Zhang Bixiao (The ElectroPoetics)
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Bixiao Zhang is a digital artist and Ph.D. candidate at RMIT University living in Naarm(Melbourne). 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 mainly engaged in public art projects and residencies in the Asia Pacific before 2020, such as residency at Hong Kong Cattle Depot Art Village (2017), Goethe Institute x Creative Fes Shenzhen (2019), and JMMK #12 media festival Indonesia (2020), Hua Niao Island International Art Festival, China (2021). These projects are interested in the influence of the digital environment’s emergent ontogenetic patterns on a specific physical site. 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, the Chinese Museum, and Federation Square (Melbourne).
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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
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2023 Group Exhibition "Through Time and Space", Chinese Museum Australia, Australian Embassy China
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2023 Group Exhibition. "Sky Light", Mission to Seafarers Victoria, Centre for Projection Art
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2022 Group Exhibition "XENNOVERSE", The Space Gallery,
San Francisco
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2022 Screening Event "New organs of perception", Composite Moving Image Agency and Media Bank, Collingwood, Victoria
2022 Screening Event "Filmic Campfire", Bunjil Place, Victoria
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2022 group exhibition "Interplay", Environmental Film Festival Australia, Footscray Community Arts
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2022 group exhibition "The humbleness and the cutaway", Blindside, Victoria
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2021 Art Festival Hua Niao Island International Art Festival #2
Shang Hai, China
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2019 group exhibition "NEWWHO LOG."
Newwho Art Museum, Shen Zhen
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2019 group exhibition "The Edge Of Time",
Art XiangShan Gallery, Shen Zhen, China
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2019 group exhibition "MEET",
GUOFENG ART Gallery, Shen Zhen, China
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2017 group exhibition "Beyond Freedom",
Cattle Depot Art Village, Hong Kong
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2016 solo exhibition “Thought on Thoughtlessness” ,
HK Youth Square, Hong Kong
Residencies
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2022~2023 Centre for Projection Art, Australia
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2022~2023 Post Humanist Art Network (Foreign Objekt, San Francisco)
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2021 Hua Niao Island Public Art Festival, China
2017 R:ead #5 , Tokyo Cultural Foundation, Hong Kong Cattle Depot Art Village
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Publications
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2023 The ElectroPoetics: performing co-created beinghoods from the electronic world, Findings, Annual Collection of Graduate Creative Arts Writing, The Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools
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2023 In praise of the humming tube: a performative review of Half Sound Half Philosophy: Aesthetics, Politics, and History of China’s sound art (Jing wang, author), Journal of Sonic Studies
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Awards
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2021 Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence and Contribution to the Program,
RMIT University
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2020 Film Festival Shortlist JMMK Film Festival #12
Galeri Pangdeng, Indonesia
Education
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Bibliography
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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
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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
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Related Experiences
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2023 Media and projection design, Weave Movement Theatre, VIC, 2023
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2021 Curatorial Internship, Contemporary Art and Social Transformation, RMIT University
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