Evolution – The Future of the Public

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot (born 1961, Nice), started out as a composer. He is globally renowned for his sonic installations which use rhythms taken from the natural world and everyday life to explore the relationships between sound, space, and movement. Boursier-Mougenot makes use of household objects and natural materials to create his installations, immersing viewers in a three-dimensional sensory experience and guiding them towards a sensory rediscovery of the world around them by means of a new and refined perspective.

Representing France in the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015, Boursier-Mougenot has also held solo exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world, including the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Canada (2015); the Centre Pompidou Metz, France (2015); the Palais de Tokyo, France (2015), the Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom (2010); the Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy (2011); La Maison Rouge, Paris, France (2010); the Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo, Brazil (2009); and the FRAC, Reims, France (2008). His work appears in collections at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; the Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia; The San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, USA; the Fonds National d’art Contemporain, France; as well as in various other French national collections.

Cao Fei
Born in 1978 in Guangzhou, currently living and working in Beijing. Cao Fei is a Chinese artist active in the international art world. Her works blend social commentary, pop culture aesthetics, references to surrealism, and documentary film making techniques to reflect the rapid and developmental changes taking place within contemporary Chinese society. Her works have been exhibited in numerous art institutions and in international biennales and triennales.

Cao Fei’s major projects from recent years include: a solo exhibition at MoMA PS1, New York (2016); a commission for the “BMW Art Car Collection” (2017); participation in the “Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Chinese Art Initiative” at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2018); a solo exhibition at the Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong; a solo retrospective exhibition at K21, Düsseldorf; a solo exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, Paris (2019); an augmented reality project carried out in collaboration with Apple and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; and a solo exhibition entitled “Blueprints” at the Serpentine Galleries, London (2020). More recent projects include a solo exhibition entitled “Staging the Era” at the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, and a solo exhibition at the MAXXI - National Museum of 21st Century Art, Rome.

Cao Fei is currently a professor and postgraduate advisor at the School of Experimental Art at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. She has also been on The Selection Committee for the Curatorship of the 8th Berlin Biennale (2014); the jury of The Bonnefanten Award for Contemporary Art, the Netherlands (2016); the jury of the Hugo Boss Asia Art Prize for Best Emerging Artist (2019); and as a nominator on the artist selection committee for Muse: The Rolls-Royce Art Program global art project.

Leandro Erlich
Born in Argentina in 1973, currently living and working in Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Montevideo (Uruguay). As a conceptual artist, his work explores the perceptual foundations of reality and our capacity to interrogate these basic theories through a visual framework. The architecture of the everyday serves as a recurring theme in Erlich’s art, which aims to create a dialogue between what we believe and what we see, just as he seeks to close the distance between the museum or gallery space and daily experience.

His renowned installation “Bâtiment” has been exhibited in countries around the world (France, the UK, Australia, Japan, Argentina, Ukraine, Austria). His recent works include: “Seeing and Believing” at the MORI Art Museum, Tokyo (2017); “Liminal” at MALBA, Buenos Aires (2019); and “The Confines of The Great Void” at the CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China (2019).

Feng Mengbo
Feng Mengbo was born in Beijing in 1966, graduated from the printmaking department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1991, and currently resides and works in Beijing. He is currently a professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Feng Mengbo was among the first artists in China to pay attention to and utilise digital technology, completing China’s first interactive artwork, My Private Album as early as 1996. Though Feng Mengbo is particularly well known for his use of videogames in his creations, his artistic practice also encompasses painting, calligraphy, installation, photography, videography, musical performance, and writing.

Feng Mengbo has participated in the 45th Venice Biennale, the 10th and 11th Kassel Documenta, the Lyon Biennale, the Johannesburg Biennale, the Kwangju Biennale, the Asia Pacific Triennale, the Shanghai Biennale, the Guangzhou Triennale, and other major international exhibitions. He has also held solo exhibitions at MoMA PS1, New York; The Dia Center for the Arts; The Renaissance Society, Chicago; the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei; the Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague; the UCCA; and the Today Art Museum. His works are held in collections in both domestic and international institutions such as The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Guggenheim Museum; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum; M+, Hong Kong; and the CAFA Art Museum.

