as an artist with today's technical
possibility
as a human i have so much resource
to communicate and to questioning
or even to just be noticed
to make some kind of mark
so
i think this is a very exciting time
2005 i touched a computer and learned
how to type and i got completely
involved with internet
so by 2007 i was invited for the
documentary i decided i'm not going to
present my work
a painting or sculpture but rather to do
something different
so i use the internet to organize doing
more people involved or audience
involved and communicate in much larger
scale
and has some touch with reality
my architecture work my curatorial work
and my artworks
so it's all
concentrated in one that is about
how we express our feeling about today
and how we use historical meanings or
structures of our knowledge in today's
new society
after that we did a lot of internet
related works such as a sichuan
earthquake
so many students lost their lives so we
did the investigation on that it's very
painful but finally we locate
5200 students name
with all the
difficulty
the police and the government trying to
stop us and arrest us over 40 times
and many cases has been beaten
but the result is enormous
on the internet
so i started to realize how to use
internet to become more socially
involved
have a communication and expression
directly to the society
in the cultural revolution every
people's every sentence every mark has
been checked by authority
so many kids only because they derive
certain sense
which can be interpreted by the
political authority to send his dangers
has been punished or their family be
punished you can see freely exchange of
information and ideas have become the
most
dangerous to this authoritarian society
or dictatorships that is a
fact in china
and as a result i have been
severely punished in many many ways
you cannot see
most popular or mainstream internet
service in china they're all being
shuttered off through special technical
support we still can
so-called clam over the grid firewall to
get some information and communicate
but that also makes this whole process
makes the effort
become meaningful
because that
is not only
art or culture but really relate to our
real life
and relate to
millions of young people's future
as artists i have been
trained myself
doing
drawings or make some kind of mark
since i i can remember but when i fixing
a blank surface of this computer
every time i'm so insecure
i'm so
empty in my mind i don't know what to
draw why i have to draw something you
know it's scary but i think the most
technology doesn't really offer to
encourage people to be involved to act
to not to be shy or not to be ashamed of
i think it's beautiful so as artists i
think the most satisfied it's not aspect
you know that's called freedom of speech
that means you can have
ideas which is very private which is not
so sophisticated or not even going to be
popular but still you can stand behind
it
think about life you know where we come
from why we have to live and how we
see this so-called real world although
since we cannot resolve it in our
rationality or so-called logic so it's
very interesting when we concrete some
possibility for people have a moment to
enjoy or even moment questioning there
being a good effort
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