This edition showcases the profiles of 30 creatives (digital artists, plastician artists, artist-engineers, filmmakers, writers and fashion designers) around the theme DIGITAL ME.
It explores the impact of China’s rapid digital transformation, the imperialism of technology and innovation in the collective utopia and the thoughts of the young generation at the dawn of a post-humanist era.
Leveraging our expertise of Chinese art, culture and marketing, we carefully select artists, curate exhibitions, develop and manage cross over collaborations. In this perspective, we developed “The Sinoscope”, a thematic selection of creatives for art and marketing professionals.
Our thematic selection of creatives are intended for professionals. For each theme we produce a paper edition limited to a few copies only.
These books are not for sale. They accompany the digital version that we leave to our customers.
This edition showcases the profiles of 30 creatives (digital artists, plastician artists, artist-engineers, filmmakers, writers and fashion designers) around the theme DIGITAL ME, and explores the impact of China’s rapid digital transformation, the imperialism of technology and innovation in the collective utopia and the thoughts of the young generation at the dawn of a post-humanist era.
In the West, we largely talk about China’s relationship with the Internet in terms of governmental censorship, control and surveillance. In fact, not long after the Chinese government opened Internet access to Chinese people at the end of the 90’s, it gradually developed the internet censorship system known as ‘the Great Firewall of China”. This gave birth to the Chinese Internet.
The Chinese Internet also called “Chinternet”, is a vibrant, diverse and intricate digital world filled with its own languages, linguistic characteristics and aesthetic codes.
In the first chapter, we present a broad selection of artists who display creative engagements with the Chinese internet and show a complex digital creativity arising from a culture of over 1.032 billion internet users in 2022. This publication features artworks from a wide range of medium including online and offline formats, that not only highlight the uniqueness of digital culture in China, but also explore global issues such as the impact of the digital on culture and society.
Chinese innovation makes the ‘Chinese Dream’ real for many
China a latecomer to the past two industrial revolutions has benefited from international research collaboration to develop a strong research and innovation capability and now has a historic opportunity to take the lead in this new round of transformative change. New information technologies such as big data, platforms, new media, cloud computing and artificial intelligence permeate almost every aspect of life today a Smart Life. As a result, the digital revolution under way has reshaped the economy, society, and governance, inspiring and questioning artists in their creative process.
What is it to be Human in a Post Human era ?
The frenetic pace of changes taking place in contemporary China as well as its hyper-digitization have significant impacts on society and especially on the psychological level. As a result, psychological health has become one of the major health concerns in China, paving the way for the use of technology for health.
In this last part we will see how artists use medical technologies, AI and neuroscience, as a medium to explore the human body, its language and its emotions in order to examine more broadly the notion of the human and its relation to technology.
Leveraging our expertise of Chinese art, culture and marketing, we carefully select artists, curate exhibitions, develop and manage cross over collaborations.
In this perspective, we developed “The Sinoscope – Printed Edition”, a thematic selection of creatives for art and marketing professionals.
Leveraging our expertise of Chinese art, culture and marketing, we carefully select artists, curate exhibitions, develop and manage cross over collaborations.
Our third edition of Sinoscope on the theme “Supernature” is about to be finalized. A new selection of artists for whom nature is either a source of inspiration or used as a creative medium.