“Abstract Oracle Miner 0009328437" is an iteration of Guo's installation work, “Abstract Oracle Generator." The “miner" is a virtual device producing different acronym combinations, which act like prophecies responding to questions raised by participants—or whoever is wandering in the digital world. Through rendering several complex 3D scenes, the algorithm takes the hardware performance evaluation values as random seeds to generate a “virtual oracle." During the process, the temperature of hardware running the webpage may rise, the cooling fan may generate noises and the image rendering may slow down. In other words, the “oracle" takes the offering from the hardware—the foundational structure of the virtual world, reminding viewers that the “virtual" is by no means effortless, weightless, or light as a feather. The “oracle” produced by the computing power consumption is objectively “better" than other forms of human divination, and the abstraction of the conjured visions can expand participants’ imagination.

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“抽象神谕矿机 0009328437”是郭城作品“抽象神谕生成器”的迭代。这台“矿机”是一台虚拟设备，不断产生不同的缩略语组合，它会给参与者——或者任何游弋在数字世界的人——提供“神谕”。通过渲染数个复杂的三维场景，这套算法将用户电脑的硬件网络性能评估值作为随机种子，并生成“虚拟神谕”。在整个过程中，运行作品的硬件温度可能会上升，冷却风扇可能会发出噪音，图像渲染速度可能会下降。换言之，这个“神谕”以硬件这一虚拟世界的基础结构作为祭品，它不断提醒着观众，“虚拟”从来不是轻如鸿毛、无中生有的。而这套由计算机算力消耗产生的“神谕”似乎客观上比人类占卜更为客观，而它所变幻出的抽象场景也扩充了观众的想象力。

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