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Shu Lea Cheang
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shulea@mauvaiscontact.info

* Entering 2023 - chez B.K. Taitung.
* Staring research with Friends of Attention on Attention Economies, Algorithms, and Social Justice, a two year Creative Europe/European Union project.
* Screening 3 feature films - FRESH KILL(1994), I.K.U.(2000), FLUIDØ(2017) at excentricofest, Chile.

* Join Mindy Seu for Cyberfeminism Index book launch at After 8 Books, Paris.
* Exhibiting 0x9 at Think Tank: REPRODUCTIVE AGENTS at museo Madre, Naples.

* SPROUTS for QUEER LOVE, a public participatory performance with CONSTELLATIONS - Celebrating Queer Spaces that No Longer Exist, Poligonal, Berlin. Imagine yourself as a mushroom
* Public talk Queer and Trans Visions, Queer Directions symposium Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, University of Toronto.
* Workshop developing SLEEPV.05 with The Sociability of Sleep, PUBLIC LECTURE on SLEEP SERIES at McGill University, Montreal.

* Seeding cycleX, New York.
* OPEN CALL UNBORN0x9 online reading group #1 on ectogenesis, Art Laboratory Berlin.
* Technical development and rehearsal for theater project Hagay Dreaming, Taiwan.

* 一個神話的、跟一個當代處境的交集：鄭淑麗與東冬‧侯溫創作對談, published at Art Touch.
* Presenting Scifi New Queer cinema at Jester Films, Genk, Netherland.
* SADEX from 3x3x6 at Exhibition Sade - Freedom or Evil, CCCB, Barcelona
+ a talk with Quimera Rosa.
* UNBORN0x9 at exhibition Matter of Flux, Art Laboratory Berlin. [Clot review]
* UNBORN0x9 reading group ectogenesis hybrid reading performance.

* OPEN CALL UNBORN0x9 Reading Group ULTRASOUND.
* Filmmaker in focus - 68th Annual Flaherty Film Seminar – QUEER WORLD-MENDING, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York.
* UKI world premiere FILMFEST MÜNCHEN, an homage and screenings of (I.K.U., FLUIDØ, plus Sex Fish, Sex Bowl) at Uranians/Museum Brandhorst.

* Join LOST RIVER - SOUND, VISION AND MOTION - 10-DAY LAB, organized by MCASA, Mongolia. [Gogo Mongolia press]
* UNBORN0x9 with Art Laboratory Berlin Reading Group ULTRASOUND performance.
* UKI Berlin Premiere - 3 days of screenings, installation and performances, presented by LAS ART FOUNDATION at BILKAim Kranzler Eck in Berlin.
[press release] [catelogue] [FB-release1] [FB-Last Neurone]

* G for GENOM, I hear the blood running, installation at Traklhaus, Salzburg, Austria.
* Code Me, Love Me, Set Me Free: Queerdom in other-worlds, Festung Hohensalzburg, Summer Academy, Salzburg, Austria. Class creation: Queerdom in Other Worlds [poster][video]
* OK. oscar: symposium | Machines of Seeing: AI between Cultural Critique and Artistic Appropriation Summer Academy, Salzburg, Austria.
* FRESH KILL listed as one of the 100 Greatest New York City Artworks at ARTnews.

* UKI at STWST48x9, held in association with Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria. 4 screenings at Moviemento Linz. Special screening (21:00 07/09) held simutaneously with Moviemento Berlin with a remote networked Q+A session.
* UKI French premiere at Center Pompidou Vidéo et après, Paris.
* As festival consultant for Les femmes de Taïwan font des vagues held at Forum des Images, 19/09-08/10, 2023.
* Cycle Shu Lea Cheang: Crating a Scifi New Queer Cinema , l’Age d’Or Festival Cinematek, Brussels. [festival pdf]
* RED PILL at exhibition HOPE, the third chapter of TECHNO HUMANITIES, Museion, Italy.
* The Power of Art lies in Hacking Technology and Science - interview with Jana Putrie Srdic, included in Manufacturing Life Systems (Laboratory for Artificial Life), publication by Kersnikova Institute, Slovenia.

* UKI closing night at l’Age d’Or Festival Cinematek, Brussels.
* UTTER, mixed media installation, Attention After Technology, Kunsthall Trondheim, Norway. [Opening] [exhibition guidebook] [utter-presentation]
* UKI Taiwan premiere at TFAM (Taipei Fine Arts Museum).
* UKI at Woman Make Waves Festival, Taipei.
* Stage one theatrical version of Hagay Dreaming at Taipei Backstage Pool, presented by Taipei Performance Art Center, Taiwan.
[playbill] [photo-documentation] [sample video documentation (12:00)]

* A talk with 秋田祥（ノーマルスクリーン）& 四方幸子（エコゾファー）on Scifi Queer New Cinema and media art practices KuwabaraShoten 桑原商店, Tokyo.
* Screenings at Uplink Kyoto and Uplink kichijoji, Tokyo.
* Keynote talk on VIRUS BECOMING as tactical resistance, The Institute of Network Society - 中国美术学院跨媒体艺术学院 with UKI screening at Goethe Institute , Shanghai.
* UTTER as a web project at tropical papers
* UKI, Contagious & Queer program, IDFA (The International Documentary Festival Amsterdam) with a workshop Virus Becoming
* Virus Becoming at Feels like... proto-zone13 exhibition at Shedhalle, Zurich.
* FRESH KILL (1994, 35mm) screening at REEL TAIWAN held at Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies, New York University.
* UNBORN0x9 web platform with Art Laboratory Berlin Permeable Bodies presents Online reading group on SURROGACY led by Anindita Majumdar.
* UKI, an Evening with Shu Lea Cheang, MoMA, New York.

* UKI Zurich premiere with P0rny Days at Kino Riffraff in Zürich.
* UTTER web with Attention After Technology exhibition at Tropical Papers.
* Lecture presented by professor Matthew Fuller on Scifi New Queer Cinema at Goldsmiths London.
* UKI London premiere at ICA, London.
* UKI at Comrades, I love you! screening at Sinema Transtopia, Berlin.

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