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Cao Fei

"Whose Utopia?" (2006)

"Whose Utopia?" (2006)

RMB City (2007)

Cao Fei uses multimedia, such as film, photography and digital media to present the social and cultural transformation of Chinese in today's society.  Her works explore the Chinese internet culture and exploring the boundary between virtual and reality. In her video "Whose Utopia?"(2006), she presents the personal fantasies of a group of low education level's workers at a lighting factory. By the comparison between the industrial background and the worker's performance, the work questions our current reality and criticizes the rapid development in China. In "RMB City" (2007), Cao Fei spent several years to develop a virtual city in an online role-playing game called "Second Life", the city life is referenced by our social reality, which is overabundant symbols of a country's future (the slogans and architectural icons), it eventually turns into the cityscape as it appears in the image. 

曹斐利用多媒體的藝術形式來展現中國人在當今社會中的社會文化轉型。 她的作品探索中國的互聯網文化，探索虛擬與現實之間的界限。在她的視頻“誰的烏托邦？”（2006年）中，她展示了一群照明工廠的低教育水平工人的個人幻想。在“人民幣城市”（2007）中，曹斐花了幾年的時間在一個名為“第二人生”的在線角色扮演遊戲中開發了一個虛擬城市，虛擬城市中的生活是參考著我們當今社會情景，它最終變成了圖像中出現的城市景觀。 

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