《空想重置》是一个系统，它延续了颜磊将图像消解为概念的实践，并由此开展一个新的开拓性尝试。这件作品将呈现一个大型装置，其采用最新的计算机计算系统和网络技术，重申艺术家关于再现之人造性和图像之相关性的观点。
在一个大型旋转圆形结构上安装有80台数字显示器。每一台显示器都通过网络接入同一个系统。这个系统经过程序化的设定后不间断地显示图像，这些图像来源包含：一个本地数据库，以及观众从手机中自主上传的图片。当参观者进入展厅后，他/她将收到无线网络的连接邀请，从而得以与此雕塑的局域网直接相连。每当观众上传一张图像，系统软件将对此图像进行处理，并计算其平均像素值；与此同时，本地人工神经网络则模拟人类的行为，将图像的内容以文本的形式描述出来。几秒钟以后，新的图像又将同时出现在所有屏幕上，这一过程包含三重叙事：原始图像；图像经过平均化后得到的单色画面；描述图像内容的文本。这些信息全部储存在本地数据库中，为此雕塑之后反复使用。当系统在没有获得观众上传的新图像时，此雕塑将在其各层旋转屏幕上不间断随机播放由之前观众上传的图像。
Rêverie Reset is a system which takes Yan Lei’s practice of dissolving images into concepts to a new instance. A large scale installation which makes use of cutting edge computational systems and networking technologies in order to reaffirm the artist’s notion of the artificiality of representation and the irrelevance of the image.
80 digital displays are mounted onto a large scale rotating cylindrical structure. Each display is networked to a system programmed to constantly show images from a local database and submitted by the audience through their mobile phones. When a user enters the space, he or she is asked to connect to a WiFi network, this allows him/her to connect directly to the sculpture. Every time an image is uploaded to the system, the software will process it by calculating its average pixel color while the local artificial neural network describes the image, textually, in human like terms. After a few seconds, the new image is simultaneously shown in all screens on a three-step narrative: the original image, the average flat color, and the text describing the image. This information is all saved on the local database and used in the future by the sculpture. When no user is connected and no new image uploaded to the system, the sculpture, on its rotating layers of screens, keeps showing random images from previous users.
