过去成长记忆的怀念之外, 还显示出某种无时间性症候, 令读者处在无法测度自我于数字世界位置的眩晕状态。中式梦核图像之所以能在众多“核”系视觉艺术中自成一格, 显露出独特的风格要素与艺术潜能, 正在于它刻写了本土“Z世代”青少年群体的野性生长之力, 以乌托邦的形式抒发了新千年带来的种种未知、加速、失衡感受。

Chinese Dreamcore Image is a kind of Internet image art created by the subculture group of the Internet generation which expresses the media condition and cultural icons of Chinese society at the beginning of the 21st century through a nostalgic retro style. As an important subgenre of the Internet Core Aesthetics, Chinese Dreamcore Image are always getting rid of historical narratives, expressing individual quotidian memories, and reconstructing online cultural memories with nostalgic gestures and surreal vocabulary. In terms of expressing themes, creative impulses, and viewing experiences through images, Chinese Dreamcore images embody the “core” aesthetics guided by objects and their threshold connotations. The operational logic and media context of remixing make Chinese dream core images a self revealing meta. image. In addition to evoking memories of past growth, it also exhibits a certain timeless syndrome, leaving readers in a dizzying state where they cannot measure their own position in the digital world. The reason why Chinese Dream Core imagery can stand out among numerous “core” visual arts, revealing unique style. elements and artistic potential, is that it carves the wild growth power of the local “Z generation” youth group, expressing various unknown, accelerated, and imbalanced feelings brought about by the new millennium in a utopian form.