Brief History of Technology and Art in China

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China
Curator: Li Zhenhua
https://www.cqartmuseum.cn/

Exhibited Artwork

Speculative Evolution

Mobile App as Interface for Net-Based Installations

Due to the threatening predictions of species extinction and global warming, scientists and farmers are increasingly relying on technologies such as genetic engineering, synthetic biology and machine learning. Speculative Evolution imagines a speculative ecosystem 30 years from now, where artificial intelligence and biotechnologies work together to create and optimize species to withstand the increasingly more …

Mesh Festival, Basel

re:publica, Berlin

Kunstbezirk, Stuttgart

YANTO - yaw and not tip over

Mobile App as Interface for Interactive Installations

Due to accelerating acidification and industrial aquafarming, our ocean is becoming increasingly uninhabitable. Aquaculture workers and scientists now rely on genetic engineering, synthetic biology, and machine learning as potential tools to mitigate climate change. YANTO - yaw and not tip over imagines a speculative aquaculture farm 30 years from now, where artificial intelligence creates synthetic more …

Screenshot, YANTO

Chengdu Biennale

HEK, Basel

Used to Be My Home Too

Real-time cartography

This experiment shows photos of animals, fungi and plants that are uploaded right now by unknown users to iNaturalist.org via mobile phone. On Google Earth, these are mapped at the exact location where they were photographed. In addition, taxonomically similar species that occurred in the same country and became extinct within the last 30 years are automatically added in real time via RedList.org. Used more …

OnCurating Project Space, Zurich

HEK, Basel

Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich

Time to Nest Time to Migrate

Mobile App as Interface for Interactive Installations

With this 360° New Media Art Mobile VR App Time to Nest Time to Migrate you fly through your own inner world. What happens in there? Bacteria, cells, fungi, parasites, phages, protists, prions, viruses communicate. Do they determine what we are? Not scientific, but rather fake scientific, philosophical and emergency poetically. (We know that we know nothing, we know). A little dance of life and more …

HEK, Basel

MoCAUP, Shenzhen

IN-SONORA, Madrid

Friends

Mobile App as Interface for Net-Based Installations

In December 2018, NVIDIA shook the world by showing how easily Artificial Intelligence can create ultra-realistic portraits of people who do not exist. Friends leverages the results of this research and offers an immersive experience experimenting with the massive amount of AI-generated content. Using a mobile phone, countless faces are generated and stare at the user from all directions. All more …

PRE livepool, Hangzhou

Screenshot, Mobile App

HEK, Basel