Cao Fei
Cao Fei at the Chinese Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
From Art Fag City:
A veteran documentarian at only 29, artist Cao Fei continuously blends the line between fantasy and the real. iMirror, her recent video series exploring this idea, shown at icommons and the Venice Biennial records her experience as the avatar China Tracy in Second Life, (a virtual world built and maintained by its users) and reveals the effect of the immersive environment on the artist herself, as Tracy explains that she often can not distinguish between what happens there and in real life.
These nuanced relationships develop throughout the series against the backdrop of the Second Life environment, which mirrors the successes and failures of those in the waking world. Interestingly, the film also indirectly shows Modernist ideology as a dominant force in world; even the landscape seems to espouse the belief in power of human beings to create, improve, and reshape their environment, with the aid of technology.
I spoke to Cao Fei in Croatia last month at the iCommons Summit, and we continued our conversation about her work and Creative Commons licensing over email. The following are the fruits of that conversation.
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