Guo Cheng 郭城
Guo Cheng is an artist currently living and working in Shanghai. His practice mainly focuses on exploring the mutual impacts and influences between established/emerging technologies and individuals in the context of culture and social life. In recent years, his practice has dealt with themes such as the Anthropocene and second nature, digitized interobjectivity, and the ideologies behind various infrastructures. Guo Cheng's works often use humorous yet calm language to link grand issues with seemingly arbitrary objects, and to provide critical perspectives for discussion.
His recent solo exhibitions include: Almost Unmeant (Magician Space, Beijing, 2020), Down to Earth (Canton Gallery, Guangzhou, 2019). Group exhibitions include: Terminal>_ How Do We Begin? (X museum, Beijing, 2020), The Eternal Network (exhibition of Transmediale 2020, HKW, Berlin), The Process of Art: TOOLS AT WORK, (Power Station of Art, Shanghai, 2019), Notes from Pallet Town(UCCA Dune, Qinhuangdao, 2019), Open Codes. Connected Bots (Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, 2019), and others.
Guo Cheng has obtained such awards as Ars Electronica Honorary Mentions, Linz (2020); CAC://DKU Research & Creation Fellowship, Shanghai (2020); STARTS Prize Nomination, Linz (2020); the Digital Earth fellowship (2018-2019); the Special Jury Prize of Huayu Youth Award, Sanya (2018); and the Bio-Art & Design Award, The Hague (2017).
郭城1988年生于北京，现工作生活于上海。先后获得上海同济大学学士学位（2010）与英国皇家艺术学院硕士学位（2012）。他的艺术实践着眼于既有/新兴科技对社会与文化方面的冲击与影响，以及置身其中的个体与社会生活之间的关系。郭城的作品常以雕塑/装置的形式呈现，他经常使用幽默又冷峻的形式语言，将宏大议题与看似随意的日常物品相连结，为想象和讨论提供了批判性的视角。
郭城近期的个展有：“近乎无意”，魔金石空间，北京（2020）；“地气”，广州画廊，广州（2019）。群展包括：“终端>_How Do We Begin?”, X美术馆，北京（2020）；“永恒网络”，世界文化宫，柏林（2020）；“平行，似存在，未完成：行进的艺术工具”，当代艺术博物馆，上海（2019）；“真新镇日志”，UCCA 沙丘美术馆，秦皇岛（2019）；“机器人·间”，今日美术馆，北京（2019）；“开放代码.连接机器人”，新时线媒体艺术中心，上海（2019）；“追踪末日松茸”，泰康空间，北京（2019）；“魔都の鼓動”，当代艺术博物馆，熊本（2018）；“Life Time”, MU空间，埃因霍温（2017）；“时间的狂喜”，何香凝美术馆，深圳（2017）等。
郭城曾获得奥地利电子艺术奖荣誉奖，林茨（2020）、STARTS奖提名，林茨（2020），CAC://DKU研究与创作学术奖金，上海（2020），数字地球学术奖金（2018-2019）、华宇青年奖评委会特别奖，三亚（2018）、生物艺术奖，海牙（2017)。
郭城曾任上海新时线媒体艺术中心执行总监（2015-2017），荷兰自由大学环境与健康学院访问研究员（2017），并从2013年起兼职任教于上海同济大学至今。
Weihao Qiu 邱伟豪
Weihao Qiu is a California-based media artist. He has been practicing visual art creation with creative computation since completing his undergraduate study in Computer Science. Weihao works with photography, data, algorithms, data visualization, and interactive installation. His works have been exhibited in the Wolf Museum of Exploration and Innovation and the Beijing Times Art Museum.
Weihao is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Media Arts and Technology (MAT) program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research focuses on AI-based art with movement data.
邱伟豪是目前位于南加州的媒体艺术家。自完成计算机科学本科学习以来，一直致力于通过创造性计算进行视觉艺术创作。 他的热情在于摄影、数据和算法，并从中获取灵感用于创作数据可视化和交互式装置。其作品曾在The Wolf Museum of Exploration and Innovation和北京时代美术馆等地展出。
邱伟豪目前是加州大学圣巴巴拉分校媒体艺术与技术 (MAT) 项目的博士候选人。他目前的研究重点是基于人工智能和人体运动数据的艺术。
