Close Event Microcinema Screening - The Future Is Here, Are You Coming?
- November 14 @ 7:30 PM
- until 10:00 PM
The Future is Here, Are You Coming? presents recent video works by four contemporary artists from China, all at varying stages in their careers. Cao Fei (b. 1978), Lu Yang (b. 1984), Xu Zhengyue (b. 1989), and Zheng Yuan (b. 1988) all draw upon China’s unique contemporary conditions, fueled by major investments in robotics, AI technologies, a sophisticated culture of surveillance, internet and video game aesthetics, as well as an ever-expanding virtual economy. These artists locate their moving image projects at the increasingly overlapping intersections between the real and the virtual, the present and the future. Collectively, they consider the mutability of the body in relationship to technology, labor, and other forms of cultural connectivity, all within the speculative context of a China yet to come.