Claudia Comte

Claudia Comte (b. 1983, Grancy) is a Swiss artist based in Basel, Switzerland. Working across site-specific installation, painting and sculpture, her practice is guided by a longstanding interest in teasing out the history and memory of biomorphic forms through traditional hand processes, industrial and machine technologies. At the heart of Comte’s installations are monumental wall paintings and serial sculptures inspired by organic patterns and morphology such as waves, sonar, cacti, and rock strata, that are playfully recomposed within fluid and immersive environments.

Fn Media Lab

Founded in Shanghai in 2019, Fn Media Lab is an international art collective bringing together artists, researchers, directors, creative programmers, and visual practitioners. The name “Fn” comes from the function key on a computer keyboard—an abbreviation of “Function”—and points to the collective’s ongoing exploration of how art can be transformed and recontextualized within public visibility and shared environments. The team works across the creation of new media art and exhibition-making, with projects often taking the form of interactive moving image, immersive environments, generative systems, and kinetic installations. Spanning concept development through to execution, the collective’s practice is rooted in experimentation with both software and hardware, while remaining attentive to the shifting landscape of digital creative tools.

semicolonC

Founded in 2018 and currently based in Shanghai, semicolonC engages in creative programming, audiovisual performance, interactive installations, generative visuals, and multimedia stage lighting installations. Committed to breaking the boundaries and exclusivity of digital art, the team seeks to transform computer-generated language from cold rational products into vehicles for creating generative visuals and sensory “ichi-go ichi-e” (a once-in-a-lifetime encounter) through the infinite variations of computer-generated art.

Its solo exhibitions include: Sound Prism +(semicolonC solo exhibition at Powerlong Museum, Shanghai, 2020); Stopped Kaleidoscope(semicolonC debut solo exhibition at Shenzhen Increment Art Museum, Shenzhen, 2022); Burning Incense (DreamVideo Video Unit at West Bund Art & Design, Shanghai, 2022). Group exhibitions participated in include: Spiral (Futian Exhibition Area, Shenzhen International Light and Shadow Art Season, Shenzhen, 2022); Constructing Images (Jebumgang Art Center, Lhasa, 2023); Sound Prism 3.34 (Yunnan Provincial Museum, Yunnan, 2023); Repaying Kindness with Kindness(Nantong Art Museum, Nantong, 2024).

Ivo Schoofs | Kinetic Humor

Movement is the essence of life. The origin of movement can be various; the result is infinite. Shapes and emotions are formed by the movement of the underlying elements. The work of Ivo Schoofs (1972) is a celebration of movement in its most natural occurrence; based on natural and physical phenomena, gravity, heat, light, friction, and wonder. The work offers the spectator(s), through large-scale audio-visual installations, an experience to return to the base of the forces of natural movement. Technology and science are made visible and sometimes, if possible, comprehensive. The black boxes are opened, the oil can be smelled, and the gears are rotating. New sensory experiences and insights are formed upon a base of nature itself.

Lei Lei

Lei Lei, Director and experimental moving-image artist, was born in Jiangxi Province, China in 1985. Since 2017, Lei has taught at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in Los Angeles (Experimental Animation Program). In 2018, Lei served as a jury member for the Academy Awards’ Animated Feature and Short Film categories. Lei’s practice is rooted in the sorting and research of found images and footage, integrating digital filming, deconstructive collage, and poetic reconfiguration to weave diverse materials—such as found footage, oral histories, internet fragments, myths, and legends—into visual essays and poetic works. Lei’s  artistic practice spans moving images, live music, and theater. Lei Lei’s independent films have been repeatedly selected for major international film festivals including Berlin, Rotterdam, Melbourne, and Hong Kong, winning multiple awards.

Liu Yi

Professor, artist, public art curator, founder of “Bird Song Radio,” and the 956th speaker of Yixi. Liu Yi is the Director of the Public Art and Design Lab at Shanghai Institute of Innovation and Creative Design; Visiting Professor at the College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University; Council Member of Shanghai Creative Design Workers Association. Through creations in painting, sculpture, installation, video, and performance, Liu explores themes and relationships such as body and space, spirit and matter, individual and public, and the locality versus abstraction of culture. Liu is also interested in the narrative relationship between digital media, materiality, and creative themes, producing numerous two-dimensional or spatial artworks contextualized in daily life and social scenes.

Li Zhongwei

Li Zhongwei is Associate Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Founder and Creative Director of Lab D+H SH. Recipient of the title “Top Ten Outstanding Young Landscape Architects in Shanghai”; Li serves as a global judge for the WLA Awards. With 13 years of experience in landscape planning and design, Li practiced at several international avant-garde firms after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania. In recent years, projects led by his team have won over 10 international awards, including the 2020 American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) National Award. He has directed or participated in more than 30 landmark public construction projects.

