We live in the world that technologies go faster than we could catch up ourselves. Artists are trying to explore, examine and question about this these technologies.
Some tries to visualise the Internet, for examples, Lisa Jevbratt’s C5 1:1, Vuk Cosic’s War in Yu, Mark Napier’s Digital Landfill and Douglas Davis‘ The World’s First Collaborative Sentence. [...]
It is no doubt that there is a frenzy of Chinese contemporary art market at the moment although the attention was almost none before 1990s. The turning point of the Chinese art movement was Tainanmen Massacre that many artists had to flee out of country in exile.
Prior to the incident, there were three ways to [...]
Let’s say that in 1990’s is an era when art and creative industries in UK peaked since The Beatles and miniskirts. And Young British Artists (YBAs) was one significant group that proved that British art and culture were still alive.
It started off at Goldsmiths College, University of London, where most of YBAs went to. Michael [...]
The Choice Is Hers
The politics of Feminism has its own interesting journey in the past decades. From the movement of Biological Feminism to Social Construction and Post-Feminism political and social feminists, in general, seek for women’s place in the world whereas female artists find their own ways to reflect and response to the ideas of [...]
For many contemporary artists, taboos and prohibitions are the sweetest things to explore and play with. Abjection in arts goes beyond a call for an attention. It is the reflection of ego that can be found in the traces of body.
When Andres Serrono’s Piss Christ stirred up National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and caused [...]
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