Cao Fei Fills 4 Floors at Kunstmuseum Basel With 10 Installations on A.I.-Age Humanity
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Updated · The New York Times · Jun 18
Cao Fei Fills 4 Floors at Kunstmuseum Basel With 10 Installations on A.I.-Age Humanity
2 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jun 18
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Kunstmuseum Basel’s Gegenwart branch has given all four floors to Cao Fei through Oct. 11 for a nearly 30-year survey built around 10 immersive installations and environments.
The 48-year-old Chinese artist uses film, video, virtual reality and installation to examine how globalization, the internet and A.I.-era technology reshape human life in China and beyond.
Basel brings together key works including “Whose Utopia?” from 2006, set in a lightbulb factory, and “RMB City,” her 2007-2011 virtual metropolis on Second Life.
A new avatar called Oz extends that long-running interest in digital identity, while a separate Prada Foundation project in Milan, “Dash,” looks at technology’s effects on farming in China and Southeast Asia.