Shen Lieyi

Born in Hangzhou in 1969, Shen Lieyi is currently Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the School of Sculpture and Public Art, China Academy of Art. Shen also serves as a member of the Academic Committee of Shanghai Urban Space Art Season, Standing Director of the Chinese Sculpture Institute, and Vice President of the Zhejiang Sculpture Institute. Shen Lieyi is an expert in integrating natural and daily elements into the material, space and concept of sculpture arts and turning personal experience into the artistic expression of life insights, and he integrates his plain worship and love of the natural world into the consciousness of life. His creation is invariably intertwined with the universe harmoniously.

Shan Xiaoming

Shan Xiaoming is a symbol artist born in 1991 and a graduate of Central Saint Martins, London. His practice spans painting, installation, sculpture, spatial work, and fashion, constructing a visual language around consciousness, nature, and states of life through his original “energy symbol system.”He initiated the art IP ENERTEN EVERYWHERE, proposing the concept that “everything can be symbolic,” bringing art into everyday life. He has received honors including the Central Saint Martins Press Show Special Creative Award (the only Chinese recipient), Vogue Italia Top 10 Designers of the Year, and Robb Report Design Pioneer of the Year. His works have been exhibited at institutions such as PSA and Powerlong Museum, collected by museums and public spaces, and featured in collaborations with international brands including Galeries Lafayette, PINKO, and MGM.

Wade and Leta

Wade and Leta (Wade Jeffree and Leta Sobierajski) are a collaborative artistic duo based in New York, USA. Their multidisciplinary practice spans sculpture, painting, installation, and spatial design, characterized by bold graphic clarity and an unwavering spirit of radical optimism. Their shared life fuels an interconnected practice where color, form, and experience move freely between daily living and creative output. Together, they continue to explore how color, form, and space can merge and bring music to your eyes.

Wang Tianxin

Born in 1986, currently living and working in Shanghai. His art spans installation, painting, video, and theatrical performance. He specializes in using media such as image reconstruction, intelligent algorithmic editing systems, and automated theatrical machines to explore and reflect on the imagined boundaries between media technology, electronic theater, and social sculpture. His works consistently contemplate how technology shapes and influences human ways of being and existential states, as well as the worrying future under the shadow of modernity’s passing.

Wang Tianxin has held solo exhibitions at chi K11 Art Museum (Shanghai) and Modern Art Museum (Shanghai), and exhibited at venues including Power Station of Art (Shanghai), CAFA Art Museum (Beijing), Shanghai Urban Space Art Season, TAG Art Museum (Qingdao), Aurora Museum (Shanghai), Jinan Art Museum, Times Art Museum, Paichai University (South Korea), Kochi University (Japan), and Korean Cultural Center.

His public artworks have been commissioned or permanently collected by entities including Lujiazui Riverside (Shanghai), Fuxing Island (Shanghai), Liangrang Art District, World Internet Conference, Elephant Art District (Hefei), Turing Square (Shanghai), Yingyue Lane (Wuxi), and Chao Le City (Yanguan).

Organizer: Longwan District People's Government, Wenzhou City

Co-Organizers: Wenzhou Longwan District Comprehensive Administrative Law Enforcement Bureau, 

Wenzhou Eye Health Industry Investment and Construction Co., Ltd., Wenzhou EYE Valley Town Operation and Management Co., Ltd.

Curation：UCCA Lab

Artists (Listed in alphabetical order by surname):

semicolonC, Fn Media Lab, Claudia Comte, Lei Lei, Li Zhongwei, Liu Yi, Shan Xiaoming, Shen Lieyi, Wang Tianxin, Wade and Leta, Ivo Schoofs (Kinetic Humor)

Project Producer

Caroline Wu

Art Director

Shirley Liu

Chief Curator

Yoojin Tang

Executive Producer

Tiana Tian  

Executive Coordinator

Dou Ding

Technical Team

Wang Shangyuan, Shi Yao

Communications and Events Team

Li Fanqi, Zhu Xiaojing, Fang Xiaoran, Yang Jayun

Operations Coordination​

Zhang Yang

Merchandise Development Team

YangXin, Zhengzhou Xiangxiang Cultural and Creative Co., Ltd.

Visual Application and Material Design

Transwhite Studio(Yu Qiongjie, Xia Yuanyuan, Wang Keqing, Ma Haoming), Li Sihui, Xiong Haihui

Project Construction

Shanghai Wang Jianghao Sculpture Art Studio, Makernet Technology (SHENZHEN) Co., Ltd.

Operational Cooperation

Shanghai Hello Puhui Technology Co., Ltd.

Public Programs Partners (Listed in alphabetical order by surname)

#fff Food Design Studio, abC, BLC Cycling Club, Brigitte Van Hagen, Cai Shuang, Chen Ming, DONG JING, Wen Zhou Ge You Hui, Jiang Ruichao, Kévin Savary, UnoccupiedD, lululemon, UCCA Kids, Victorine Pasman, Wang Zongsheng, Wenzhou Bike Development Association, Jiesheng Bike, LAB BIKE, Artbirds Union, Dream Creating Carriage

Acknowledgments

Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Shanghai