Miao Ying: A Field Guide to Ideology is the first presentation of Shanghai/New York-based artist Miao Ying in Canada.
The exhibition features new iterations of Miao Ying's two recent projects Chinternet Plus (亲特网+, 2016) and Hardcore Digital Detox (硬核数据排毒, 2018). A first-generation internet artist in China and a dual netizen of the Chinternet and the World Wide Web, Miao Ying examines official and popular Chinese internet culture thriving behind the so-called Great Firewall.
Commenting on a recent Chinese economic strategy Internet Plus—involving the rebooting of traditional industries through cloud computing, big data, and lifestyle branding—Miao Ying’s Chinternet Plus is a parodic and critical take on the cultivation of a new, counterfeit ideology complete with promotional videos, seductive imagery, logo designs, wallpaper, and concept slogan. Its companion work Hardcore Digital Detox—a caricature of #spiritualretreatinchinternet—turns focus to the proliferation of experience economy and commodification of lifestyle in a post-materialist society.
Miao Ying: A Field Guide to Ideology is a Core Exhibition of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival.
Admission to the Miao Ying: A Field Guide to Ideology exhibition is free. No advance registration is required.
Additional Public Programs: All public programs are free. Registration is required
Artist Talk with Miao Ying (in-person and online)Tuesday, March 8, 6pm ET Daniels Building (DA170), University of Toronto1 Spadina Crescent. Presented in partnership with the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design Register
Gallery Tour with Miao Ying and Yan Wu Wednesday, March 9, 2pmJustina M. Barnicke Gallery Register
For more information, visit: artmuseum.utoronto.ca/programs/
2022/02/08 - 2022/04/02
Art Museum at the University of Toronto – Justina M. Barnicke Gallery
7 Hart House Circle, Toronto, ON M5S 3H3
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