Ying Miao

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In this Chinese name, the family name is Miao.
Miao Ying
Yingmiao portrait.jpg
Born1985
Shanghai
EducationChina Academy of Art, SUNY at Alfred University
Known forcontemporary art
Notable workwww.chinternetplus.com
Movementpost Internet art, contemporary art
AwardsPorsche Young Chinese Artist
Websitehttp://miaoyingstudio.com

Miao Ying (Chinese: 苗颖; pinyin: Miáo Yǐng; born 1985) is a contemporary artist and writer who is based in New York City and Shanghai, best known for her projects around the Chinese internet such as The Blind Spot (2007), Chinternet Plus (2016), and online culture inside the Great Firewall.[1][2] Miao Ying is the first generation of Chinese contemporary artists who grow up with internet, one-child policy and Chinese economic reform. Her works inhabit multiple forms including websites, installations, paintings, machine learning software, VR and videos; highlights the attempts to discuss mainstream technology and contemporary consciousness and its impact on our daily lives, along with the new modes of politics, aesthetics and consciousness created during the representation of reality through technology. She deliberately applies a thread of humor to her works and addresses her Stockholm Syndrome relationship with cultural and socio-political power, such as censorship and self-censorship, algorithmic filter bubbles, political lifestyle branding and ideologies in general.

Her most recent[when?] solo exhibitions include: Pilgrimage into Walden XII, (OVR:Pioneers, Art Basel, 2021), Miao Ying: A Field Guide to Ideology, (Art Museum at the University of Toronto, 2021)",Hardcore Digital Detox", (M+ Museum, Hong Kong, 2018) "Miao Ying：Chinternet Plus", First Look: New Art Online (New Museum, New York, 2016), "Holding a Kitchen Knife to Cut the Internet Cable" (Chinese Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2015). She has shown her works at "Facing the collector", (Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy, 2020), "The Art Happens Here: Net Art's Archival Poetics" (New Museum, New York, 2019), "Vienna Biennale 2019", (Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria, 2019), "The 12th Gwangju Biennale" (Gwangjiu, South Korea, 2018), "Art Night London", (Hayward Gallery, London, 2018), "All I know is what's on the internet" (The Photographers' Gallery, London, 2018), "Shanghai Beat" (Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan, 2018), ".com/.cn" (MoMA PS1, K11 Art Foundation, 2017), "After Us" (New Museum, K11 Art Foundation, 2017)", The New Normal—Art and China in 2017" (UCCA For Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2017), "Secret Surface" (Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2016), etc. She is the winner of Porsche Young Chinese Artist of the year 2018- 2019.

Early life and education

Miao Ying grow up in Shanghai, graduated in 2007 with a Bachelor in Fine Arts degree from the China Academy of Art's New Media Art department in Hangzhou, China, and earned a Master in Fine Arts degree in Electronic Integrated Arts from Alfred University, a statutory college of the State University of New York (SUNY) in 2009.[3]

Miao Ying is the first generation of Chinese Internet Artists.[4] The New Media Art department at CAA covers a wide range of disciplines from photography and video to animation and programming, It was the first new media art program in China where Miao Ying studied with Chinese avant-garde pioneers, Zhang Peili and Geng Jianyi 耿建翌 .

Career

Miao Ying's initial work focused on censorship on the Chinese internet through projects like The Blind Spot (2007), where the artist created a dictionary out of the words censored from google.cn.[1] She continues to create work primarily online, often using GIFs,[5] mixing screenshots and lo-fi visual elements,[4] Second Life, and drawing from the visual style of major Chinese websites like Taobao and Baidu. Her work allows users outside China to get a glimpse of life within the Great Firewall and explores in a humorous way, the visual language born from the internet and its effect on users as they interact with it. She also works with Bilibili, a video-sharing website where user's comments appear over the video in real time, as in her web-based work iPhone Garbage (2014)[2]. This technique of information overload is also a source of inspiration for Miao's practice; she uses the term naodong, Internet slang literally meaning "brain hole", derived from naobu, or "brain supplement."[4] On July 8-August 7, 2015,[6] she exhibited a series of GIFs of websites blocked in China titled "HOLDING A KITCHEN KNIFE TO CUT THE INTERNET CABLE" at the Chinese Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale.[7]

Selected exhibitions

  • ".com/.cn", co-presented by K11 Art Foundation and MoMA PS1, 2017
  • "After Us", co-presented by K11 Art Foundation and New Museum, 2017
  • "The New Normal—Art and China in 2017", Ullens Center For Contemporary Art, 2017
  • "Miao Ying: Chinternet Plus" New Museum, First Look Online, New York, 2016[8]
  • "Secret Surface", KW institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2016
  • "Content Aware", Madein Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2016[9]
  • "Chinternet How: a love story", Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, 2016.[10]
  • "HOLDING A KITCHEN KNIFE TO CUT THE INTERNET CABLE" Exhibition for the Chinese Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, 2015 [1]
  • "The Ballad of Generation Y" OCAT, Shanghai, China, 2016.[11]
  • ".gif ISLAND" V Art Center, Shanghai, China 2014.[12]

References

  1. ^ a b Zhang, Hanlu. "Hanlu Zhang on Miao Ying". artforum.com. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
  2. ^ "Artist Profile: Miao Ying". Rhizome. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
  3. ^ ARTINFO, BLOUIN (2019-02-05). "Miao Ying's "Tough Love" at Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna". BLOUIN ARTINFO International. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
  4. ^ a b c Chan, Ophelia S. (2015). "Miao Ying and the First Generation of Chinese Net Art". LEAP: The International Art Magazine of Contemporary China. 31.
  5. ^ artforum.com.cn / 文献. artforum.com.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved 2017-03-12.
  6. ^ "MIAO Ying: Holding A Kitchen Knife to Cut the Internet Cable | Asia Art Archive". www.aaa.org.hk. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
  7. ^ Holmes, Ros (2015-07-08). "Miao Ying, Net Art and the cultural hybridity of the 'Chinternet'". The Mediated Image. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
  8. ^ "Miao Ying: Chinternet Plus". www.newmuseum.org. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
  9. ^ Ying Miao (2016-05-29), official trailer of MIAO Ying solo exhibition "CONTENT AWARE", retrieved 2017-03-12
  10. ^ Schneider, Hans (2016-12-08). "'Chinternet How: A Love Story' at Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna". blouinartinfo. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
  11. ^ ARTLINKART. "The Ballad of Generation Y | exhibition | ARTLINKART | Chinese contemporary art database". www.artlinkart.com. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
  12. ^ "吉福岛 GIF ISLAND—苗颖个展YING MIAO". V ART CENTER. Retrieved 2017-03-31.

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