Zhang Bixiao (The ElectroPoetics)
Bixiao Zhang (Frankie) is a digital artist and Ph.D. candidate at RMIT University living in Naarm. Her practice-led research, a fluid entity termed “The ElectroPoetics,” proposes a performative approach to digital media and algorithmic architecture driven by the intersections of Chinese Shanshui(mountain-water) Thought, feminist eco-poetics, and electro-dynamism. Her "performative Shan-shui" practice situates dynamic digital substrates for transversal modes of engagement and co-current mattering, an approach that accentuates tacit resonance as primordial modes of care. Bixiao won the 2021 Dean’s Award for her research project; Her latest projects include an artist residency at the Centre for Projection Art (Australia), a research residency at Post Humanist Art Network (San Francisco), and exhibitions at Bunjil Place, Footscray Community Arts, and Blindside Gallery (Australia).
Selected Exhibitions
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2023 Solo Exhibition "E-motion Cloud", Prahran Square, Light Up Stonnington program by Just Another Agency and Centre for Projection Art
2023 Group Exhibition "Through Time and Space", Chinese Museum Australia, Australian Embassy China
2023 Group Exhibition. "Sky Light", Mission to Seafarers Victoria, Centre for Projection Art
2022 Group Exhibition "The way we talk (about it)," Brunswick Temporary, Victoria
2022 Group Exhibition "XENNOVERSE", The Space Gallery,
San Fransisco
2022 Screening Event "New organs of perception", Composite Moving Image Agency and Media Bank, Collingwood, Victoria
2022 Screening Event "Filmic Campfire", Bunjil Place, Victoria
2022 group exhibition "Interplay", Environmental Film Festival Australia, Footscray Community Arts
2022 group exhibition "The humbleness and the cutaway", Blindside, Victoria
2021 Art Festival Hua Niao Island International Art Festival #2
Shang Hai, China
2020 Film Festival JMMK Film Festival #12
Galeri Pangdeng, Indonesia
2020 group exhibition "Goethe Institute x OCT CREATIVE FES"
B3, OCAT, Shen Zhen
2019 group exhibition "NEWWHO LOG."
Newwho Art Museum, Shen Zhen
2019 group exhibition "The Edge Of Time",
Art XiangShan Gallery, Shen Zhen, China
2019 group exhibition "MEET",
GUOFENG ART Gallery, Shen Zhen, China
2017 group exhibition "Beyond Freedom",
Cattle Depot Art Village, Hong Kong
2016 solo exhibition “Thought on Thoughtlessness” ,
HK Youth Square, Hong Kong
Residencies
2022~2023 Centre for Projection Art, Australia
2022~2023 Post Humanist Art Network (Foreign Objekt, San Fransisco)
2021 Hua Niao Island Public Art Festival, China
2018 Newwho Art Village, Shen Zhen, China
2017 R:ead #5 , Tokyo Cultural Foundation, Hong Kong Cattle Depot Art Village
Publications
2022 Findings, Annual Collection of Graduate Creative Arts Writing, The Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools
Awards
2021 Deans Award of Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence and Contribution to the Program,
RMIT University
2017 Academic Performance Award, Hong Kong Art School, Hong Kong
Bibliography
Yie,Liu. The 2nd Flower and Bird Island International Art Festival is open! The moving art museum on the sea is waiting for you to pick up the beautiful summer memories, Sohu News, July 2021
Yun, Guo. Exhibition News | The Edge of Time-2019 Bay Area Contemporary Art Exhibition, Sohu News, May 2019
L.S.Y. Salon Review | A New Observation of National Style——MEET Shenzhen Youth Art and Local Practice, Guo Feng Art Museum, April 2019
Related Experiences
2021.3 - 2021.6 Internship curator,
Contemporary Art and Social Transformation,
RMIT University
2018.7 - 2019.8 Program co-ordinator, Newwho Art Museum