b. 1990, Yancheng, China
Lives and works in Shanghai, China
Shi Zheng’s artistic creations range from audio-visual installations, digital music and live performance, demonstrating the artist’s ongoing interest in simulation and “machine vision”. Shi further embodies his reflection on the philosophy of technology, digital voyage and “latent time” by extending the audience’s visual and audio experience.
Shi Zheng holds a B.A. from China Academy of Art and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His individual and cooperated works have been presented in a wide range of museums, art institutions and media art festivals home and abroad, including TANK Shanghai, Sifang Art Museum, MOCA Yinchuan, Sound Art China, FILE Electronic Language International Festival, Ars Electronica, Institute of Contemporary Arts London, Castello di Rivara, The Lumen Prize, Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum and OCT Contemporary Art Terminal Shenzhen.
After removing the images and texts from the front page of The New York Times, Shi Zheng trains an Artificial Neural Network to learn the data set consisting of lines between the columns. In the generated video, shifting and superposing orderly, these lines appear and diminish to compose a body that continually grows. They used to act as "the silhouette" that divides information, event, and time in their assigned positions, while the video exploring "the latent space" delineates interleaving time by tracing the varying boundary and framework.