Ways of (Machine) Seeing

Digital culture enters everyone's life through screens. Ways of (Machine) Seeing gives people a space to reflect on how digital culture has changed our thinking, communication and self-awareness.

Curators

Leixinyun Huang is from Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province and the home of the giant panda.

Yifan Yang is a curator from Jiangxi Province, China. He is passionate about contemporary art and curatorial activities and has relevant experience in fine arts and visual communication design.

Artists

Ye Funa (b. 1986, Kunming) is one of the most dynamic emerging practitioners in a new group of Chinese artists looking at digital identity and visual culture. She is known for her playful but sharp style, combining internet aesthetics with physical installations to make works that speak to people who are living in an increasingly mediated world.

Xu Bing (b. 1955, Chongqing) is widely recognized as one of the leading conceptual artists of language and semiotics working today. His work has been exhibited around the world, including the National Art Museum of China, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, the British Museum, London, the Venice Biennale.

Nowadays, digital culture enters everyone's life through screens, with the image economy spreading at a speed far exceeding that of text. It has become a way of life and a cultural vocabulary, an indispensable part of our lives. However, few people think about how it is re-shaping our lives. How has digital culture quietly become a daily habit? How do contemporary artists interact in this context?

The aim of the Ways of (Machine) Seeing project is not to teach people how to learn digital culture, nor to praise or ridicule, nor to stand in a superior position to evaluate good or bad. Instead, it aims to show people how digital culture has changed our way of thinking, interpersonal communication and self-awareness, and in the era of the information explosion, to give people a space to reflect on our habits in the digital network society.

IMAGE: Ye Funa, Peepstream, 2017 - ongoing