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Insects are more than creepy-crawly bugs; they are also a central reference point of so much of network culture, from talk of hive minds and distributed networks to algorithms that function like ant colonies; some refer to our cognitive capitalist practices as “pollen society”. >> Read more

Shanghai, September 2017 – ShanghART M50 is pleased to present a solo show by acclaimed Singapore artist and photographer Robert Zhao Renhui, >> Read more

Patty Chang, Feng Chen, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Shanghai Seeds… >> Read more

In their project “Stone” Korean artists Shin Seung Back and Kim Yong Hun examine this persistent human interest in “self-improvement” through technological prostheses—applying this theory of “perception extension” to something as inert as a volcanic rock. >> Read more

Dressed in casual clothing, Katsuki Nogami’s Namada Taro citizens move and act like humans; >> Read more

Classical humanist thought begins from the womb, conceptualizing it as a magical incubator of brilliance. >> Read more

For a world that we cannot perceive, what does it matter whether it exists or not? Perhaps you can further demonstrate that, though an autonomous world is imperceptible, it can still think for us. Yet in this sense, such a world becomes one stipulated by human thought, and ultimately cannot escape the fundamental relationship between thinking and being. >> Read more

(中文) 2016年5月28日，法国当代艺术家塔提亚娜·图薇（ Tatiana Trouvé，“杜尚奖”获得者）与劳拉·普罗沃斯特（Laure Prouvost，“特纳奖”获得者）双个展在北京红砖美术馆开幕。 >> Read more

The plain gesture of juxtaposing a minor group of Guangzhou cosplay enthusiasts with cranes at construction sites and migrant workers doesn’t really distill the essence either of societal change in contemporary China or “the numbing state of modernity” >> Read more

Cultural Spiral of the Bio-mechanical Age: Cyborg, Posthumanism and Embodiment —— Tian Xiaolei’s Solo Exhibition >> Read more