Ge Yulu
Born in 1990 in Wuhan in Hubei Province, Ge Yulu graduated from the Hubei Institute of Fine arts in 2013 with a major in Image Media and received an MFA in experimental art from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2018. He currently works and lives in the outskirts of Beijing. Ge Yulu’s interests are mostly focused on playful acts of expression carried out in public urban spaces. Through his works, he attempts to satirise the hidden contradictions present in everyday life. By using his own body to intervene in and negotiate public spaces, Ge Yulu attempts to create new and dynamic relationships.

His solo exhibitions have been held at both the Beijing Commune and the Fei Art Museum in Guangzhou. Some of his recent exhibitions include: “From Luther to Twitter. Media and the Public Spere” at the German Historical Museum, Berlin, Germany (2020); “Taming Y/Our Passion” at the Aichi Triennale, Nagoya, Japan (2019); “The 1st Borderless Art Season”, at the Fei Art Museum, Guangzhou, China (2018); “Altering Home” at the 21st Century Museum of Art, Kanazawa, Japan (2018); “The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China” at the Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China (2018); “Stress Field” for the 4th Documentary Exhibition of Fine Arts at Hubei Art Museum, Wuhan, China (2017); “Antibody Fresh Vision 2017” at the Hua Art Museum, Shenzhen, China (2017); and participation in the CAFAM Biennial: Negotiating Space, at the CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China (2016). He was shortlisted for the 2019 Art 8 Youth Finalist Award as well as the 13th AAC Art China Young Artist Finalist Award (2019). In 2020, his self-titled Beijing solo exhibition, “Ge Yulu” won Gallery Weekend Beijing’s “Best Exhibition Award - Innovation Prize”.

Huang Jieyuan
Huang Jieyuan (born 1992) currently works in Berlin, Linz, and in an online space called Image Field Space. He is the founder of the ongoing project Image Field, in which he has launched a number of long-term research initiatives on topics ranging from online space, digital authority, visual power, media art, and the environment. This project also involves practices such as art curation, internet projects, and media experimentation. His works have been exhibited in numerous art institutions, both domestically and internationally, such as at the Ars Electronica, the Ars Electronica Center, the Times Art Museum, and at the Experimental Art section of the National Art Exhibition. His writings have been published in conference proceedings be ACM. He holds an MFA in Art in Context from the Berlin University of the Arts, with a research focus on “Artworks in the Context of Science and Media Image Production”.

Jia Zhangke
Born in Fenyang, Shanxi Province, Jia Zhangke studied at the Beijing Film Academy. His directorial debut “Pickpocket” won awards at a number of international film festivals such as in Berlin and Vancouver. Since the start of his filmmaking career in 1998, he has directed a total of 13 feature films and a great many short films. His major directorial works include “Pickpocket” (1998), “Platform” (2000), “In Public” (2001), “Unknown Pleasures” (2002), “The World” (2004), “Dong” (2006), “Still Life” (2006), “Useless” (2007), “24 City” (2008), “I Wish I Knew” (2010), “A Touch of Sin” (2013), “Mountains May Depart” (2015), “Ash Is Purest White” (2018), and “Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue” (2020). Among these, “Still Life” won the Golden Lion Award for Best Film at the 63rd Venice International Film Festival and “A Touch of Sin” won the award for Best Screenplay at the 66th Cannes Film Festival. In 2010, Jia Zhangke won the Honorary Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland. In 2015 he won the Carrosse d’Or lifetime achievement award at the Cannes Film Festival Directors’ Fortnight. 

Liu Jianhua
Born in 1962, currently living and working in Shanghai, Liu Jianhua uses mixed materials as his primary medium and is recognised as one of the most experimental and representative artists working in the Chinese contemporary art world. He began attempting to create experimental creations in a contemporary context in 1989. Liu Jianhua’s works reflect the continual difficulties brought upon China in recent years due to economic and societal changes. In 2008, he moved his attention away from the numerous problems brought about by globalisation and the rapid transformation of Chinese society, issues which had, for many years prior, been points of close and immediate focus for the artist, toward “that which is without meaning or content”, as concept from which to create. Starting with his 2008 work “Untitled”, the artist embarked on an entirely new path of exploration, developing a system of personal language for contemporary art.

