Gao Wenqian was born in Shandong, China. In 2013, he graduated from the China Academy of Art (Hangzhou) and in 2019 from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris.

His practice features a wide range of media, including interactive installations, video games, experimental films and sound, which he uses to explore ‘meta-narratives’, many of which involve notions of memory and temporality. His works most often take time as their starting point, and seek to examine the increasingly complex temporal rhythms imposed by technology.

By experimenting with the way in which different media are superimposed upon or cancelled out by one another, and by bringing together old technologies with new ones, he encourages the public to approach anew the multiple realities that surround them. He uses a range of methods to generate images at the intersection of the virtual and the real. His most recent project, AI Farm, features an interface between human society and the natural world. At a time when economic development is fueling an ever greater extraction of natural resources, this experiment aims to simulate a virtual digital farm using computers: artificial intelligence will be responsible for maintaining the balance of the ecosystem between flora and fauna, between soil and water. In so doing, AI Farm looks to provoke a debate: to what extent might ceding governance to algorithms enable the world can reclaim itself?

He is invited to participate at the Friche of the Palais de Tokyo from October 7 to December 20, 2024.

Useful link:

→ gaowenqian.com