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Shu Lea Cheang
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* Entering 2025 - Snow crash
* Virus Becoming (2022) at FUTURE FANTASIES: INTIMACY AND FICTION, part of Hyper Functional, Ultra Healthy series at Somerset House Studios, London.

* An interview with Berlin Art Link.
* KI$$ KI$$ at Haus der Kunst, Munich. [invitation - opening 13/02/2025][introduction film]
[Shu Lea Cheang’s Art of Hacking] hyperallergic, 07/2025.
[Shu Lea Cheang Rewires the Future in Kiss Kiss Kill Kill] dcene, 08/2025.

* Hagay Dreaming at Tate Modern, part of Van Cleef & Arpels Dance Reflections, London. [A Youngish Perspective review]
* Join a panel talk with Tishan Hsu and Lawrence Lek on What are artists learning from tech and AI today? at Art Basel Hong Kong.

* Virus Becoming (2022) showing at Milano Art Week's Each and Every Gesture hosted by Istituto Svizzero and Mousse magaznine.
*In the publication of VITAMIN V - Video and the Moving Image in Contemporary Art, published by Phaidon Press.
* RADIOTOPIA goes to Taiwan. A TOOLKIT OF CARE initiative co-presented with apo33 (Nantes, France) and STWST (Linz, Austria). Signal+ camp at C-Lab Taiwan in association with Lacking Sound Festival. All Performance streamed by p-node, Paris. [Art Touch review].

* Publication of Informatics of Domination by Duke Press.
* Filming Fisting Club EP2 in Berlin Wesstudio.
* Participating at Taipei Dandai - exhibiting Uttering (2023, 36min loop) in Pulling the Plug - Taiwanese Artists Exhibition; join the talk on Global Indigeneity [FB posting] ; in the booth of TAEX (London) with Virus Becoming (2022, 6m30s).
* Special Screening - FRESH KILL at Uplink Tokyo.
* A dinner date with Tetsuo Kogawa in Tokyo. [Tetsuo Kogawa Writings]

* Showing UKI & I.K.U. in conjunction with KI$$ KI$$ exhibition at Haus der Kunst at Theatiner Filmkunst in Munich.

* Keynote "2X - My dinner date with Tetsuo Kogawa in Akihabara, Tokyo, May 17, 2025", xCoAX 2025 - 13th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, Dundee, Scotland.
* Third Nature: On Shu Lea Cheang’s Film UKI and Nature’s Infestations of Technology by Matthew Fuller, published at Sage Journals.

* Scripting LOVER LOVE for production in Tucson, Arizona, September - October 2025.

* Join exhibition GLOBAL FACISM at HKW, Berlin.
* Join postcard exhibition at Joy 17, Vienna.
* Guest speaker at NYU Visiting Artist Lectures series, New York.
* Join Das Gold Der Liebe at Kunstverein in Hamburg.
* Production (september 22 - October 10)LOVER LOVE, Tucson, Arizona.

* Solo exhibition at Contemporary Art Center (CAC), Quito, Ecuator.
* Join exhibition TOMORROWS - Speculative Aesthetics and Hybrid Identities, Palazzo del Capitanio, Verona Italy.
* Post production LOVER LOVE, Berlin.
* FISTING CLUB EP2 premieres at Porn Film Festival Berlin.

* Join exhibition, I AM NOT AN ORACLE, IMPAKT- Center for Media Culture, Utrecht, Netherlands.
* Join international Forum, GAYA 24 organized by Elug Art Corner, Taiwan.
* Opening KI$$ KI$$ at Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany.

* Join the inception event of digital cultures entitled AC|DC - Aesthetics and Critique of Digital Cultures, a research platform at Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.

SELECTED WORKS

UKI (2009-2023) a scifi viral ALT-reality cinema 2023 release [UKI 2009 - 2016]
HAGAY DREAMING (2022-) a Techno Fantasia guided theatre of Revival from Dowmong, Taiwan
SLEEP (since 2018) co-authored with Matthew Fuller
UNBORN0x9 (since 2016) with Future Baby Production initiated with Ewen Chardronnet
3x3x6 (2019) Venice Biennale 2019
GARLIC=RICHAIR (2019 remake) Rhizome.org
MYCELIUM NETWORK SOCIETY (since 2017) Post-Net nature's network
WONDERS WANDER (2017) a mobi web series for Madrid Pride 2017
FLUIDØ the movie (2017) a cypherpunk scifi movie
CRISISRUS by LAPTOPSRUS (2013) collective networked performance
SEEDS UNDERGROUND (2013) underground party for seed exchange
ACCIDENTAL LANDING (2013) accidentally the wind blows
COMPOSTING THE CITY (2012) adopt a composter
COMPOSTING THE NET (2012) biodegradable data trash
BABY WORK (2012) third part of Locker Baby Project (2001-2012)
CYCLEX (2012) make art make farm, Andes, New York
MOVINGFOREST (2008-2012) 12 hour distributed performance
LAPTOPSRUS (2009-2011) a woman live performers' network platform
AGLIOMANIA (2008-2010) garlic as post-crash currency
FISTING CLUB (2008) performance with Wendy DeLorme
MOBIOPERA (2007) collective cinema with mobilephones
BABY LOVE (2005) 2nd part of locker baby project
MILK (2004) 56K-bastard TV, Switzerland
TRAMJAM RUSH HOUR (2004 - 2007) by Mumbai Streaming Attack
TAKE2030 (2003-2006) hypermedia collective based in london
BURN (2003) burning pirated music CD
GARLIC=RICH AIR 2030 (2003) Limbo Zone, Venice Biennale 2003.
GARLIC=RICH AIR (2002) Challenge to the Fields, Creative Time, New York
KINGDOM OF PIRACY (2002-2006) curated netspace
I.K.U. (2000) Sundance Film Festival
BRANDON (1998-1999) Guggenheim Museum commission
[collection] [relaunch 2017] [netart anthology Rhizome]
BUY ONE GET ONE (1997) NTT[ICC] Biennale exhibition and collection [website recovered]

EARLY ONLINE ART

Expand, an interface (2001), commissioned by telepolis, restored in Java script (2022).
APT(2002), commissioned by xcult, shrink to fit
STOP(2002), commissioned by Amnesty International