Zhang Bixiao (The ElectroPoetics)
Bixiao Zhang is a digital artist and PhD candidate at RMIT University living in Naarm(Melbourne). Her practice-led research, a fluid entity termed “The ElectroPoetics,” proposes a performative approach to digital media and algorithmic architecture driven by the convergence of Chinese Shanshui(mountain-water) Thought, feminist eco-poetics, and aspects of electro-dynamism. As a praxis of care, her performative digital media approach situates dynamic digital substrates for interspecies resonance and polyphonic transformative events. Bixiao won the 2021 Dean’s Award for her research project; she mainly engaged in public art projects and residencies in the Asia Pacific before 2020. Her latest projects include an artist residency at the Centre for Projection Art (Australia), a research residency at Post Humanist Art Network (San Francisco), Posthuman Lecture Theatre Hack with Contemporary Art and Social Transformation, RMIT, and Photo 2024 (International Festival of Photography), Melbourne, Australia.
Selected Exhibitions
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2024, group exhibition. “Future Anterior”, Blindside Gallery, PHOTO 2024, City of Melbourne,
2024 Public Screening. “Enlivening Decay”, Federation Square, City of Melbourne
2023, group exhibition “(Un)home, being towards space,” Collective Polyphony Festival, Testing Ground, Melbourne
2023, Art Festival. Gertrude Street Projection Festival ”Convergence,” Gertrude Street, City of Yarra
2023 Solo Exhibition "E-motion Cloud", Prahran Square, Light Up Stonnington program by Just Another Agency and Centre for Projection Art
2023 Group Exhibition "Through Time and Space", Chinese Museum Australia, Australian Embassy China
2023 Group Exhibition. "Sky Light", Mission to Seafarers Victoria, Centre for Projection Art
2022 Group Exhibition "XENNOVERSE", The Space Gallery,
San Francisco
2022 Screening Event "New organs of perception", Composite Moving Image Agency and Media Bank, Collingwood, Victoria
2022 Screening Event "Filmic Campfire", Bunjil Place, Victoria
2022 group exhibition "Interplay", Environmental Film Festival Australia, Footscray Community Arts
2022 group exhibition "The humbleness and the cutaway", Blindside, Victoria
2021 Art Festival Hua Niao Island International Art Festival #2
Shang Hai, China
2019 group exhibition "The Edge Of Time",
Art XiangShan Gallery, Shen Zhen, China
2017 group exhibition "Beyond Freedom",
Cattle Depot Art Village, Hong Kong
2016 solo exhibition “Thought on Thoughtlessness” ,
HK Youth Square, Hong Kong
Residencies
2022~2023 Centre for Projection Art, Australia
2022~2023 Post Humanist Art Network (Foreign Objekt, San Francisco)
2021 Hua Niao Island Public Art Festival, China
2017 R:ead #5 , Tokyo Cultural Foundation, Hong Kong Cattle Depot Art Village
Publications
2023 The ElectroPoetics: performing co-created beinghoods from the electronic world, Findings, Annual Collection of Graduate Creative Arts Writing, The Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools
2023 In praise of the humming tube: a performative review of Half Sound Half Philosophy: Aesthetics, Politics, and History of China’s sound art (Jing wang, author), Journal of Sonic Studies
Awards
2021 Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence and Contribution to the Program,
RMIT University
2020 Film Festival Shortlist JMMK Film Festival #12
Galeri Pangdeng, Indonesia
Education
Bibliography
Yie,Liu. The 2nd Flower and Bird Island International Art Festival is open! The moving art museum on the sea is waiting for you to pick up the beautiful summer memories, Sohu News, July 2021
Yun, Guo. Exhibition News | The Edge of Time-2019 Bay Area Contemporary Art Exhibition, Sohu News, May 2019
L.S.Y. Salon Review | A New Observation of National Style——MEET Shenzhen Youth Art and Local Practice, Guo Feng Art Museum, April 2019
Related Experiences
2023 Media and projection design, Weave Movement Theatre, VIC, 2023
2021 Curatorial Internship, Contemporary Art and Social Transformation, RMIT University