CAC:// DKU 2020 R&C Fellowship | Open Studio: Wind Verification
Open Studio Agenda
17:00 – 17:30
Artist Talk
18:00 – 19:00
Project Presentation
CAC is pleased to annonce that GUO Cheng, winner of the CAC://DKU 2020 Research/Creation Fellowship will present his new project Wind Verification, which is the fruition of the 3-month residency program, on Friday, March 12 at CAC, along with an Artist Talk by GUO Cheng. The project as one of the participating artworks of the current exhibition “We=Link: Sideways” at CAC will remain on view through May 23, 2021.
Wind Verification is a research-creation project based on the anthropological field of social media networks in the context of mass surveillance, which attempts to reproduce the observable but invisible object – wind – in the videos uploaded by social network users in an indoor physical space. The entire installation consists of a flag, a fan set, a screen and a control system. The selected short videos with flags are fed to the installation, the control system of installation manipulates the flag swinging matches the video, in an attempt to recreate the state of the wind in the digital footage in the physical world. Wind Verification aims to show how the emergence and popularity of short video social platforms such as TikTok and Kwai has led to a subversive shift in the sense that the grassroots can directly participate in the struggle for power to discourse, and the possibilities of bottom-up data analysis and processing. It is also a metaphor for the current era: the digital reality is becoming true reality. The development of Computer Vision algorithm for the project is supported by Weihao Qiu.
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GUO Cheng
GUO Cheng (b.1988, Beijing), currently lives and works in Shanghai. He was graduated from MA Design Products at Royal College of Art (London, UK) and obtained his BE in Industrial Design at Tongji University (Shanghai, China). His practice mainly focuses on exploring the interrelation between mainstream/emerging technologies and individuals under the context of culture and social life.
His recent exhibitions include: Almost Unmeant, Magician Space, Beijing, China (solo show, 2020), ‘Down to Eearth’, Canton Gallery (solo show, 2019), Terminal>_ How Do We Begin?, X museum, Beijing(2020), The Eternal Network (exhibition of Transmediale 2020), HKW, Berlin, Germany (2020), ‘The Process of Art: TOOLS AT WORK’, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China (2019), ‘Notes from Pallet Town’, UCCA Dune, Qinhuangdao, China (2019); ‘Deja vu’, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China (2019); ‘Open Codes. Connected Bots’, Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, China (2019); ‘Free Panorama’, Pingshan Culture Center, Shenzhen, China (2019); ‘Tracing the Mushroom at the End of the World’, Taikang Space, Beijing, China (2019); ‘Shanghai Beat’, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan (2018); ‘Machines Are Not Alone: A Mechanic Trilogy’, Chronus Art Center, Shanghai (2018); ‘Life Time’, Mu Art Space, Eindhoven (2017); ‘The Ecstasy of Time’, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen (2017) etc.
He obtained Ars Electronica Honorary Mentions (2020), the Digital Earth fellowship (2018-2019), the Special Jury Prize of Huayu Youth Award (Sanya, 2018), and the BADaward (The Hague, 2017). His work ‘An Apophanous Overfitting'(a part of the collective project Tulip Pyramid – A Project of Copy and Identity) won Gijs Bakker Awards(The Netherlands, 2016).
GUO Cheng worked as Executive Director at Chronus Art Center, the visiting researcher at Dept. Environment & Health, Vrije University (Amsterdam) and has been serving as Visiting Lecturer at College of Design and Innovation(Tongji University, Shanghai) since 2013.