Liu Jianhua has been invited to exhibit his works at a number of institutions and events, including: the Smart Museum of Art (2020); a solo exhibition at OCAT Shenzhen (2019); LACMA (2019), a solo exhibition at the Fondazione Made in Cloister, Naples, Italy (2018); an exhibition on Minimalism at the National Gallery Singapore; the 57th Venice Biennale “Viva Arte Viva” theme exhibition; the 6th Echigo-Tsumari Art Field Triennale, Japan; the 14th Carrara International Sculpture Biennale, Italy; the 17th Biennale of Sydney; the 2nd Moscow Biennale; the 1st Singapore Biennale; the 6th Shanghai Biennale; the China Pavilion at the 50th Venice Biennale; the Museum of Fine Arts Bern, Switzerland; the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; the Groninger Museum, the Netherlands; Museum Ludwig, Vienna, Austria; the Hamburg Art Center, Germany; the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; the Tate Modern, London; and the Pompidou Centre, France. Liu Jianhua’s work can be found in the collections of art institutions such as: the Tate Modern, London; The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Towada Art Center, Japan; The Guggenheim Museum, New York; and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. 

Miao Xiaochun

1964, Born in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province
1989, Graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts with an MA Degree
1999, Graduated from the Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany, with an MA Degree
2000-Present, Professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, works and lives in Beijing
2016-2017, Visiting professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe, Germany

Miao Xiaochun works in a number of formats, including photography, painting, 3D computer animations based on software creations, and algorithmic painting and sculpture, and his creations have been exhibited across a broad array of international platforms. He has participated in events such as: the China Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale (2013); the 7th Asia Pacific Triennale (2012); the 1st Kyiv Biennial (2012); the 4th Guangzhou Triennial (2012); the Busan Biennale (2008); the Seoul International Media Art Biennale (2006); the Shanghai Biennale (2002); as well as in “Between Past and Future” (2004-2006), a touring exhibition which visited art galleries in cities such as New York, Chicago, London, and Berlin. His works can be found in major public collections at institutions such as: the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, the USC Pacific Asia Museum; Museum Ludwig, Vienna; the Fonds National d’art Contemporain, France; the Singapore Art Museum; the Shanghai Art Museum; the Guangdong Museum of Art; M+, Hong Kong; the Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul; The Broad, USA; the Sigg Collection, Switzerland; the Goetz Collection, Munich; the Zabludowicz Collection, London; and the DSL Collection, Paris.

Song Dong
Born in Beijing in 1966. Graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Capital Normal University in 1989. Lives and works in Beijing.

Emerging from the early Chinese avant-garde art movement, Song Dong became an important artist with international influence in the developing field of Chinese contemporary art. His art forms span a number of fields, from performance, to videography, installation, sculpture, installation, photography, conceptual painting, curating, and theatre, and explore the idea of the transience of human behaviour. He creates and lives using the concept of “boundlessness”. 

He has participated in numerous international exhibitions, such as: the Kassel Documenta; the Venice Biennale; the São Paulo Art Biennial; and the Kwangju Biennale. He has also held large scale solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Groninger Museum, the Netherlands; the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; and the Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai. Among the awards he has won are: the Kwangju Biennale Grand Prize; the Chinese Contemporary Art Award (CCAA) for Outstanding Achievement; the AAC Video and Installation Artist of the Year Award; and the Power 100 of Chinese Contemporary Art: Artist of the Year. His works can be found in the collections of major museums and art institutions such as: the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Guggenheim Museum; the Tate Modern, the UK; the Centre Pompidou, France; M+, Hong Kong; and the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art.

Su Xinping
Born 1960 in Jining in Inner Mongolia, Su Xinping joined the army to carry out military service in 1977, graduated from the Painting Department of the Tianjin Institute of Fine Arts in 1983, and then taught as a professor in the Fine Arts Department of Inner Mongolia Normal University after graduation. He is currently the Vice President of the Central Academy of Fine Arts where he is also a professor and doctoral supervisor.

Recent Solo Exhibitions
2021 “Transcendence and Rén Jiān: Su Xinping & Christopher Le Brun”, Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning, Shenzhen, China
2019 “Su Xinping: Everything is Still and Timeless”, Suzhou Museum, Suzhou, China
“Su Xinping”, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
2017 “Fictional Reality: Su Xinping Works”, He Art Museum, Wuhan, China

Recent Joint Exhibitions
2020 “Six Boxes: Contemporary Art Exhibition”, Yuelai Art Museum, Chongqing, China
2019 “The Gaze of History: Contemporary Chinese Art Revisited”, The Jupiter Museum of Art, Shenzhen, China
2018 “Facing East: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition on “The 1960s””, Shanghai New Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China

Sui Jianguo
Sui Jianguo was born in Qingdao, Shandong Province in 1956, graduated from the Fine Arts Department of the Shandong University of Arts in 1984 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, and graduated from the Sculpture Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1989 with an MFA. He currently lives and works in Beijing. He is a senior professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Over the course of his artistic practice of more than forty years, Sui Jianguo has gained a deep understanding of and unique insights into many areas, such as creative concepts, artistic forms, selection of medium, and spatial experimentation. He has held numerous solo exhibitions at art institutions around the world, in locations such as New York, Los Angeles, San Fransisco, Paris, Frankfurt, London, The Hague, Taipei, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Shenzhen. He has also participated in many important international art biennales. His works can be found in major private and institutional art collections both domestically and internationally.

