aaajiao

Active online as a media artist, blogger, activist and programmer, aaajiao is the virtual persona of Shanghai- and Berlin- artist Xu Wenkai. Born in 1984—the title of George Orwell’s classic allegorical novel— and in one of China’s oldest cities, Xi’an, aaajiao’s art and works are marked by a strong dystopian awareness, literati spirits and sophistication. Many of aaajiao’s works speak to new thinkings, controversies and phenomenon around the Internet, with specific projects focusing on the processing of data, the blogsphere and China’s Great Fire Wall. aaajiao’s recent projects extend his practice to various disciplines (among them, architecture, topography, and design) to capture the pulse of the young generation consuming cyber technology and living in social media.

Chando Ao

Chando Ao was born in Fengdu, China, a city that was submerged when the Three Gorges Dam was constructed when he was 13. He later moved to Chongqing, China, Sydney, Australia, Boston, and New York. This immigrant experience greatly influenced his perception of the world and his art practice: When language becomes a barrier, seek alternative ways to express; when must leave your hometown, carry it with you always.

Ao's practice navigates between two extremes: his solo endeavors in paintings and a complex, open system, often involving extensive collaborations with the external world through robots, software, unique materials, and everyday goods. This system is designed to engage visitors—inviting them to touch, embrace, climb, and even juggle with the work. These two modes of creation mirror his dual states as an individual: introspectively sensing himself and outwardly conveying a concise, fundamental sensory experience without the aid of language or text. Now based in New York, Ao graduated from Tufts University + School of Museum of Fine Arts in 2016 and received The Chan Sculpture Award in 2015. He had solo exhibitions with Postmasters Gallery in New York in 2021- 2022 and C5CNM in Beijing in 2024. His recent institution exhibitions include the Thoma Foundation (Santa Fe, 2022-2023), TAG Art Museum (Qingdao, 2022), and X Museum Triennial (Beijing, 2019). His solo exhibitions have been covered by Jerry Saltz for New York Magazine and Johanna Fateman for New Yorker; other press includes The Brooklyn Rail, Art Forum, Ocula, Hyperallergic, and more.

Hyunseon Kang

Hyunseon Kang is a media artist based in Seoul. Kang's works explore the uncanny relationship among psychological, virtual, and physical spaces. Often referencing pop culture and video games, her humorous approach is critical to infrastructures of reality that surround us. Kang examines the possibility of multi-subjectivities by staging the digital avatar named Lucy as her medium in the specific time-spatial contexts, created by digital media such as video, live simulation, and VR. The artist investigates what is inherent in the viewer’s perspective, how it is constituted, and how multi-spatiality affects individuals, communities, and institutions.

Kelvin Kyung Kun Park

Kelvin Kyung Kun Park is a Seoul based artist that works primarily in the medium of film & video, photography, and installation. Park’s works often deal with the subject of the unconscious and its relations with technology and subjectivity of individuals and the collective. His award-winning films and installations have been shown at various international venues such as Busan International Film Festival, Berlinale, HotDocs, New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Taipei Biennale, and Sharjah Biennale. Park is the winner of Leeum Samsung Museum of Art’s Art Spectrum award, Busan Film Festival’s best documentary award, and a nominee for MMCA Korea Artist Prize and BMW Art Journey as well as being selected for Chanel x Frieze Now & Next. His recent major solo exhibitions include When Tigers Used to Smoke (2022) at OCAT Museum, Shanghai, Double Mirror (2020) at the Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai, China.

Mark Dorf

Mark Dorf is a New York-based artist whose multifaceted practice encompasses photography, video, digital media, and sculpture. Engaging collaboratively with ecologists and technologists, Dorf delves into perceptions and interactions with what is commonly termed “Nature,” as well as themes of urbanism, design, and virtual environments. Rather than viewing these subjects as categorically separate, Dorf presents their entanglement and integration as part of a dynamic and inclusive planetary ecology.

His works have been exhibited internationally at notable galleries and museums including The Museum für Gestaltung (Zurich, CH), The Center for Maine Contemporary Art (Rockport, ME), Foam Photography Museum (Amsterdam, NL), Frankfurter Kunstverein (Frankfurt, DE), The Lima Museum of Contemporary Art (Lima, PE), bitforms Gallery (New York, NY), and Postmasters Gallery (New York, NY), among others. Dorf’s films have been featured on dis.art and VDrome.org.

His work is included in the collections of the Foam Photography Museum, the Fidelity Investments Collection, and the Deutsche Bank Collection, amongst many others. Additionally, Dorf’s artist books are included in the collections of The Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library at Yale University, and the Avery Library at Columbia University.

Yi Xin Tong

Tong acts covertly and makes noise. He creates objects, moving images and line works, to explore wilderness and absurdity, to understand the world he is in, and to interfere with reason and rules. Tong’s work has been exhibited at De Liceiras, Porto (2024), CANDICE MADEY, New York (2024); Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai (2022), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2022); Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson (2022); Today Art Museum, Beijing (2022); Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2020); Long March Space, Beijing (2019/2016); chi K11 Museum, Shanghai (2019); National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung (2015). In 2021, he was the winner of the first Choi Foundation Prize for Contemporary Art.