XUE CHENGLIN

chris.c.xue@gmail.com

About

Currently lives and works in Beijing and Virginia. Xue was educated at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts and Alfred University, Department of Electronic Integrated Art. He has participated in exhibitions at Werkstadt Grazy Gallery, Vienna, Robert C. Turner Gallery, and CAFA Art Museum, Beijing among others.

Xue's work uses Arduino, processing, MaxMsp and other interactive software in synergy photography, video, printmaking, and other media. His work explores the nature of video and objective reality, focusing on the relationship between people and nature, attempting to harness interactive media to explore an invisible reality.

Artist's Statement

What is reality? When we approach the world through vision, we believe that what we see is reality, but in reality, it is not. If ancient Chinese artists used meditation to communicate with and describe the world, can we also use an alternative dialectic to access an alternative vision of reality? In my work I have attempted to use self-constructed digital interactive receptive installations to record and describe the world, visually rendering the transformation of material energy. Perhaps such a visualization of energy is in fact the manifestation of an invisible reality, the expression of an alternative emotion…

Education

• 2010–2012 M.F.A. Electronic Integrated Art, School of Art & Design, NYSCC at Alfred University
• 2005–2008 B.F.A., Photograph Department, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
• 2004–2005 Foundation, Art & Design School, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China

Exhibition

• 2017 Progress Everyday, Zhuzhong Art Museum, Beijing, China
• 2016 Up-Youth, Time Museum, Beijing, China
• 2015 Interview, Artdata Lab, Beijing, China
• 2015 B3 + Beijing Moving Image, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
• 2015 Changjiang International Photography & Video Biennale, Chongqing, China
• 2012 Travelling East, Werkstadt Grazy Gallery, Austria
• 2012 MFA Show, Turner Gallery, NY
• 2011 Werkstadt Grazy Gallery, Austria
• 2009 Icograda World Design Congress, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
• 2009 Must Be Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China
• 2009 Shuffle CCD300 Gallery, Beijing, China
• 2008 Only a Generation, Chongqing, China
• 2008 Different Perspective, Zero Field Art Center, Beijing, China
• 2008 Image Time, Fang Gallery, Beijing, China
• 2008 Position, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China

Selected Publications

• Video Sound Archive / S2 / United States
• F-Stop Magazine / #109 / United States
• Al-Tibag Magazine / Issueog / Spain
• Art Hole Magazine / #16/ United Kingdom
• Collect Art Magazine / Autumn Issue 2021 / Georgia

Work Experience