Li Feng
Graduated with a PhD from Sun Yat-sen University in 2017 with a primary research focus in the philosophy of science and technology. Li Feng has published numerous papers on virtual reality and AI in CSSCI publications. Currently an assistant researcher at the Research Center for Contemporary Visual Art of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, deputy director of the Institute of Art and Science, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Central Academy of Fine Arts where he is engaged in interdisciplinary research and creative work in the fields of both art and science.  

Theo Triantafyllidis
Theo Triantafyllidis (born 1988, Athens, Greece) is an artist who builds virtual spaces and the interfaces for the human body to inhabit them. In the complex worlds and systems that he creates, the virtual and the physical merge in uncanny, absurd, and poetic ways, often manifesting as performances, virtual and augmented reality experiences, games, and interactive installations. He makes use of awkward interactive methods and unstable physical phenomena to invite viewers to display, participate in, and challenge these “alternate” realities. Through the lens of “monster theory”, he investigates the internal limits of the themes of isolation, sex, and violence. He uses computational humour and AI improvisation to respond to the agenda of the tech industry. He tries to give back to the online and gaming communities that he considers both the inspiration and context for his work by remaining an active participant and long-term contributor.

He has an MFA in Design Media from UCLA and a Diploma of Architecture from the National Technical University of Athens. His works have been exhibited at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles; the NRW Forum in Düsseldorf, Germany; the Meredith Rosen Gallery; The Breeder; the Eduardo Secci; and Transfer. He has participated in group exhibitions such as: Sundance New Frontier 2020; the Hpyer Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale; and the 2018 Athens Biennale: ANTI-. Theo Triantafyllidis currently lives in Los Angeles.

Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Apichatpong Weerasethakul (born 1970, Bangkok) grew up in Khon Kaen, north-eastern Thailand and graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago. He currently works and lives in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He started making films and video shorts in 1994 and completed his first feature film in 2000. He has also mounted exhibitions and installations in many countries since 1998 and is now recognised as one of the most important international visual artists in the world. Exceptional in their lyricism, his films are often imbued with a sense of mystery, depict both personal and collective memory in a non-linear manner, and subtly evoke personal, political, and social issues.

 As an independent Thai filmmaker, Apichatpong founded the production company Kick the Machine Films in 1999, dedicated to promoting the development of experimental and independent cinema. Apichatpong is recognised as being among the most original filmmakers of this generation. His feature films, short films, and installations have all received international acclaim and won numerous awards, including four prizes from the Cannes Film Festival.

His large-scale retrospective exhibition “The Serenity of Madness” premiered at the MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum in Chiang Mai in 2016, before embarking on a global tour to Para Site art space in Hong Kong (2016); Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD), Manila, Philippines (2017); the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Chicago (2017); the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, USA (2018); and the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, China (2019). Other recent solo exhibitions include “Periphery of the Night”, Musée d’art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France (2021); “Luminous Shadows”, the Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania (2018); and “Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Monuments”, at ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai, China (2017).

He has also participated in various group exhibitions and biennales, such as: the Guangzhou Image Triennale 2021: “Rethinking Collectivity”, the Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou (2021); the 58th Venice Biennale: “May you Live in Interesting Times”, Venice, Italy (2019); the 2018 Gwangju Biennale: “Imagined Borders”, Gwangju, South Korea (2018); “Sunshower: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now”, the National Art Center, Tokyo, the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, the Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan (2017); “Ghosts and Spectres – Shadows of History”, the Nanyang Technological University Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore (2017); the 14th Lyon Biennale: “Floating Worlds”, Lyon, France (2017).

