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Shu Lea Cheang
Vitae2025
shulea@mauvaiscontact.info

* 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<l2Xl> 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.
* REBORN in CODE, 美麗佳人Art Talk, July edition.

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

* FRESH KILL launch on Criterion Channel Rediscoveries and Restorations.
* Join postcard exhibition at Joy 17, Schleifmühlgasse 17, Vienna.
* RED PILL (2021) and Virus Becoming (2022) at GLOBAL FACISMS at HKW, Berlin.
* Join exhibition On the Origins of the 21st Century or the Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography at Kunstverein in Hamburg.
* Guest speaker at NYU Visiting Artist Lectures series, New York.
* Production (september 22 - October 10) LOVER LOVE, Tucson, Arizona.

* ORTX, Solo exhibition at Contemporary Art Center (CAC), Quito, Ecuator.
* Join exhibition TOMORROWS - FOLDING, FLEXING AND EXPANDING, Palazzo del Capitanio, Verona Italy.
* 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

RECENT ARTICLES

Third Nature: On Shu Lea Cheang’s Film UKI and Nature’s Infestations of Technology by Matthew Fuller, Sage Journals 2025.
SHU LEA CHEANG Mousse 89, Fall 2024
[Art of The Interzone: Shu Lea Cheang by McKenzie Wark]
[We Ate a Sheep. We Lost the Plot: Shu Lea Cheang, Lauren Cornell, and Tiffany Sia in conversation]
The Power of Art Lies in Hacking Technology and Science, Interview with Jana Putrle Srdić for Manufacturing Life Systems, 2023.
Interview Virus Becoming: Shu Lea Cheang on Viral Love Biohack published at Makery.info
On the Basis of Face: Biometric Art as Critical Practic its History and Politics Devon Schiller, Institute of network cultures
The Digiarchitextual Body – or: Brandon’s Corporeal Virtualities, Jeppe Ugelvig, Parallax 91 Routledge
sex, prison and digital surveillance, Ewen Chardronnet for MAKERY.
Society Has Become the Biggest Panopticon, Zach Blas for Frieze.
You are. They is. *neo ultra punk*, warehouse industries.
A Network of Spores, Jenna Sutela for transmediale Berlin.
Cyphersex pioneer: Shu Lea Cheang, Jill Blackmore Evans for Exberliner, Berlin.
Bodies are packaged made to be opened , B. Ruby Rich re-published at rhizome, New York
Compost your orgasm trash, Matthew Fuller for Mute, London.
BRANDON, Yin Ho for Rhizome, New York.
interactive mythologies, Maxence Grugier for Digitalarti Paris.
Shu Lea Cheang art reseau au femininsingulier @rtek for Culture Mobile Orange Paris

WORK SAMPLE

Portfolio2025
works 2000s - 2000 to 2014
works 1990s - 1990 to 1999
dated 2030 - published at a minima in 2005