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As an annual exhibition featuring works by artists from Northeast Asia, “Asia Corridor” could have the potential to delve into some rather interesting and seldom-broached issues in this region. >> Read more

Lecture 1: Turing Testing: Distinguishing Man from Machine Speakers: Korean Art Collective Shinseungback Kimyonghun and Dr. Anna Greenspan, moderated by Rebecca Catching Saturday, April 1, 2017, 2-3:30 OCAT Shanghai 30 Wen’an Lu, Jing’an District, Shanghai In 1950, computer scientist Alan Turing developed a test to determine if computers were able to exhibit intelligent behavior. A […] >> 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

From the very first moment that a “cave man” picked up a piece of flint to carve and cut meat 3.6 million years ago humans have become reliant on a growing number of tools >> Read more

On February 19, 1997, Jacky Yue left the Gobi Desert, leaving behind his job in a giant state-owned company. >> Read more

The opening pyrotechnics started out at 5 pm. From afar, thick green billows of smoke hung from the sky, drifting from PSA’s large smokestack. >> Read more

Chen Hangfeng’s practice is one which never strays far from the issues affecting modern China. All these works however, are linked by a central theme which ties which is the idea of adaptation—how we adjust to changing environments and the role tradition plays in the face of the juggernaut of modernity.
 
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Wang, the curator at Shanghai’s MoCA, not only has in the past distinguished herself with her intimate knowledge of the practices of China’s young artists, but also has the good taste to present their most interesting works. Her young artists exhibition series “Follow,” which began in 2011, has been very much worth following... >> Read more