Wu Ziyang
Wu Ziyang is an artist currently living and working in New York and Beijing. He currently holds teaching positions at The School of Visual Arts New York City and the New York University Tisch School of the Arts and is a member of the NEW INC project at the New Museum. His recent practices focus on how virtual worlds, data, and algorithms exercise ubiquitous and invisible forces to micro-alienate and reconstruct humans in a highly globalised post-internet era.

He has an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA from the Florence Academy of Fine Arts. His works, ranging from video, augmented reality (AR), motion capture performance, AI simulations, to interactive video installations, have been shown as solo exhibitions at various international institutions, including: the Annka Kultys Gallery, London; the Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York; the Hatch Art Project, Singapore; and the CO2 Gallery in Florence. He has also participated in group exhibitions at the Riccardi Medici Palace, Florence, Italy; Milan Design Week; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA; Rhizome at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; the Walker Art Center; the Rochester Art Center, Minnesota; Providence Biennial for Contemporary Art, Brown University, Rhode Island, University of Maryland Art Gallery; The Hole Contemporary art gallery, the Eli Klein Gallery, and Microscope Gallery, New York; the Today Art Museum and the Times Art Museum, Beijing; the Powerlong Museum, Shanghai; and the Artron Art Center, Shenzhen. 

He has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowship opportunities, including: Residency Unlimited; MacDowell Fellowship, Artist-in-residence at the Institute for Electronic Arts, Alfred University; Art(ists) on the Verge Fellowship by Northern Lights.mn and the Jerome Foundation; AACYF Top 30 under 30; an Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD) Teaching Fellowship; and an award from the Robert Rauschenberg Art Foundation and Artsy for the ROCI Road to Peace exhibition. His works have been featured in publications such as It’s Nice That, Hypebeast, Artnet, Wall Street International, New York Foundation for the Arts, Neural Magazine, Vie Des Arts Magazine, and ANTE Magazine.

Xu Bing
Born in Chongqing, China in 1955, Xu Bing received a bachelor’s degree from the Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 1981, and received a master’s degree in Fine Art from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1987. He moved to the United States in 1990 and returned to China in 2007 to take up the roles of professor and Vice President at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He resigned from the position of Vice President in 2015 to focus on creative work. He currently works as a professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts and as the head of the institution’s Academic Committee. He divides his time between Beijing and New York, where he lives and works.

Xu Bing’s works have been exhibited at art institutions such as: the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA; the Sackler National Gallery, Washington, D.C., USA; and The British Museum, London. His works have also participated in international exhibitions such as the 45th, 51st, and 56th Venice Biennales, the Biennale of Sydney, and the São Paulo Art Biennial. In 1999, he received the United State’s most prestigious award for personal achievement, the MacArthur Award, also known as the “Genius Grant”, for his “originality, creativity, personal direction, and significant contributions to society, especially in the domains of printmaking and calligraphy”. In 2006, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement in Printmaking Award from the Southern Graphics Council in recognition of the fact that his “use of text, language, and books has impacted the dialogue of the print and art worlds in significant ways”. In 2010, he was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Columbia University, and in 2015, he received the 2014 Medal of Arts from the U.S. Department of State for his efforts to promote cultural tolerance through his works. In April of the same year, he was appointed as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large by Cornell University in the United States.

Liu Jiaying
Liu Jiaying has worked at Tencent headquarters as the Chief Product Designer of Global SNS in the International Business Department. In 2016, she enrolled in the Central Academy of Fine Arts to pursue a master’s degree. During her studies, she focused on using underlying blockchain technology and the continual exploration of unique artistic languages. In 2017, she founded a blockchain enterprise and established the Singapore Foundation ProChain, whose products include Prabox (No. 1 in EOS ecological traffic), TopBidder (among the top 10 in EOS ecological traffic), and the financial (Defi class) product YFII, which is currently ranked 68th in global market capitalisation, and as of 2020, had been launched on three major exchanges, OKEX, Firecoin, and Binance.

Wu Yue
Curator, writer, translator. Currently studying for a master’s degree at Harvard University. Received a B.A. magna cum laude in Art History from New York University. Served as Project Manager at contemporary artist Xu Bing’s studio and planned and coordinated many of his major exhibitions, including the inaugural overseas showing of the large-scale touring retrospective exhibition “Xu Bing: Thought and Method”. She has worked as an intern at New York’s Guggenheim Museum, the Grey Art Gallery, the Armory Show, as well as the Harvard FAS CAMLab. Her curated exhibition “Flatland Guerrillas: Unite! Digital Voyagers” was selected for the “Emerging Curators Project 2020” at the Power Station of Art Museum, Shanghai.

 
He Jingfei
Architect, curator, author. Currently studying for a master’s degree in architecture at Yale University. Graduated from the University of Tokyo’s Architecture Department with an undergraduate degree, worked as a columnist for the Japanese architectural publication “Architecture Magazine”, contributed to the Japanese art magazine “Art Collective”, authored “Stripped Bare – City Under House Arrest”, which won first place in Japan’s Graduate Design Competition’s “Japanese Grand Final” and was published in the Chinese architecture publication “Architectural Journal”. His curatorial project “Spectral Landscape” was shortlisted for the 2020 Hyundai Blue Prize competition for young Chinese curators. “Flatland Guerrillas: Unite! Digital Voyagers”, an exhibition curated in collaboration with Wu Yue, was selected for the “Emerging Curators Project 2020” at the Power Station of Art Museum, Shanghai.

Luo Wei
Luo Wei graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts. She is committed to broadening limits of her understanding of the world and exploring the relationship between cognition and material. Her works have been exhibited at various art institutions, including: The Broad, USA; esea contemporary, Manchester, the UK; the Grand Palais, Paris, France; the K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong; the Times Art Museum, Beijing; and the Powerlong Museum, Shanghai.

Wang Zhongyao
Wang Zhongyao was born in Harbin in 1996 and graduated from the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts. In 2019 she began working at Xu Bing’s studio, with a recent focus on crypto art and feminism. Her works are often inspired by social scenes, make use of three-dimensional animation, photography, static materials, and archival data to create a poetic and lyrical artistic style that lies between fiction and allegory.

Zhao Rundong
Zhao Rundong, born in Hangzhou in 1998, graduated from the School of Intermedia Art at the China Academy of Art in 2021. As part of generation growing up in the vortex of the internet, Zhao Rundong’s creations are closely connected to contemporary society and youth culture. His creations focus on the state of existence of the new generation of young people nurtured by digital technology, and explore issues such as the landscape of consumerism, information security, cultural conflict, and neo-colonialism by using a romanticism rooted in post-orientalism.

In_K
In_K is a codename used by new media artist Bi Zhenyu to explore and create interactive digital images. In 2011, In_K established the visual team “Neuron”, a group which has participated in performances of varying sizes, ranging from underground parties, music festivals, concerts, gaining extensive experience in live visual performance in the process. In_K maintains a keen focus on “technology”, and believes that “technology” is both a creative material and an extension of the senses that works together with humanity in a process in which the boundaries or each party are shaped and extended by the other. In_K uses programming and real-time image generation to create works ranging from video performance to interactive modern dance pieces, light and video installations, immersive video exhibitions, VR, MR, and AI art.

Xu Yibo
Xu Yibo is a media installation artist, head of the Art and Technology Department in the Contemporary Art Department of The Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, Director of the Bai Laboratory of Art and Technology, and Art Director of DOPAMiNE Technology Art in Shanghai. He has been focused on the hidden issues that exist within contemporary transparent society for a long time. His creative methods involve various types of media, ranging from dynamic mechanical installations, to immersive interactive images, and data visualisations. He habitually uses all relevant information that has become implanted within the scope of examination due to processes of data collection and pushes the transparency of the smart age into the field of dispute.

Yu Tongzhou
Yu Tongzhou currently holds the positions of Deputy Director, full-time teacher, and teaching assistant at the Research Institute of Media and Interaction Design at the School of Innovative Design at the China Academy of Art. A trans-reality narrator and a situationalist, Yu has received systemic education from The Shanghai Institute of Technology, the China Academy of Art, the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris, and the Royal College of Art in the United Kingdom, earning a BE in Electrical Engineering and Automation, an MA in Comprehensive Design, and an MA in Digital Direction, forming a creative aesthetic that combines art and technology.

Wang Lichen
Wang Lichen was born in Lanzhou, Gansu Province in 1989. He graduated with an undergraduate degree from the Imaging Arts Department of the City Design School of the Central Academy of Fine Arts and obtained a master’s degree in Contemporary Art Research from School of Experimental Art at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2017. His work has long been concerned with the digital mirroring of personal information and the screen-mediated creation of images. He selects images from social media to undergo cognitive resistance and transformation, thereby resisting the homogenisation of cognitive images and the mechanical solidification of the dimensions of consciousness, a process which allows him to explore the impact that the process of social atomisation has on individuals.